Newswire #47 – 26th Nov. 2015

It’s time for your latest weekly Anime Limited Newswire. This week we’re going to expanding on details in relation to our Terror In Resonance Ultimate Edition release and we have some other notes with upcoming releases to touch on as well.

GENERAL NEWS/NOTES

~ First of all a big thanks to everyone who came out to MCM Birmingham Comic Con this past weekend and stopped by the Anime Limited stand. It was great to speak to so many of you. We hope you had a fun weekend at the event. It’s hard to believe but MCM Birmingham was actually the last event we (Anime Limited) are at this year. Expect to see some details about what events in 2016 we’ll be at surfacing soon.

~ The time has nearly arrived! The original Mobile Suit Gundam series arrives in the UK for the first this Monday with the release of our Part 1 Blu-ray! If you haven’t already you can pre-order your copy today, get the details on our release HERE.

We also want to take a moment to say that if you’re wanting to get your hands on the version with the Collector’s Box to store both parts, you’ll want to think about doing it sooner rather than later. We officially have no more stock of this in our warehouse and all units have been sent to retailers so this Limited Edition version is already out-of-print. We want to stress that the version with the box is the only version that will be available on day on release, but once that stock has been exhausted there is no more of it and the reprint of Part 1 will be the amaray case on its own.

 

~ Last week in the Newswire we revealed what you can expect from our Terror In Resonance Ultimate Edition release.

The SRP for this release is £99.99, so you can expect the price to get lower than that – for example the Amazon UK listing is (at time of writing) £91.21 and we expect that fluctuate in the run up to release. As we mentioned last week our Ultimate Edition includes the entire series on both Blu-ray and DVD and comes with a 100 page hard back book. Today it’s the 100 page book we want to put the focus on specifically. Last week we referred to it as an Art Book, but there really is so much more to the book than just the wonderful art from the series and we want to make sure you’re fully aware of this.

To give full context, in Japan the series was released over 6 volumes, each coming with a small booklet containing art and written content, such as interviews and background information. When this came to our attention we instantly thought it would be great to get that content for our release as it would be a shame for it to never see the light of day in English. And we did just that, in fact we managed to get access to so much of the content we were seeking that this is what ultimately, no pun intended, help make this into an Ultimate Edition release.

We decided to make our planned book into a hard back book, which is similar size to the book included in our Gurren Lagann Ultimate Edition, to really help show off everything that will be included. The book will include sections showcasing character art, concept art, key frames from the animation and background art. But that’s not all as there is also an interview with Scriptwriters Hiroshi Seko, Jun Kumagia and Kenta Ihara, an interview with the Art Director Hidetoshi Kaneko, an interview with Animation Producer Manabu Otsuka & Assistant Director Yuzuru Tachikawa, an interview with the Chracter Designer & Chief Animation Director Kazuto Nakazawa and an interview with Director Shinichiro Watanabe. And all of that is contained in our 100 page hard back book.

Plus when you factor in the on-disc extras include episode commentaries, an in depth conversation with the cast and the textless opening and closing title sequences, we’ve really gone all out to make this as packed a release as possible.

For those of you who like to get in early with pre-orders, the Ultimate Edition of Terror In Resonance is listed on Amazon UK HERE.

~ Some of you have likely already discovered this, but there has been a date shift of Sword Art Online II: Part 2 by a few weeks and is now set for release on 28th December. We apologise for this but unfortunately this was unavoidable.

~ Some of you may recall that last year that our AllTheAnime.com web shop we had some special offers in the month of December. Well we’re happy to confirm that we will be having special offers this December too as it’s the return of Anime Limited’s ’12 Days of Christmas 1-Day Deals’. There will be set number of copies on special offer price each day (while stock lasts) and once the allocation has gone it will show up as sold out. There will be a different offer each so be sure to keep an eye out for great deals.The deals will run between 1st – 12th December beginning at 9am each day at our AllTheAnime.com web shop.

Please note all the 1-Day deals are available for UK & Ireland Residents Only.

Plus during this period be sure to keep an eye here on our blog as we’ll be making some special announcements and we’ll be holding competitions on our Facebook and Twitter pages too.

~ For those of you who enjoy our podcast, the next episode is being recorded next week!

SIMULCAST UPDATE

Here’s our lineup of titles this season:

Seraph Of The End Vampire Reign (2nd Season) – Simulcasting at Viewster.com
K: Return of Kings – Simulcast at Viewster.com
Comet Lucifer – Simulcasting at Viewster.com
The final episode of Blood Blockade Battlefront – Simulcasting at Viewster.com

Seraph Of The End: Vampire Reign (2nd Season) episode 7 can be watched HERE.

Episode 8 of K: Return Of Kings can be watched HERE

Episode 8 of Comet Lucifer can be watched HERE

The final episode of Blood Blockade Battlefront is available to watch at Viewster HERE.

REPLACEMENT UPDATE

Durarara!! Limited Edition

The next round of confirmation messages will be sent by the end of this coming week/early next week.

Anyone who has applied for replacement discs over the past weeks and has yet to have a response can expect one soon.

If you’ve yet to apply for discs please follow the steps of filling out the survey AND emailing us your proof of purchase. (Simply doing one of the two steps is not enough.) We ask that applicants awaiting for confirmation message please wait a little longer. If you haven’t received a confirmation message within to weeks of applying please email Jeremy on Jeremy@AllTheAnime.com – he’ll get back to you as quickly as we can about this.

If you have questions or concerns about your replacement request please feel free to email Jeremy on Jeremy@AllTheAnime.com. If you have yet to apply for replacement discs please follow all the guidelines HERE.

 

Kill la Kill Part 1 [for units purchased at MCM London Comic Con in October 2014 only]

NOTE: This only applies to units purchased at MCM London Comic Con in October 2014. (Following the event the products general retail release was delayed and the error of the English dub being out of sync by 0.4 seconds during one of the episodes was corrected.)

We are working to get these out as quickly as possible. The latest wave are being sent tomorrow (Wednesday 28th October) so if you haven’t had yours already you can expect it any day now.

To apply for a replacement we ask that everyone who purchased this at MCM London Comic Con in October 2014 please do the following:

• Send an email with the subject “KLK1 Replacement – MCM October 2014” to Jeremy@AllTheAnime.com
• In this email please include:
  – You full name (as it would be written on a parcel being posted to you)
  – You full postal address
  – a photo of your copy of Kill la Kill Part 1.

Due to all of Team Anime Limited being in London for MCM Comic Con from tomorrow through Monday, Jeremy will respond to requests for this, confirming that you replacement request has been logged in, by mid-next week at the latest. Either way you can expect your replacement to sent to you before the end of October.

NOTE: We appreciate that some people may have sent emails to other Anime Limited personnel regarding wanting a replacement, but due to the length of time that has passed we ask that everyone who will have previous enquired about a replacement please send a new message to Jeremy. We apologise for any inconvenience, but this is to ensure we can fulfil these as quickly as possible.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

We have officially completed our 2015 events lineup! We’re busy planning our 2016 event lineup and as soon as we can share information we’ll be sure to do so.

RELEASE CALENDAR

With all of the above in mind, here is the most up-to-date version of our release schedule focusing on the remainder of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2015

OUT NOW: Tokyo Ghoul Season 1 (Limited Edition Blu-ray, DVD)
OUT NOW: Fate/kaleid liner Prisima Illya (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, DVD)
OUT NOW: Baccano! (Limited Edition Blu-ray)
OUT NOW: Tokyo Ghoul Season 1 (Standard Edition Blu-ray)

30th November: Mobile Suit Gundam: Part 1 of 2 (Blu-ray)

7th December: Full Metal Panic Ultimate Edition [Season 1 + Fumoffu + The Second Raid] (Blu-ray)
7th December: Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya (Standard DVD)

14th December: Samurai Flamenco: Part 1 (Blu-ray **subtitle-only release**)

28th December: Sword Art Online II: Part 2 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD combi, DVD)

Q1 2016

11th January: Ping Pong (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD set)

25th January: Fuse – Memoirs of a Huntress (Limited Collector’s Blu-ray+DVD set, Standard DVD)
25th January: Noein (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray)
25th January: Expelled From Paradise (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD set, Standard DVD)

15th February: Durarara!! x2 Shou (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, Standard DVD)

22nd February: Letter To Momo (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD set, Standard DVD)

29th February: Selector Infected WIXOSS (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, Standard DVD)
29th February: Tokyo ESP (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, Standard DVD)*
29th February: Lord Marksman and Vanadis (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, Standard DVD)*

14th March: Riddle – Story of Devil (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, Standard DVD)*
14th March: Brothers Conflict – Complete Series Collection (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, Standard DVD)*

31st March: Miss Hokusai (Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD set, Standard Blu-ray, Standard DVD)

April (TBC): Terror In Resonance (Ultimate Edition Blu-ray+DVD, Standard DVD)*

[January, TBC] Mobile Suit Gundam: Part 2 of 2 (Blu-ray)*
[TBC] Gundam: Reconguista In G Part 1 (Blu-ray **subtitle-only release**)
[TBC]: Sword Art Online II: Part 3 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD combi, DVD)*
[TBC]: Gankutsuou: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Blu-ray)*

*Tentative date

We should be able to confirm specific dates soon for those marked as tentative.

Signing out~!

Jeremy