Newswire #64 – 23rd March 2016

It’s time for the latest edition of the Newswire! Read on below for the latest updates direct from Anime Limited HQ.

~ First of all this coming Monday (28th March) sees 3 new releases available to add to your collection! These being Tokyo ESP (Ltd. Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD, standard DVD), Noein: To Your Other Self (Ltd. Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) and our standard edition of Kill la Kill Part 1 (Blu-ray, DVD). You can pre-order each of these from the likes of Amazon, Zavvi, Base and our web shop now.

~ Speaking of Tokyo ESP, we published an unboxing of our Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD set earlier today. You can check it out HERE. For those of you wanting to see a preview of our Noein release, we’ll be publishing an unboxing of it here at our blog tomorrow.

~ In case you missed it this past weekend we shared some big news! That being that we (Anime Limited) are going to be releasing Psycho-Pass The Movie on Blu-ray and DVD this year! You can read our announcement and check out a trailer for it HERE. As we mentioned, the plan for us to release it during the third quarter of the year and it will contain both the English dub and the original Japanese audio with subtitles. We haven’t got any more detail than that at this time, but as soon as we have more to say we’ll be sure to make it known.

~ Speaking of Psycho-Pass The Movie, if you’re in the Edinburgh area this Friday the film is being screened as part of a Scotland Loves Anime mini-programme of films at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. Also being screened is A Letter To Momo, Anthem of the Heart and Miss Hokusai. Get all the details at the Filmhouse website HERE.

Since we announced Psycho-Pass The Movie at the weekend we’ve had lots of questions about whether there might be more screenings planned prior to our release. We want to make it known that it is something we’re looking into, but at this time we don’t have any update on whether that will be possible or not. Obviously if/when there’s any update to that we’ll be sure to make it known.

~ A quick update on our upcoming Durarara!! x2 – The First Arc: Shou release, we can now show a provisional visual of our Ltd. Collector’s Edition Blu-ray release. Before we could only show the artwork of the rigid case itself. Check out the updated, but still not 100% final, visual below.

 

As we’ve talked about before, our release will include the entire first arc of Durarara!! x2, called ‘Shou’. This being 12 episodes total in English and Japanese with subtitles. It will come pack in a rigid case (top left), inside that a digipack (top centre) to hold the two Blu-ray discs. Also included is a 36-page art book, 6 art cards and a set of stickers. On-disc extras are the clean opening and closing title sequences. This will be released on 25th April and can be pre-ordered today from all retailers now including the likes Amazon, Zavvi, Base and our web shop.

For those of you planning to get the Standard DVD version of Durarara!! x2 Shou, here’s a first look at what that will look like. Just to confirm, the DVD version comes with the complete arc, episodes 1-12, in both English and Japanese with subtitles. On-disc extras are the clean opening and closing title sequences.

~ Last week we mentioned that Funimation had announced some details relating to their new Escaflowne English dub, and there’s an update following on from that as they’ve since announced two more cast members. First of all Sonny Strait (Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist, Krillin in Dragon Ball Z), who is also directing the English dub, will be playing the role of the knight Allen Schezar. Also Colleen Clinkenbeard (Erza in Fairy Tail, Hana in the film Wolf Children, Fullmetal Alchemist’s Riza Hawkeye) will be playing the role of the princess Milerna Aston.

A reminder we will be releasing the Escaflowne in the UK later this year. You can hear the last very detailed update about our plans in our most recent podcast HERE.

~ For those planning to get the standard DVD of Psychic School Wars, as oppose to our Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD set, today we can show you the artwork for that release. (See below.) More details on this can be found at our web shop HERE.

~ A quick note to everyone that with Easter being this weekend it means that some changes to our normal running. First of all our Anime Limited HQ will be closed on Good Friday. This also means that any orders placed at our web shop after 6pm this Thursday (24th March) and Sunday (27th) won’t be processed until Monday (28th) at the earliest.

REPLACEMENT SCHEME UPDATES

Durarara!! Limited Edition

This replacement scheme closes next week on Thursday 31st March 2016.

There’s been a small delay on getting confirmation messages sent out over the last week, and we apologise for that. The latest confirmation messages were sent earlier today.

But we want to make it absolutely clear as we enter the final week of our Durarara!! replacement scheme that anyone who follows the steps and applies for discs before midnight (UK) on 31st March, you will have your application processed. Any requests following that time will not be accepted.

So in short, if you haven’t already so long as you apply for discs prior to the cutoff date your application will be processed. Any application received after the cutoff date will not be processed.

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.) 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.)

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.

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

Here you’ll find a list of events we’ll be attending during 2016. The looks small at the moment, but trust us when we say it’ll start looking packed very soon.

Kitacon @ Birmingham, 1st-3rd April 2016
MCM London Comic Con @ Excel London, 27th-29th May

And that concludes this edition of the Newswire. Be sure to keep an eye both here at our blog and on our social media channels for the latest news regarding Anime Limited along with some great reading material too.

Signing out~!

Jeremy