Newswire #29 – 21st July 2015

It’s time for your latest update on all things Anime Limited! Read on below for the latest details.

NEWS/GENERAL UPDATES

~ First of all a quick reminder that this weekend is MCM Manchester Comic Con. We’ll be there all weekend with our booth (#531), which is in good proximity to the main entrance, see map below, where you can buy a plethora of our releases including recent titles such as Kill la Kill Part 3 and Tiger & Bunny: The Rising. A few other details you should know about our activity during the weekend:

• We can confirm today that we will have some advance copies of both our Space Dandy Season 1 & 2 DVD set and Sword Art Online II: Part 1 on DVD ahead of their release dates available while stock lasts at our booth.
• We’ll be having our Anime Limited Panel at 11am on the Saturday morning in the MCM Theatre. We’re going to have lots of news to discuss so be sure to attend!
• The Anime Guest Of Honour, Kimiko Ueno, will be having a her panel on Saturday afternoon at 2pm in the MCM Theatre talking about how screenplays are developed for anime.
• Kimki Ueno will also have be having two signing sessions across the weekend in the Guest Stars Signing Area. On Saturday between 3:30pm-4:30pm and on Sunday also between 3:30pm-4:30pm.

 

Team Anime Limited will be heading down to Manchester for setup on Friday so expect to start seeing updates from us that day.

~ It was a very busy week for us last week. There were some release date amendments announced in our Newswire published last Thursday. You can read that HERE. But in addition to that we had two exciting announcements on Friday.

First of all we have licensed the series GANGSTA. for the UK and it will be getting simulcast at Viewster.com. (Details HERE.) The first three episodes are available at Viewster.com now and new episodes will be airing weekly on the site.

In addition to that we have licensed the series Chaos Dragon for the UK and that will be getting simulcast at Viewster.com. (Details HERE.) The episode have aired in Japan will be getting added to Viewster ASAP and then new episodes will be available weekly from then on.

~ A quick reminder that our web shop Deal Of The Month is Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning for only £8.99. Get all the details on that HERE.

~ In case you missed it over the weekend a new trailer for Gundam The Origin II: Artesia’s Sorrow launched. You can watch it HERE.

SIMULCAST UPDATE

Looking at our simulcast lineup for this season as a whole it stands at:

The Heroic Legend Of Arslan (continuing from last season)
Aoharu x Machinegun (aka Aoharu x Kikanjuu)
Castle Town Dandelion
GANGSTA.
Chaos Dragon

There was a delay with subtitles being delivered on time so at time of writing episode 15 of Arslan should be available soon.

Episode 3 of Aoharu x Machinegun is now live at Viewster. Watch it HERE. (Don’t forget the previous two episodes are also available.)

The first two episodes of Castle Town Dandelion went live this past weekend. You can watch them HERE.

As mentioned earlier in the newswire, the first 3 episode of GANGSTA. are available on Viewster HERE. Episodes Chaos Dragon will be available on Viewster soon.

REPLACEMENT UPDATE

Durarara!!
The next wave of replacements will be getting sent next week. Please note if you have applied over the past week that the next round of confirmation messages will be sent towards the end of this week. If you haven’t received confirmation of your application by Wednesday 29th July, please email Jeremy@alltheanime.com

If you have yet to apply for replacement discs please follow all the guidelines HERE.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Here’s the list of upcoming events we’ll be attending in some capacity. More specific information will be posted closer to the events themselves.

MCM Manchester Comic Con, 25th-26th July
– Anime Limited Panel (Saturday, 11am @ MCM Theatre)
– Anime Guest Of Honour, Kimiko Ueno panel. (Saturday, 2pm @ MCM Theatre)
– Anime Guest Of Honour, Kimiko Ueno signing sessions. (Saturday & Sunday,3:30-4:30pm @ Guest Stars Signing Area)

NOM Con, 31st July-2nd August
KITACON, 31st July-2nd August
MCM Scotland Comic Con, 26th-27th September
Scotland Loves Anime – Glasgow, 9th-11th October
Scotland Loves Anime – Edinburgh, 12th-18th October
MCM London Comic Con, 23rd-25th October
MCM Birmingham Comic Con, 21st-22nd November

 

RELEASE CALENDAR

And so with the above information in mind here’s the most up-to-date version of our release schedule. (We will of course continue to update this in each and every Newswire accordingly.)

OUT NOW: Wings Of Honneamise (DVD, Collector’s Edition DVD+Blu-ray combi)
OUT NOW: Durarara!! Complete Series [Standard Edition] (Blu-ray, DVD)
OUT NOW: Kill la Kill Part 3 [Collector’s Edition] (DVD, Blu-ray)
OUT NOW: Tiger & Bunny – The Rising (Limited Edition Blu-ray/DVD)

24th August: Space Dandy Season 2 [Collector’s Edition] (DVD, Blu-ray)
24th August: Space Dandy Complete Season 1 & 2 Set (DVD only)

31st August: Sword Art Online II: Part 1 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD combi, DVD)

August (TBC): 009 Re:Cyborg Collector’s Edition (Blu-ray/DVD combi)*

28th September (TBC): Tokyo Ghoul Season 1 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, DVD)*
28th September: Fate/kaleid liner Prisima Illya (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, DVD)

Q4 Releases (coming soon)*

*Tentative date – not final.

And that concludes this bumper edition of the Newswire. If you have any questions on any of the above please feel post them in the comments below or via our social media channels. (Links below.)

Signing out~!

Jeremy

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