Newswire #33 – 20th August 2015

Another week has gone by and that means it’s time for your latest edition for the Anime Limited Newswire!

NEWS/GENERAL UPDATES

~ First of all this coming Monday sees the release of Space Dandy Season 2 on both Blu-ray Collector’s Edition and DVD Collector’s Edition. We posted a big preview unboxing preview of what we feel is beautiful set and perfectly encapsulates everything we love about the series. If you haven’t checked out our unboxing you can read it HERE.

With Space Dandy Season 2 being out this Monday, over the past week we’ve released a few preview clips. You can check them out below.

~ We’ve had some great content here at our blog recently. Here’s a summary for those of you enjoy a good read:

• Ahead of the release of Sword Art Online II: Part 1, we look back at the story so far HERE.
• Paul Browne looks at the music of Castle Town Dandelion by YuiKaori HERE.
• Andy Hanley puts the focus on a recent acquisition of ours, Blood Blockade Battlefront, HERE.
• Meghan Ellis on near-future romance and HAL HERE.

 

~ In case you missed it last week our most recent podcast featuring Stephanie Sheh (the voice of Sailor Moon) is available now and be heard HERE. You can also find details on how to get hold of the podcast through iTunes and whatnot in the same link. We’re hopping to be recording the next episode of our podcast within the next few weeks, so stay tuned for that!

~ For those of you planning to come to the Glasgow leg of Scotland Loves Anime in October, there is a Season Pass available for the weekend. This entitles you attend all seven screenings with the Scotland Loves Anime Pass, plus a special screening on Monday 5th October available to pass holders only. There’s only 60 of these available and are available now from the Glasgow Film Theatre site 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
Blood Blockade Battlefront

Episode 19 of The Heroic Legend of Arslan is available to watch HERE.

Episode 7 of Aoharu x Machinegun is now live at Viewster. Watch it HERE.

Episode 7 of Castle Town Dandelion is available to watch HERE.

Episode 7 of GANGSTA. is available to watch HERE.

Episodes 7 of Chaos Dragon are available now on Viewster HERE.

The first 11 episodes of Blood Blockade Battlefront are available to watch at Viewster HERE. The air date for the final episode has not been set yet.

REPLACEMENT UPDATE

Durarara!! Limited Edition
A big wave of replacements were sent earlier this week. Please note we have quite a bit of backlog of replacement requests to work through stemming from the past couple of weeks of being at events and such, but all UK applicants as of Tuesday should have received a confirmation of applying for replacement discs email. (International applicants can expect their confirmation email before the end of the week.) 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.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

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

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.)

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

14th September: 009 Re:Cyborg (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD combi)

21st September: Sword Art Online II: Part 1 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD combi, DVD)

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)

OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2015
26th October: Ping Pong The Animation (Blu-ray, DVD)
26th October: Sword Art Online II: Part 2 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD combi, DVD)

2nd November: Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad – The Complete Collection (DVD)
16th November: Samurai Flamenco: Part 1 (Blu-ray **subtitle-only release**)
30th November: Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD combi)
30th November: Mobile Suit Gundam: Part 1 of 2 [tentative title] (Blu-ray)*

[TBC December] Mobile Suit Gundam: Part 2 of 2 [tentative title] (Blu-ray)*
7th December: Full Metal Panic Ultimate Edition [Season 1 + Fumoffu + The Second Raid] (Blu-ray)
7th December: A Letter To Momo (Blu-ray, DVD)
14th December: Sword Art Online II: Part 3 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD combi, DVD)
14th December: Gankutsuou: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Blu-ray)
21st December: Gundam: Reconguista In G Part 1 (Blu-ray **subtitle-only release**)

*Tentative date

We should be able to confirm specific dates soon. Also there is a possibility there might be a few additions to the lineup.

Signing out~!

Jeremy

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