Newswire #58 – 12th Feb 2016

Later in the week than usual, but we’re back for another edition of our Newswire. Today topics include us having a panel at MCM Midlands Comic Con tomorrow, your chance to catch some our titles in the cinema this weekend, A Letter To Momo and more.

ANIME LIMITED UPDATES

~ First of all, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo and Mobile Suit Gundam Part 2 are both available now on Blu-ray. Get the details on each in the links below.

CLICK HERE to see the unboxing of our Mobile Suit Gundam Part 2 Blu-ray

CLICK HERE to see the unboxing of our Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray of Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

~ Our next release will be the film Fuse: Memoirs of the Hunter Girl on Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD and standard edition DVD. If you’re familiar with the film Andrew Osmond provides the perfect introduction to it HERE.

~ Tomorrow (Saturday 13th February) sees Anime Limited heading to its first event of 2016. Jeremy will be heading to MCM Midlands Comic Con in Telford tomorrow and will be hosting a panel at 12:30pm. He’ll be at the event all day so if you see him say hi to him and feel free to ask any questions you may have. He might be very tall, but he’s our resident big friendly giant and is happy to talk to you.

~ Looking to go to the cinema this weekend? Perhaps looking to do something special on Valentine’s Day this Sunday? Why not go to the cinema? Both Miss Hokusai and The Anthem of the Heart are being shown at a few locations as part of the Japan Foundation’s Film Touring Programme. You can catch them at:

Saturday 13th February
Miss Hokusai at the Bristol Watershed. Ticket information HERE

Sunday 14th February
Miss Hokusai and The Anthem of the Heart at the Derby QUAD. Ticket information HERE
Miss Hokusai at the Sheffield Showroom Cinema. Ticket information HERE.

For more details on the Japan Foundation Film Touring Programme CLICK HERE.

Earlier this week we revealed the details of our upcoming release of the film A Letter To Momo on 11th April. (You can read all about that HERE.) Until midday this Monday we’re having a special early-bid pre-order offer on this at our web shop. Click HERE for the details on that. You can watch the trailer for the film below.

NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

~ The Case of Hana & Alice is getting a screening at the Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast on the weekend of the 20th/21st February. Stay tuned their website for more details.

A reminder that it’s also getting a cinema screening in London as part of the Asia House Film Festival. You can catch the film on 27th February at the Regent Street Cinema near Oxford Circus. You can book tickets today HERE.

REPLACEMENT SCHEME UPDATES

Durarara!! Limited Edition

This replacement scheme closes on Thursday 31st March 2016.

The latest round of replacements were sent earlier this week. The next round of confirmation messages will be getting sent early-mid next week. If you have applied for discs since then your application will be processed soon. We appreciate people’s patience with this.

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.)

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.

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.

MCM Midlands Comic Con, Telford, 13th February
– Panel @ 12:30pm

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