Newswire – 8/1/2020. A preview of what home video releases you can expect from us to begin 2020!.
Happy new year everyone! We hope you've had a great festive break and enjoyed your celebrations welcoming the new decade too! This update blog post is a mixed bag; as it’ll contain a list of forthcoming release dates so you can see what we have incoming over the next few months but at the same it'll also include some date amendments based on information we have received today from our production house following the festive break and reopening this week.
So sit back, (try to) relax, and have a read for what's incoming.
JANUARY 2020
TOKYO GHOUL:re - PART 1
Product: Tokyo Ghoul: re – Part 1
Format: Blu-ray Collector’s Edition, Standard Edition DVD
Release date: 13th January 2020
Cat. No.: ANI0475 (Collector’s BD) / ANI0476 (DVD)
Suggested Retail Price: £59.99 (Collector’s BD), £29.99 (DVD)
Inside our Tokyo Ghoul: re Part 1 Collector's Edition Blu-ray!
READ MORE ABOUT OUR RELEASE OF TOKYO GHOUL:re - Part 1 HERE
CODE GEASS FILM III: GLORIFICATION
Product: Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion III: Glorification
Format: Blu-ray Ltd Collector’s Edition
Release date: 13th January 2020
Cat. No.: ANI0350
Suggested Retail Price: £39.99
Code Geass III: Groification
READ MORE ABOUT OUR RELEASE OF CODE GEASS FILM III: GLORIFICATION HERE
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN V & VI
Product: Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin V & VI
Format: Blu-ray Ltd Collector’s Edition
Release date: 27th January 2020
Cat. No.: ANI8038
Suggested Retail Price: £39.99
READ MORE ABOUT OUR RELEASE OF GUNDAM THE ORIGIN V & VI HERE
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WING: PART 2 (standard edition Blu-ray)
Product: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Part 2 Blu-ray (standard edition)
Format: Blu-ray
Release date: 27th January 2019
Cat. No.: ANI8040
Suggested Retail Price: £59.99
Now some of you may have noticed some titles not mentioned in the list above. As alluded to at the top of this post, following an update we've received from our production house today, some dates of upcoming releases have had to be amended. So with that in mind, here is how things are now looking for February and the start of March...
FEBRUARY 2020
PLASTIC MEMORIES: PART 1
Product: Plastic Memories Part 1
Format: Blu-ray Ltd Collector’s Edition
Release date: 10th February 2020
Cat. No.: ANI0229
Suggested Retail Price: £39.99
Plastic Memories Part 1 - Blu-ray Collector's Edition
READ MORE ABOUT OUR RELEASE OF PLASTIC MEMORIES: PART 1 HERE
KING'S GAME
Product: King’s Game
Format: Blu-ray Ltd. Collector’s Edition
Release date: 17th February 2020
Cat. No.: ANI0513
Suggested Retail Price: £59.99
King's Game - Blu-ray Collector's Edition
READ MORE ABOUT OUR RELEASE OF KING'S GAME HERE
CALAMITY OF A ZOMBIE GIRL
Product: Calamity of a Zombie Girl
Format: Blu-ray
Release date: 17th February 2020
Language: Japanese with English subtitles only
Cat. No.: ANI0510
Suggested Retail Price: £19.99
READ MORE ABOUT OUR RELEASE OF CALAMITY OF A ZOMBIE GIRL HERE
GUNDAM 00: PART 1 (standard edition)
Product: Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Part 1 Blu-ray (standard edition)
Format: Blu-ray
Release date: 17th February 2019
Cat. No.: ANI8030
Suggested Retail Price: £59.99
VIEW ALL THE ANIME LISTING HERE
PENGUIN HIGHWAY
Product: Penguin Highway Limited Collector’s Edition
Format: DVD/Blu-ray
Release date: 24th February 2020
Language: Japanese and English with English subtitles
Cat. No.: ANI0544
Suggested Retail Price: £49.99
Coming 24th February 2020
Product: Penguin Highway
Format: Blu-ray
Release date: 24th February 2020
Language: Japanese and English with English subtitles
Cat. No.: ANI0545
Suggested Retail Price: £19.99
Product: Penguin Highway
Format: DVD
Release date: 24th February 2020
Language: Japanese and English with English subtitles
Cat. No.: ANI0546
Suggested Retail Price: £17.99
READ MORE ABOUT OUR RELEASE OF PENGUIN HIGHWAY HERE
A SILENT VOICE (2020 Limited Edition Set)
Product: A Silent Voice Limited Edition
Format: DVD/Blu-ray
Release date: 24th February 2020
Language: Japanese and English with English subtitles
Cat. No.: ANI0541
Suggested Retail Price: £34.99
A Silent Voice - 2020 Limited Edition Blu-ray
READ MORE ABOUT OUR RELEASE OF THIS NEW A SILENT VOICE LIMITED EDITION SET HERE
(EARLY) MARCH 2020
PLASTIC MEMORIES: PART 2
Product: Plastic Memories Part 2
Format: Blu-ray Ltd Collector’s Edition
Release date: 2nd March 2020
Cat. No.: ANI0230
Suggested Retail Price: £39.99
Plastic Memories: Part 2 - Blu-ray Collector's Edition
READ MORE ABOUT OUR RELEASE OF PLASTIC MEMORIES: PART 2 HERE
GUNDAM 00: PART 2 (STANDARD EDITION)
Product: Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Part 2 Blu-ray (standard edition)
Format: Blu-ray
Release date: 2nd March 2020
Cat. No.: ANI8031
Suggested Retail Price: £59.99
VIEW ALL THE ANIME LISTING HERE
And that about wraps this preview of the next few months! I'll say now, it's entirely possible a few other things may sneak into the lineup before March, but we're playing it safe and holding off on mentioning them inc case something goes awry. And you can likely expect news about titles coming from March onwards in early February time all going well.
And don't worry if there's a title not mentioned above you were hoping for, it's not been forgotten about. There's a heck of a lot planned for this year, but as some of you eagle eyed folks will have noticed there's one or two omissions from things we had mentioned in passing late last year. The festive period can play havoc with production on some things, and we can't escape that. So until things are locked in and we have concrete information on thing, we're not jumping the gun on things.
Signing out~!
Jeremy
Shinkai on Weathering
By Andrew Osmond.
It’s been three years since Makoto Shinkai was last in London. “I don’t remember it being this dark or this cold,” he says. A moment later, he confirms that his new film, Weathering with You, is chiefly inspired by the climate crisis. “I don’t know how things are here in London, but in Japan we’re getting heavier and heavier rain every summer, and we’re clearly getting more flooding. This climate crisis that we’ve been hearing about for a while is now a reality. We’re actually experiencing it and the world is out of control.” Continue Reading
Anime Streaming Guide 2020
by Chris Perkins.
We return for our annual round-up of places to legally access anime online, with yet another major player getting in the ring. As if the average anime fan didn’t already have an embarrassment of riches to choose from in 2020, the arrival of Channel Four’s online portal All4, with over a hundred hours of free streaming anime seems set to create a whole echelon of new fans. All4 is available for free (with ads) via desktop, mobile apps, smart TVs, game consoles and tablets. You'll need to sign up for a (free) account to watch – although there's an ad-free option for £3.99 a month.
There's a mix of series available – some of them are already available streaming elsewhere, while others are available for the first time in the UK. All titles are presented in English dubbed format. Continue Reading
Interview: Shinichiro Watanabe
By Andrew Osmond.
“It’s the same as British weather, really,” Shinichiro Watanabe observes about the trials of life to a London audience at MCM Comic Con. Outside it’s winter and the island’s weather is at its dreariest. “We don’t have good weather here… but just by having that bad weather, one sunny day makes it worthwhile, doesn’t it?” The audience cheers its approval.
The director of Cowboy Bebop, Terror in Resonance, Space Dandy and Samurai Champloo is a friend to our soggy land, often visiting our shores. On this occasion, he’s promoting Carole & Tuesday, his new series about two budding amateur girl musicians on a terraformed Mars, now on Netflix. His co-director Motonobu Hori is here too. In his public Q&A, they reveal that a stretch of a show involving a TV talent contest was directly inspired by Britain’s X Factor. That stone-faced judge in the anime who hates all the acts… Yes, it’s based on him.
In the Q&A, Watanabe and Hori also explain that Watanabe handled the script and storyboard for the series, while Hori took on other duties. Watanabe also took the blame for Carole & Tuesday’s potty-mouthed song “Galactic Mermaid”, which he described as expressing those moments when only four-letter words will do. “F*** everything!”, Watanabe declared to the crowd in perfect English, perhaps a convention first. It seems many of those moments occurred when Watanabe made his Blade Runner film “Black Out 2022” – he revealed on stage that “I was fighting against a certain producer every single day.” Continue Reading
Books: Netflix Nations
By Jonathan Clements.
In a publicity coup to rival no other in January 2016 at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that while he had been talking, Netflix had rolled out (at least in theory) in 130 countries, including Azerbaijan, Vietnam, India, Nigeria, and Poland. It’s a suitably grandstanding opening for Ramon Lobato’s book Netflix Nations: The Geography of Distribution, which aims to explain just what has happened in the last few years in the world of digital distribution. Continue Reading