Added on September 28, 2015  Lesley Aeschliman  anime , Aniplex of America , Eastern Star , featured , News

New Anime Releases for the Week of September 29, 2015

This week sees new anime releases from Aniplex of America, Eastern Star, Sentai Filmworks, and VIZ Media.

My “Pick of the Week” is VIZ Media’s release of Bleach Set 26.

Bleach Set 26 DVD
VIZ Media – Sub and Dub – MSRP: $44.82 Get it for $40.34 on Amazon!

Ichigo begins training under Ginjo in order to develop his Fullbring powers, while Orihime and Chad discuss what little they know about Tsukishima and Uryu begins his own investigation into the attacks. Once his training is complete, Ichigo returns home, only to find that his family and friends have accepted Tsukishima as if they’ve known him for years. Confused and shaken, Ichigo goes to the one person he thinks he can rely on, but with everyone turning on him, who remains to be trusted?

The other new releases coming out this week are:

Descendants of Darkness The Complete TV Series Collection DVD
Eastern Star – Sub and Dub – MSRP: $39.95

Evil walks the earth, and only supernatural detective Tsuzuki can stop it. Tsuzuki takes on vampires and demons with style and skill, but his afterlife has been haunted by the specter of the evil Dr. Muraki, a heartless, immortal serial killer. Can Tsuzuki’s brash and beautiful new partner help him control his deadly supernatural powers and defeat the villainous Dr. Muraki before he kills again?

Durarara!! x2 Sho Volume 1 DVD | Blu-ray
Aniplex of America – Sub and Dub – MSRP: $59.98 | $99.98

Half a year after the turmoil that rocked the entire city of Ikebukuro – peace has once again returned to the city and people are living each day normally. The high school students enjoy their days of youth as the strongest and most dangerous man of Ikebukuro works diligently. The informant plots a new scheme and the headless rider is pursued by the cops as she rides through the night. But soon this ordinary life will be cut short by extraordinariness. Slowly but surely, the unknown will seize the city and face an all new storm.

Go Nagai World DVD
Eastern Star – Sub – MSRP: $24.95

In the world of Japanese animation, Go Nagai is a legend. As one of the most prolific creators of anime works of all time, Go Nagai has single-handedly created entire genres, as well as pushed boundaries and set new standards for generations of artists and writers to come. Whether exploring anti-war sentiments through extreme violence with his most popular work, Devilman, or carving through a culture of shame towards sexuality with Harenchi Gakuen, it’s no exaggeration to say that Go Nagai has changed Japanese culture forever. And now, his creations are super deformed. Akira Fudo wakes up one morning to find his body isn’t quite right, and he isn’t the only one. Alongside Miki and Ryo, Akira will need to find a way to return his body to normal, and along their journey, they’ll meet strange people from strange lands – yet are all too familiar to fans.

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid DVD
Eastern Star – Sub and Dub – MSRP: $24.95

When Marina looks up, she doesn’t see the sky; she sees the world of the surface. As the youngest princess of the undersea kingdom, she’s always longed to see what lies above. Stealing her way upwards during the dead of night, the mermaid princess finds the man of her dreams as he sails across the dark sea. But one encounter, no matter how dramatic, isn’t enough for her. Marina visits the sea witch, and begs to have her fishy tail replaced with human legs.

As the story goes, the princess must pay with her voice – but also agree to a condition. If her prince does not return her love, and instead loves another, then she will turn into foam. In a tale more faithful to the original Hans Christian Andersen story, The Little Mermaid is a fairy tale at once familiar, but also darkly different.

Nobunaga the Fool Collection 2 DVD | Blu-ray
Sentai Filmworks – Sub and Dub – MSRP: $59.98 | $69.98

As the ley-lines of the Western Star near the point of collapse, the threat of invasion continues to escalate. Fearing attack from their sister world, the Eastern Star braces for the eruption of full-scale interstellar war. Meanwhile, betrayal follows betrayal as the factions seeking the Holy Grail continue to turn on each other. The Table is shattered and with Jeanne in the clutches of Cesare Borgia and Machiavelli, the seer seems destined for torture and burning at the stake. Will history repeat itself or will Nobu be able to pull off a daring rescue? King Arthur’s horrifying plan comes to fruition and the fates of two planets depend on the actions of one man.

Persona 4 The Animation Complete Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo
Sentai Filmworks – Sub and Dub – MSRP: $139.98

When Yu Narukami moves to the country town of Inaba to stay with his uncle and cousin, he’s expecting more peace and quiet than he’s been used to in the big city. What he isn’t expecting is for his uncle’s job as a police detective to spill over into his own life. Or for the murders that are occurring across town to be somehow linked to Yu’s own strange experiences, odd local weather patterns, and a mysterious TV show world that seems to be attempting to get Yu to enter it. Now, together with a new group of friends, Yu must plunge into a bizarre alternate reality where he gains unique abilities that will either help him solve the riddle of the mystery killer, or lead him to his doom.

Persona 4 the Golden Animation Volume 2 Blu-ray
Aniplex of America – Sub – MSRP: $99.98

Yu follows Adachi into the Midnight TV to find the truth behind a series of incidents in the rural town in spite of Marie’s warning to stay away from him. When Yu’s Persona and Adachi’s Persona fight, Yu understands what happened to Adachi before. Yu cannot find words to comfort Adachi and goes back to the real world. Meanwhile, Marie continues searching for the memories she had lost. Can Yu and his friends reach the truth?

Super Dimension Century Orguss DVD
Eastern Star – Sub and Dub – MSRP: $69.95

Today, Kei Katsuragi’s only concern is the love of his life. It doesn’t really matter to him that he has more than one love – after all, as a pilot for the Freedom Space Corps, he might be dead tomorrow. In the future, war has changed, and Kei is all too familiar with the horrors it can bring. Atomic, biological, and chemical weapons are all in use, but even worse than those are the dimensional weapons, ordnance capable of tearing apart even time and space. As it happens, his next mission involves one of these terrifying weapons, the latest risky gambit in the war over the space elevator on Earth. Fleeing from the warmth of his lover (and her father’s gun) to the coldness of space, Kei fights to protect a team of engineers as they arm the dimensional weapon on-site. But when they get orders to pull out without detonating the bomb, Kei disobeys, unwilling to make the sacrifices of the day meaningless. His brash actions have dire consequences beyond just a big kaboom, as that explosion flings him into the future. There, Kei finds himself caught in an entirely different struggle between the militaristic Chiram and the mercantile Emaan – with himself as the prize.