Crunchyroll is releasing some big titles coming to physical media for October, as ever, including some welcome additions. Arriving on Blu-ray for the first time outside of Japan comes the murder mystery series ODDTAXI, which will be available to own on October 7 from Crunchyroll in North America. Produced by OLM (Pokémon; The Apothecary Diaries; Komi Can't Communicate), ODDTAXI was honored at the […]
One of the best new anime series of 2024, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 1 Part 2 will be available to own in North America as a fantastical Limited Edition Blu-ray and DVD box on October 21st from Crunchyroll, the highlight of the streamer's physical media releases for the month. The Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 1 Part […]
Would you like to win a copy of Shout! TV's Blaxploitation Classics Vol. 1? All you need is a BlueSky account to take part in this giveaway. Shout! will be running a marathon of these films all weekend long on their streaming service, as you'll see films from the genre like TNT Jackson and Caged Heat […]
Anime distributor AnimEigo and parent company MediaOCD have announced the home media Blu-ray release of the anime series Romeo's Blue Skies on July 29th. The 33-episode series was produced in 1995 by Nippon Animation and was directed by Kozo Kusuba with a screenplay by Michiru Shimada and character designs by Yoshiharu Soto. It is based on […]
After an eighth-season opener that scored big on several levels, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty is back this weekend with S08E02: "Valkyrick," an episode that looks to give Rick and Space Beth some quality father/(clone?) daughter time together while engaging in so more "Star Wars shit" (because we all know how much Rick loves those moments). […]
Ahh, nothing like anime nostalgia – Bubblegum Crisis is a burst of 90s nostalgia. It was one of the major anime series of the 1990s that was a milestone on many levels. It helped kick off the OVA (Original Video Animation) boom where short anime series and feature films were released straight to video for […]
Anime distributor AnimEigo and parent company MediaOCD have announced the home media Blu-ray release of Nasu: Summer in Andalusia on March 11th. From studio MADHOUSE and famed animator Kitaro Kosaka and Studio Ghibli veteran (Director of Okko's Inn, Animation Director of Spirited Away, The Wind Rises) comes the first anime feature film to ever compete in the […]
As fans prepare for the long-awaited season two of The Last of Us season two, HBO released details on the upcoming Steelbook Ultra 4K set. Based on the popular Sony and Naughty Dog video game franchise of the same name, the Craig Mazin and (Naughty Dog's) Neil Druckmann-created series largely follows the narrative of the […]
AnimEigo and parent company Media OCD announced the upcoming home media Blu-ray release of Bubblegum Crisis Perfect Collection on February 11th. The "Perfect Collection" is a collector's edition box set with a collector's booklet. Bubblegum Crisis: A Japanese Anime Cyberpunk Classic It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is […]
With Loki wrapping its run after two seasons in 2023 because heaven forbid Disney gives Sophia Di Martino that third season since she's technically a Loki variant named Sylvie, Marvel revealed a deleted scene that could have tied the 2022 MCU film Thor: Love and Thunder and a character will supposedly tie into the fifth […]
Warner Bros. Japan released the official trailer, new preview images, and a rundown of the voice cast for Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League, the animated feature film set to hit digital and Blu-ray in 2025. The look came as part of Warner Bros. Japan and Warner Bros. Animation's "Bats in Translation: 'Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza […]
Earlier this week, we got the heads up that an official trailer for the second and final chapter of Warner Bros. Entertainment's take on DC Comics' Watchmen (based on writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins's classic work) would be dropping. Well, guess what? Not only do we have a look at […]
We can safely say that the first chapter of Warner Bros. Entertainment's take on DC Comics' Watchmen (based on writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins's classic work) blew our minds with how well it brought the original work to animated life (with a great behind-the-scenes look waiting for you below). On Wednesday, […]
Megazone 23, which debuted in 1985, ignited the Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) boom. It proved there was a market for direct-to-video anime films and paved the way for anime to become not just a niche genre but a worldwide phenomenon. It was soon joined by a visually mind-blowing sequel and a two-part spinoff that […]
Bubblegum Crash is a 1991 OVA (Original Video Animation) anime produced by Artmic and Artland. It follows the beloved 1987 series Bubblegum Crisis a year after the original story. It was one of the defining anime of the 1990s, just as the anime boom was just beginning in the United States. Now, the OVA will be getting […]
Crunchyroll released their list of Blu-Ray box set titles coming in December 2024, and it's full of heavy hitters. This includes a lavish complete collection of the Tokyo Ghoul series and its spinoffs. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End will also be making its way onto Blu-ray from Crunchyroll on December 17. The first season will be […]
With the first chapter of Warner Bros. Entertainment's take on DC Comics' Watchmen (based on writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins's classic work) now available (and hitting physical media later this month), we're getting a chance to hear from director Brandon Vietti (Young Justice, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Batman: Under […]
As we've been previewing over the past few months, Warner Bros. Entertainment released the first chapter of its animated adaptation of DC Comics' Watchmen (based on writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins's classic work). To say that the lineup of voice actors is impressive would be a dramatic understatement – especially when […]
Anime distributor AnimEigo returns to anime's golden age in the 1980s as it announces the Blu-ray home media release on October 8th of Otaku No Video on October 8th. The classic anime OVA spoofs the life and culture of otaku as well as the history of Studio GAINAX and its creators, the now-defunct studio best […]
Later this month, Warner Bros. Entertainment will release the first chapter of its animated adaptation of DC Comics' Watchmen (based on writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins's classic work). But for this go-around, instead of a sneak preview, we're getting an extended look behind the scenes of how the comic pages were […]
