AnimationEigo introduced throughout his business panel at Otakon on Saturday that it has granted a license for the Time of Eve to movie BECAUSEsimilar to the Full Moon for Sagashite anime. The corporate additionally introduced that it’ll Bubblegum Crash anime on Blu-ray Disc.

AnimationEigo additionally introduced that it has new merchandise within the works, and that the discharge of Macross-II is making progress. The Kickstarter crowdfunding marketing campaign for the Blu-ray Disc version of The Tremendous Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Once more authentic video anime (egg cell) reached its funding objective final December.

Moreover, Robert Woodhead will launch a brand new one Kickstarter marketing campaign for a Blu-ray Disc launch and an artbook for the The Dagger of Kamui anime movie. The marketing campaign is anticipated to go reside later this month.

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The marketing campaign preview, which continues to be topic to vary, states that the discharge will embody the HD switch of the unique movie with English subtitles, SDH subtitles and captions; coloration and line artwork galleries; a model new full-length commentary monitor from the director Rintarō and anime historian Masahiro Haraguchi; and a reversible cowl glass. The discharge is not going to be area locked. AnimationEigo can even produce an artwork ebook and a digital archive of further manufacturing supplies.

Rewards embody the BD-50 Blu-ray Disc, artbook, and a cardboard slipcase.

Rintarō directed the movie at MadhouseThe movie first premiered in Japan in 1985. AnimationEigo launched the movie on VHS and Laser disk within the Nineties and launched the movie on DVD in 2003.

AnimationEigo describes the story:

On the eve of the Meiji Restoration, as a sleeping Japan awakens and appears west, an innkeeper finds a child named Jiro floating in a ship; his solely companion a glittering sword, the Dagger of Kamui. When Jiro is 13, his adoptive household is murdered and Jiro is blamed, solely to be saved by Tenkai, a priest, who trains him within the mysterious arts of the Ninja. Searching for revenge for the lack of his adoptive household, Jiro kills the mysterious one-armed Ninja who is claimed to have killed them.

Years later, appearing on a tip from Tenkai, Jiro tracks down his actual mom, solely to find that Tenkai had tasked his father with discovering a clue to Captain Kidd’s misplaced treasure. With the treasure in hand, the Shogun will be capable to keep management, and Japan will as soon as once more isolate itself from the world. Nevertheless, his father fell in love, deserted the search, and had a toddler — and for this failure, Tenkai took horrible revenge!

Now the chase begins and Jiro, with solely the Dagger of Kamui as assist, units out in the hunt for the nice treasure. A quest that can take him all the best way to the American Wild West, with Tenkai’s henchmen all the time on his heels.

If Jiro can discover the treasure and return to Japan, he could possibly take revenge and plunge Kamui’s dagger into Tenkai’s black coronary heart!


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AnimationEigo will launch the “Time of Eve: Full assortment” that features each the BECAUSE and the movie model on Blu-ray Disc and video on demand in December 2024. The discharge will embody: New message‘s English dub for the movie model. The episodic model can have English subtitles solely.

The discharge contains all of the extras from the earlier Kickstarter marketing campaign launch. AnimationEigo describes the anime:

A piece of authorship by author/director Yasuhiro Yoshiura. Within the close to future, humanoid robots are in all places and each residence has one as a servant. At some point, two teenage boys uncover a nondescript espresso store with one rule: no distinction between people and androids. With their heads-up shows turned off, it seems nobody can inform the distinction! A crucial darling that takes direct purpose at prejudice and political extremism, this movie has solely grow to be extra related since its 2010 launch. Consists of English dub by New message.

The discharge will embody the brief movies Pale cocoon And Aquatic language.

The six episode Time of Eve web anime sequence that was initially launched in 2008. Yasuhiro Yoshiura directed the anime, wrote the story and script, and storyboarded the anime. He was additionally the sound director and was answerable for the anime’s CG. A compiled movie model was launched in Japan in March 2010. rat catcher launched the movie on Blu-ray Disc in North America in 2014 and 2015.


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AnimationEigo will let go Full Moon for Sagashite with all 52 episodes remastered in HD on Blu-ray Disc in 2025. The corporate describes the anime:

Primarily based on Arina Tanemura‘s basic shoujo manga. 12-year-old Mitsuki desires to be a singer. Sadly, she has most cancers and may’t sing above a whisper. At some point, two “loss of life gods” seem and inform her she solely has one yr left to reside. So to make her dream come true, they’re going to rework her… into an actual idol singer.

This marks the primary time the anime has been launched completely in English. Viz Media beforehand launched a part of the anime on DVD in 2006 and 2007.

Toshiyuki Kato directed the anime on Studio DEEN.

Arina Tanemura printed the unique manga in seven volumes from 2001-2004 in Shueisha‘S ribbon journal. Viz Media the manga was launched in English.


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AnimationEigo will launch the HD remaster model of Bubblegum Crash on Blu-ray Disc and on video on demand in January 2025. Episodes 1 and three shall be a AstroRes upscale, and episode 2 will function a brand new movie scan.

The three-episode egg cell is a sequel to the Bubblegum disaster anime, and it debuted in 1991. Hiroshi Ishiodori And Hiroyuki Fukushima directed and storyboarded the anime, and Emu Arii wrote the scripts. AnimationEigo beforehand launched the sequence on VHS, Laser diskand DVD.


AnimationEigo additionally highlighted the upcoming releases, together with Driving Bean on September 10, Otaku on video on October eighth and Megazone 23: The entire trilogy on November tenth.

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