Thursday, October 28, 2010

Bandai Announces January 2011 Releases

Bandai has given us their January 2011 release schedule, and we now have it available on the store site for pre-order. Here's what's coming:

Hayate the Combat Butler DVD #8 (Eps #45-50)
Kurokami The Animation Part #5 DVD (BLURAY) (Eps #17-20) (English Dubbed)
My-Otome 0 ~S.fir~ DVD

Nothing new here except for the My Otome prequel, which I'm glad to finally see but think is priced a little steep for an 84 minute OVA (I had figured a $14.98 MSRP, not $24.98). Anyway, we priced it really low for you at RACS $16.98. It's strange to see Kurokami BD's still coming out, but that's due to the nature of the BD release having fewer eps per disk than the regular edition. Bandai never really had given us a satisfactory answer as to why the Japanese management made them release it this way (other than reimport paranoia), but we're not asking anymore either, are we? :-)

My-Otome 0 ~S.fir~
Years before the events of My-Otome, there was a secret princess that will one day become the queen of Windbloom. Because members of the royal Windbloom bloodline can unlock the hidden powers of the old technology, Sifr Fran is pursued by Aswad and Schwarz and even the Meister Otomes of Garderobe are under orders to kill her if she falls into enemy hands. Meister Otome Lena Sayers and her Otome friends must disobey orders if they are to save Sifr, but first Lena must release her true HiME powers with the help of the Blue Sky Saphire gem.



Hey, "you should know I'm an ally of justice!" :-) HEH.

2 comments:

tenkenX6 said...

I'm definitely going to purchase the My Otome 0 ~S.fir~ DVD. It's a really good(IMHO) 3 part OVA series, which is in a way a prequel to the My Otome TV series, since it tells the story of Arika's mother.

Ben said...

I'm still holding out for all of the following boxed sets:

-Zegapain
-FLAG
-Gunbuster (Anime Legends re-release)
-Gunbuster 2 (see above)

Guess which one will come out first?
(Answer: None, given Bandai's chronic mismanagement.)