Wednesday, October 28, 2015

NIS Announces Love Live! Season 2 Complete BD Premium Edition!

NISA has announced a Valentines Day release of Love Live! School Idol Project Season 2 in a BLURAY Premium Edition and we now have it up for pre-order on the store site:

Love Live! School Idol Project Season 2 BLURAY Collection (Premium Edition) - Feb 14

They also announced a Standard Edition release for Season 1 the same day:

Love Live! School Idol Project Season 1 BLURAY Collection (Standard Edition) - Feb 14

The premium edition includes Season 2 on BluRay format, a hardcover artbook (full color, 28pg) with character art, sketches, behind-the-scenes manga, and interviews with the cast and crew. Disk extra's include clean opening and endings and Japanese commercials.

For a limited time, we're offering this set in pre-order for the special RACS price of only $49.98 ($69.98 MSRP) so reserve your copy today! Release date is set for February 14th. 

Synopsis: Otonokizaka High School is planning to close within three years. However, nine female students come together with one thing in mind— to form an idol group to revive the school’s popularity and keep it from shutting down. “In order to protect our beloved school, there’s only one thing we can do...become school idols!” Their goal is simple:  Become  an overnight sensation and  use their  nationwide media  exposure  to  promote  their  school  and bring in a wave of new students to the ailing area. A simple but solid plan, they figure. Naturally, they’re nervous and wonder if this plan can really succeed, but for better or worse their journey continues...

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Funimation's January 2016 Anime Releases - Now Available for Pre-Order!

Funimation has sent over their January 2016 Anime release schedule and we now have them up on the store site for pre-order!

Here's what's coming:

Noein Complete Collection DVD/BD Combo Set (Limited Edition) - Jan 12
Noein Complete Collection DVD/BD Combo Set (Standard Edition) - Jan 12
Terror in Resonance Complete Collection DVD/BD Combo Set (Limited Edition) - Jan 19
Terror in Resonance Complete Collection DVD/BD Combo Set (Standard Edition) - Jan 19
Certain Scientific Railgun S (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun) Season 2 DVD/BD Combo Set - Jan 19
Kingdom the Complete 1st Season DVD Set - Jan 26
One Piece Season 7 Part 5 DVD Boxed Set (Uncut) (Eps #434-445) - Jan 26

Noein was re-scheduled into January from November. This month Railgun S finally gets a BD release because Funimation knows us fans love to double dip. Also, if you are noticing that the MSRP /street pricing for a lot Funimation releases going forward is starting to creep up a bit, it's not your imagination. Those guys that they hired over from Universal last year are doing what they do best.