Media Blasters Licenses Shinryaku! Ika Musume (Squid Girl) on DVD

CEO John Sirabella of the North American anime distributor Media Blasters confirmed with ANN that his company has acquired the license to the television anime series Shinryaku! Ika Musume (Squid Girl). The company will release the first six episodes of Squid Girl on DVD on September 27. The release will include English-dubbed and -subtitled tracks and have a suggested retail price (SRP) of US$24.99. The solicitations also describe the release as "loaded with extras."

The anime adapts Masahiro Anbe's comedy manga about a squid girl who vows to invade the beaches of mankind since humans have polluted the seas. However, her invasion is less than successful, and she ends up on dry land. The first season premiered last October, and the media-distribution website Crunchyroll streamed the anime outside Japan as it aired. The upcoming second season is called Shinryaku!? Ika Musume.

Source: Fandom Post [Via ANN]

Baka to Test 2 BD & DVD Volumes to Add Another Anime Extra

The six Blu-ray and DVD volumes for the Baka to Test to Shōkanjū Ni! television anime will include more bonus anime extras in addition to the previously announced anime adaptation of the Sore ga Bokura no Nichijō "spinout" manga. Each volume will have an "Shichōkaku-shitsu no Chūshin de Baka to Yobu" ("Call 'Baka' in the Middle of the Audiovisual Room") anime extra. Each volume will also have a live-action "Real F Class no Nichijō" (The Daily Life of the Real F Class) extra with the main cast (Hiro Shimono, Hitomi Harada, Kaori Mizuhashi, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Emiri Katou, Kouki Miyata, Tomomi Isomura, and narrator Kumiko Inoue), as well as an audio commentary.

Baka to Test to Shōkanjū Ni! is the second television anime season based on Kenji Inoue's Baka to Test to Shōkanjū (Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts) comedy light novel series about students in the hapless F Class at a magical academy.

Source: Amazon Japan via Ota-Suke

Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon Promo Video Streamed

The official website for Manabu Ono and Sunrise's Kyōkai Senjō no Horizon (Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere) anime formally launched with a new 90-second promotional video streaming off the YouTube service on Saturday. Minoru Kawakami's original school fantasy light novel series is set in a distant future when Japan is divided into feudal territories and conquered by other countries. There is a floating city named Musashi that is composed of eight ships in the skies. A war that will determine the fate of the world will be fought by students on the Musashi. The anime will premiere in October.

Another New Gundam Project to Be Announced June 25

The Bandai Channel's website for live streams revealed on Monday that another new project in the Gundam franchise is launching. The official portal site Gundam.info and other venues will make the announcement on June 25. Bandai Channel just streamed the official announcement for the Kidō Senshi Gundam AGE (Mobile Suit Gundam AGE) anime series.

Gundam AGE Promotional Video Streamed Outside Japan

On Monday, the English version of the Gundam.info portal site officially began streaming the promotional video for Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, the new anime series which will premiere in October. The same promotional video, which premiered during Monday's announcement for the anime, is also on the official Gundam AGE website, but that website's video is restricted to Japanese IP (Interenet Protocol) addresses.

FUNimation Acquires We Without Wings, Zebraman 2, City Under Seige

FUNimation has announced the licenses to Oretachi ni wa Tsubasa wa Nai or Oretsuba or Oretsuba (We Without Wings - Under the Innocent Sky), and the live action films Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City, and City Under Seige at their A-Kon 22 panel.

Oretachi ni wa Tsubasa wa Nai or Oretsuba (We Without Wings - Under the Innocent Sky) was developed by Navel, the same company behind Shuffle, which was a hit for FUNimation. FUNimation will release the series on DVD and Blu-ray in 2012. FUNimation will also begin streaming the series on June 24th at noon CDT on http://beta.funimation.com/we-without-wings.

Source: FUNimation News

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