Industry News: Sentai Filmworks April 2017 Release Slate

Sentai once again provides a short line-up with a surprise Gatchaman instalment and a special My Love Story!! collector's treatment.

In total we have 5 new titles joining the catalogue and 1 catalogue.

April 4th:

Girls Beyond the Wasteland - Complete Collection

Region: US Geo-lock|1

Publisher: Showgate

Format: Standalone Blu-ray and DVD

Languages: Japanese (w/English subs)

Price (SRP): $59.98 (Blu-ray) and $49.98 (DVD)

Price (Rightstuf): $38.99 (Blu-ray) and $32.49 (DVD)

Extras:

Clean Opening Animation

Clean Closing Animation

April 11th:

Is the Order a Rabbit?? - Complete Collection

Region: US Geo-lock|1

Publisher: Showgate

Format: Standalone Blu-ray and DVD

Languages: Japanese (w/English subs)

Price (SRP): $59.98 (Blu-ray) and $49.98 (DVD)

Price (Rightstuf): $38.99 (Blu-ray) and $32.49 (DVD)

Extras:

Clean Opening Animation

Clean Closing Animation

April 18th:

Gatchaman II - Complete Collection

Region: US Geo-lock|1

Publisher: Tatsunoko Productions

Format: Standalone DVD

Languages: Japanese (w/English subs)

Price (SRP): $79.98 (DVD)

Price (Rightstuf): $51.99 (DVD)

Extras:

Clean Opening Animation

Clean Closing Animation

Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle - Complete Collection

Region: US Geo-lock|1

Publisher: Showgate

Format: Standalone Blu-ray and DVD

Languages: Japanese (w/English subs)

Price (SRP): $59.98 (Blu-ray) and $49.98 (DVD)

Price (Rightstuf): $38.99 (Blu-ray) and $32.49 (DVD)

Extras:

Clean Opening Animation

Clean Closing Animation

April 25th:

My Love Story!!: Complete Collection (Limited Edition)

Region: US Geo-lock|1

Publisher: NTV

Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack

Languages: English & Japanese (w/English subs)

Price (SRP): $199.98

Price (Rightstuf): $129.99

Extras (Collector's Edition Exclusive):

Chipboard Artbox

Hardcover Booklet

Poster

Valentines Cards

Macaron Container

Keychain

Buttons

Art cards

Extras (On-Disc Content):

Clean Opening Animation

Clean Closing Animation

Utawarerumono: The False Faces - Complete Collection

Region: US Geo-lock|1

Publisher: King Records Company Ltd

Format: Standalone Blu-ray and DVD

Languages: English & Japanese (w/English subs)

Price (SRP): $99.98 (Blu-ray) and $79.98 (DVD)

Price (Rightstuf): $64.99 (Blu-ray) and $51.99 (DVD)

Extras:

Japanese Trailers

Japanese Shorts

Clean Opening Animation

Clean Closing Animation

Grav's Thoughts

I think I just realised something. For the past couple of months I've noticed Sentai haven't put out any collection sets for quite a while now. It looks like they have ditched the collection sets in favour of complete series sets instead, which would explain My Love Story and now Utawarerumono False Faces plus Gate (which is coming soon in 2017). I think Haikyu!! Second Season may also receive the same treatment as well, considering it's one of two remaining titles left from the Autumn 2015 season.

Anywho, here's the new additions:

Girls Beyond the Wasteland - Winter 2016 Season

Is the Order a Rabbit?? - Autumn 2015 Season

Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle - Winter 2016 Season

Utawarerumono: The False Faces - Autumn 2015 Season

Gatchaman II - Catalogue license

It's nice to see Utawarerumono fans getting their second season title released and also with a dub. The dub should be the same cast who worked on Season 1 and the OVA collection. The rest are subtitled only which tends to hit or miss people, especially the dub only fans.

The only re-release for this month is the limited edition release of My Love Story!! which was confirmed a while back and now it's here, and even more pricier than the Beyond the Boundary set to my surprise. Granted the show is a double-cour title so that's going to bump up the price tag, and considering the JP sets didn't have much to share in terms of extra content, at least Sentai did their best to have as much to offer for their release.

The surprise of the month is Gatchaman II, which I believe is part of that Tatsunoko package deal that Sentai have barely been using for the past few years.

Autumn 2014:

Tribe Cool Crew - Audio TBA - 50 eps - Sunrise

Spring 2015:

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma - Dub - 24 eps - Showgate

Summer 2015:

Gate - Dub - 12 eps - Showgate

Himouto! Umaru-chan - Dub - 12 eps - TOHO Animation

Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls - Dub - 12 eps - TOHO Animation

School-Live! - Audio TBA - 12 eps - Showgate

Ushio & Tora - Dub - 24 eps - Showgate

Autumn 2015:

Chivalry of a Failed Knight - Audio TBA - 12 eps - Showgste

Haikyu!! Second Season - Sub - 25 eps - TOHO Animation

Winter 2016:

Gate: Fire Dragon Arc - Dub - 12 eps - Showgate

Norn9: Norn+Nonet - Audio TBA - 12 eps - Satelight

Nurse Witch KOMUGI R - Audio TBA - 12 eps - NTV

Spring 2016:

Bakuon!! - Audio TBA - 12 eps - NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan

Flying Witch - Audio TBA - 12 eps - NTV

Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto - Audio TBA - 12 eps - TBS

Onigirl - Audio TBA - 12 eps - Pierrot Co., Ltd.

Rin-ne (Season 2) - Sub - 12 eps - ShoPro

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless - Audio TBA - 12 eps - Bandai Visual

Ushio and Tora (Season 2) - Dub - 12 eps - Showgate

And that's it for the month of April with Sentai. I hope Monster Musume is the next title getting the treatment next.