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Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Industry News: Crunchyroll x Funimation September 2018 Release Slate

Funimation brings us another big batch of anime including a new line of re-releases presumably replacing the S.A.V.E. editions called 'Essentials'. Also we have a few fan favourites of 2017 finally making a release.

UPDATE: This release slate has been tweaked due to changes made weeks after its reveal.


The September 2018 release slate features the following:
 - 9 new Crunchyroll licensed titles including on-going part releases
 - 2 Crunchyroll re-released titles: 1 Classics, 1 Essentials
 - 12 Funimation re-released titles: 6 Classics, 2 Essentials, 3 complete sets, 1 collection set

Due to the constant confusion over what regions the shows are exactly, I've added a 'Regions (not final)' note for the select Crunchyroll titles. The others I can expect to be completely region locked otherwise.

September 4th:


Bungo Stray Dogs: Complete Season 2 (Limited Edition)
Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $84.98
Regions (not final): A|B|1|2|4
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures + Crunchyroll
Extras: OVA, Promo Video, Commercials, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers
Extras (LE): Box


Bungo Stray Dogs: Complete Season 2 (Standard Edition)
Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $64.98
Regions (not final): A|B|1|2|4
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures + Crunchyroll
Extras: OVA, Promo Video, Commercials, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


NEW GAME!: Complete Season 2
Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $64.98
Regions (not final): A|B|1|2|4
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures + Crunchyroll
Extras: Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers

September 4th (Re-releases):


Death Parade: Complete Series (Classics)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $49.98
Regions (not final): A
Publisher: NTV
Extras: Episode Commentaries (3, 12), OVA - Death Billiards, Playing with House Money, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


The Future Diary: Complete Series & Redial OVA (Classics)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $69.98
Regions (not final): A
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures
Extras: Redial OVA, Episode Commentaries (5, 13, 20, 23), Omake #5 Yomotsu Hirasaka (Yoshihisa Kawahara Version), Omake #10 Minene Uryuu, Masumi Nishijima (Clear Dialogue Version), TV Spots, Promotional Videos, U.S. Trailer, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


High School DxD New: Complete Series (Classics)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $49.98
Regions (not final): A|B
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures
Extras: High School DxD New Broadcast Commemoration Special: Yoko Hikasa's Voice Acting School, New Material from Ichiei Ishibumi! Fantasy Full-blast Gentleman's Disc Club Promos, Commercials, Promotional Videos, U.S. Trailer, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers

September 11th:


AOKANA: Four Rhythm Across the Blue: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $64.98
Regions (not final): A|1
Publisher: GONZO + Crunchyroll
Extras: Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers

September 11th (Re-releases):


ReLIFE: Complete Series (Classic)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $49.98
Regions (not final): A|B
Publisher: TMS Entertainment Ltd + Crunchyroll
Extras: Episode 13 Commentary, Promo Video, Textless Opening Song, Trailers

Tokyo Ghoul: Complete Season 1 (Classic)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $49.98
Regions (not final): A|B
Publisher: Pierrot Co. Ltd
Extras: Kankei in Black and White, Episode Commentaries (4, 12), Japanese Commercials, Promotional Videos, Preview Collection, U.S. Trailer, Textless Opening & Closing Song, Trailers


Yona of the Dawn: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $69.98
Regions (not final): A|B
Publisher: Pierrot Co. Ltd
Extras: Episode Commentaries (4, 8, 16, 24), Promotional Videos & TV Spots, U.S. Trailer, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers

September 18th:


Saga of Tanya the Evil: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $64.98
Regions (not final): A|B|1|2|4
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures + Crunchyroll
Extras: Promo Videos, Commercials, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


Twin Star Exorcists: Part 2
Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $54.98
Regions (not final): A|1
Publisher: TV TOKYO + Crunchyroll
Extras: Hanae Natsuki & Han Megumi's Twin Star Room Vol. 4-6, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers

September 18th (Re-releases):


Alderamin on the Sky: Complete Series (Essentials)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $29.98
Regions (not final): A|B
Publisher: Warner Bros Japan + Crunchyroll
Extras: Web Previews, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


Assassination Classroom: Complete Season 2
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $69.98
Regions (not final): A|B
Publisher: Fuji Creative Corportation
Extras: Episode Commentaries (3, 5, 15, 23), The Many Faces of Koro Sensei, Top Ten Moments: Assassination Classroom Season 2, Previews, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


Gosick: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $69.98
Regions (not final): A
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures
Extras: Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


SERVAMP: Complete Series (Essentials)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $29.98
Regions (not final): A
Publisher: Hakuhodo DY MAP
Extras: All the World's a Stage, Sleepy Life of Servamp Parts 1-3, Episode 1 Audio Commentary, Episode 11 Video Commentary, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers

September 25th:


Brave Witches: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $64.98
Regions (not final): A|B|1|2|4
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures + Crunchyroll
Extras: Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


Gintama: Series 3 Part 2 (Episodes 292-316)
Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $54.98
Regions (not final): A|1
Publisher: TV TOKYO + Crunchyroll
Extras: Trailers


WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $64.98
Regions (not final): A|1
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures + Crunchyroll
Extras: Trailers

September 25th (Re-releases):


High School DxD BorN: Complete Series (Classics)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $49.98
Regions (not final): A|B
Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures
Extras: Maximum Titillation OVA, Promotional Videos, U.S. Trailer, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


One Piece: Collection 22 (Episodes 517-540)
Format: DVD
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $34.98
Regions (not final): 1
Publisher: Toei Animation
Extras: Episode Commentaries (519, 526, 532, 534), One Piece Cast Goes to Matsuricon 2016: Live Dub, One Piece Cast Goes to Matsuricon 2016: Q and A Panel, Textless Opening Songs, and Trailers


SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist: Complete Series (Essentials)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $29.98
Regions (not final): A|B
Publisher: King Records Company Ltd
Extras: Episode Commentaries (1, 12), Moms Watch SHIMONETA, Promotional Videos, Web Previews, Textless Opening & Closing Songs, Trailers


Tokyo Ghoul √A: Complete Series (Classic)
Format: Blu-ray
Audio: English & Japanese
Suggested Retail Price: $49.98
Regions (not final): A|B
Publisher: Pierrot Co. Ltd
Extras: Episode Commentaries (1, 12), Episode 7 Video Commentary, Promotional Videos, U.S. Trailer, Textless Opening Song, Trailers

Grav's Thoughts on the Line-up:


Here are the new additions from the previous seasons in this release slate:

On-Going Part Titles:
Gintama Series 3 (Part 2 of 2)
Twin Star Exorcists (Part 2 of 4)

Winter 2016:
AOKANA: Four Rhythm Across the Blue

Autumn 2016:
Brave Witches
Bungo Stray Dogs Season 2

Winter 2017:
Saga of Tanya the Evil

Spring 2017:
WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?

Summer 2017:
NEW GAME! Season 2

So we have another weird release slate.

Let's get this part out of the way, we have a new label introduced in a similar fashion to the Classics label from the previous month. This one is called Essentials and it's basically the same design but with a different name. I'm convinced this will be the new version of the S.A.V.E. Edition line or at least the middle ground between the two. Titles included in this Essentials line are Alderamin on the Sky, SERVAMP and SHIMONETA. All are available on Blu-ray at the very least.

Next we have the next batch of Classics in this month. The following now included in the Classics line are Death Parade, The Future Diary, High School DxD BorN & New, ReLIFE and Tokyo Ghoul Season 1 & √A. Once again they are all available on Blu-ray.

Now for the new additions, all from the Crunchyroll label. Sadly there are no limited edition releases in this release slate which is terrible because both Saga of Tanya the Evil and WorldEnd warranted one but for some bizarre reason they are just standard sets. Heck Bungo Stray Dogs Season 2 should have gotten one as well since the first season did but once again they pulled a Berserk/Tales of Zestiria instead. I question Funimation's logic at times.

Catalogue wise they did bring AOKANA and Brave Witches to home video at least. All of the titles added in this line-up are dubbed in English so there are no subtitled only releases. I can forgive Re:ZERO's second part not receiving one as the first part's limited edition does include a slot for this release. Same goes with Twin Star Exorcists.

We also have more One Piece collection sets and I know most folks are more or less asking for more Voyages instead.

That's it for the month of September. Here are the list of remaining titles (with the Crunchyroll titles not-final but have been distributed in some form):

The Completely Forgotten Funimation Backlog:
Concrete Revolutio
Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou - The Last Song
D.Gray-man HALLOW [Dubbed]
Ghost in the Shell: Arise Alternative Architecture
Minami-ke Tadaima
Pretear
Psycho Pass: Extended Edition
The Tatami Galaxy
Venus Project -Climax-

The Crunchyroll Backlog:
Ange Vierge
Big Order [Dubbed]
Bloodivores
Cerberus
Dream Festival
Fate/Kaleid liner Prisma Illya Drei!!
The Highschool Life of Fudanshi
Hitorinoshita – The Outcast
Hybrid×Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia [Dubbed]
Komori-san Can’t Decline!
Konosuba
Lostorage Incited WIXOSS
Magical Girl Raising Project [Dubbed]
Magical Somera-chan
Miss Bernard Said
Miss Monochrome the Animation (Season 1) [Dubbed]
Miss Monochrome the Animation (Season 2)
Miss Monochrome the Animation (Season 3)
Ojisan and Marshmallow
Ooya-san wa Shishunki!
Poco’s Udon World
Shonen Ashibe: Go! Go! Goma-chan (Season 1)
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

Winter 2017:
Chain Chronicle -The Light of Haecceitas- [Dubbed]
Forest Fairy Five
Gabriel DropOut
Gintama (Season 4)
Idol Incidents
Kemono Friends
Konosuba (Season 2)
MARGINAL#4 Big Bang
Masamune-kun's Revenge [Dubbed]
Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club
Nanbaka (Season 2) [Dubbed]
Piacevole!
Schoolgirl Strikers
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju: Descending Stories

Spring 2017:
Love Tyrant [Dubbed]
The Silver Guardian [Dubbed]

Summer 2017:
Hina Logic - from Luck and Logic [Dubbed]
THE REFLECTION [Dubbed]
Restaurant to Another World [Dubbed]

Autumn 2017:
The Ancient Magus' Bride [Dubbed]
Animegataris [Dubbed]
Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond [Dubbed]
Code:Realize: Guardian of Rebirth [Dubbed]
Dies Irae [Dubbed]
Garo -VANISHING LINE- [Dubbed]
Juni Taisen: Zodiac War [Dubbed]
King's Game the Animation [Dubbed]
Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World [Dubbed]
Konohana Kitan [Dubbed]
Love Live! Sunshine!! (Season 2) [Dubbed]
Recovery of an MMO Junkie [Dubbed]
A Sister's All You Need [Dubbed]
Urahara [Dubbed]

Winter 2018:
Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls [Dubbed]
Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card [Dubbed]
Citrus [Dubbed]
Dagashi Kashi (Season 2) [Dubbed]
DARLING in the FRANXX [Dubbed]
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody [Dubbed]
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens [Dubbed]
Hakyuu Houshin Engi [Dubbed]
The Junji Ito Collection [Dubbed]
Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko [Dubbed]
OVERLORD II [Dubbed]
The Silver Guardian (Season 2) [Dubbed]
Teasing Master Takagi-san [Dubbed]
Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru (Season 2) [Dubbed]

Spring 2018:
Dances with the Dragons [Dubbed]
Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory [Dubbed]
Golden Kamuy [Dubbed]
High School DxD Hero [Dubbed]
Hinamatsuri [Dubbed]
Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits- [Dubbed]
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These [Dubbed]
My Hero Academia (Season 3) [Dubbed]
Space Battleship Tiramisu [Dubbed]
Steins;Gate 0 [Dubbed]
Tokyo Ghoul:re [Dubbed]

Summer 2018:
Angel of Death [Dubbed]
Attack on Titan (Season 3) [Dubbed]
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord [Dubbed]
The Master Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar [Dubbed]
OVERLORD III [Dubbed]

Sunrise Package Deal:
Angel Links [Dubbed]
Banner of the Stars [Dubbed]
Banner of the Stars II [Dubbed]
Crest of the Stars [Dubbed]
Passage of the Stars "Birth"
Tales of the Abyss
Witch Hunter Robin [Dubbed]

Catalogue titles (Movies):
Attack on Titan: Crimson Bow and Arrow
Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom
Attack on Titan Season 2: The Roar of Awakening
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Movie 1
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Movie 2
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Movie 3
Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution Movie 2
Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution Movie 3
Free! Take Your Marks
Free! Timeless Medley Movie 1
Free! Timeless Medley Movie 2
High Speed! Free! Starting Days

Catalogue titles (TV):
Black Clover (Parts 2-5) [Dubbed]
Monster Hunter Stories: Ride-On (Part 4) [Dubbed]
Nanbaka (Part 2) [Dubbed]
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Part 2) [Dubbed]
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 [Dubbed]
Twin Star Exorcists (Parts 3-4) [Dubbed]

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