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Sentai Filmworks licenses K-ON! Season 2
Sentai Filmworks announced today that it has licensed the second season of the K-ON! anime series. The first season was licensed and released by Bandai Entertainment before the company ceased new releases, with a dub produced by Bang Zoom. Sentai will also have Bang Zoom produce a dub for the second season.
For two full years, Yui, Mio, Ritsu and Tsumugi have worked together to keep Sakuragaoka Girl’s High School’s struggling Light Music Club alive, and along the way they’ve begun to build a reputation as real rock musicians, especially since the previous year’s addition of underclassman rhythm guitarist Azusa!! But as a new school year begins, there are new and scary challenges ahead. With four fifths of the club graduating at the end of the year, replacement members have to be recruited. There are college exams to prepare for. There are colleges to choose. And there are friends to prepare to say goodbye to. But no matter what happens, they’ll have their faculty adviser and secret former Death Metal guitar/vocalist Sawako Yamada there to help them in her own unusual way, especially since she’s now their homeroom teacher as well!! And most of all, they’ll have each other. Because the group of amateur musicians who barely knew each other has become much more than just a band, and by the time this school year is over, they’re going to achieve something so amazing it requires multiple exclamation marks!! Get ready to be blown away as the girls from K-ON! rock on!!
Sentai will release the series on DVD and Blu-ray later this year.
[Source: ANN]
Funimation licenses Sengoku Basara – The Last Party, and Level E
Funimation announced at its Katuscon con panel earlier today that it has licensed the Sengoku Basara – The Last Party movie, based on the Sengoku Basara 3 game by Capcom. Funimation will release the movie in the Fall.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi is defeated, but feudal Japan isn’t safe yet. The fallen villain’s most loyal and lethal minion – Ishida Mitsunari – is obsessed with carrying on Toyotomi’s legacy of violence in the name of vengeance. Ishida brutally cuts a bloody path across the countryside, even as Tokugawa Ieyasu attempts to rally Date Masamune, Sanada Yukimura, and the nation’s other warlords toward an era of harmony. Unfortunately, for peace to finally be achieved, the fires of war must be unleashed once more. With Japan’s fate hanging in the balance, one of the most epic, over-the-top battles in history begins in Sengoku BASARA – Samurai Kings: The Movie!
Funimation also announced it had picked up the anime series Level E, based on the manga by Yu Yu Hakusho author Yoshihiro Togashi.
Currently, there are several hundred species of aliens on Earth, and humans are completely oblivious to their existence! One day an amnesic alien prince crash lands on the planet, and all hell breaks loose! Now the universe’s greatest mind, with the worst personality, has become Earth’s biggest royal pain.
Stuff I Bought This Week – February 17th
Gintama Collection 1
Plot Synopsis: “Life isn’t easy in feudal Japan… especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult career choice! This is especially true if they’re not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki Sakata’s opted for the freelance route, taking any job that’s offered to him as long as the money’s right.
Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed montsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza, and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don’t pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering, and indignities endured!”
I started watching Gintama last summer because it was on Crunchyroll and I was bored, and now it’s pretty much the only reason I have a Crunchyroll membership, though I’m only about 100 episodes into it at the moment. While it is a funny show most of the time, it does have it’s downsides, namely whenever it does a serious story and becomes a boring drama show, except for the Benizakura arc. That was a serious that was pretty good. But yeah, when it brings its A game its hilarious. One of my favourite things from recent memory would be an episode where the spirit in Gin’s sword tries to teach him and his group its ultimate attack only for Gin and co. to ignore and annoy him until he gives up, while at the same time a goddess, naked with hair covering her boobs, tries to teach the Shinsengumi an ultimate attack and they arrest her for public indecency.
Since I like the show so much I figured I might as well finally buy the DVDs. Eerily enough, right after I ordered this set Sentai announced they would be releasing the movie, and it comes out on my birthday. So things worked out pretty great for me. Hopefully they’ll release more of the series eventually.
Sentai Filmworks licenses Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works film
Sentai Filmworks announced today that it has licensed the god-awful Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works film. This god-awful film is a god-awful adaptation of the Unlimited Blade Works story line from the Fate/Stay Night visual novel. And it sucks.
Having spent the last ten years of his life studying under a mysterious sorcerer, Shiro Emiya has become a Magi, a sorcerer who has summoned a “Servant,” a mystical female warrior of incredible power named Saber, to stand together in the ultimate test of sorcery and magic: the Holy Grail War. But Shiro’s own feelings for Saber may conflict with their goal. For to win the contest means to take the risk of losing everything, even as he also begins to empathize with members of the rival battleteams. For while seven teams will enter the battle, only one will leave, and the winners will receive the prize of the Grail itself and their greatest wish granted. Will that wish be worth the price Shiro must ultimately pay? The battle is on in FATE/STAY NIGHT – UNLILMITED BLADE WORKS!
Sentai will release the god-awful film on DVD and Blu-ray, and will be dubbing it because I guess they really want to piss away money on this thing.
The point I’m trying to make here is that this movie suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
