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Discotek Media Announces July Releases
Posted April 27, 2022 05:15 PM by
Discotek Media has announced its July batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire (2019), Powered Armor Dorvack: The Complete TV Series (1983-1984), Violence Jack: Complete OVA Collection (1986-1990), Heart and Yummie Collection (2010-2015), Lupin III: Prison of the Past (2019), Holmes of Kyoto: The Complete Series (2018), and Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990-1991).
Description: After a devastating natural disaster, the Kanto region in Japan is now a wasteland of lawlessness, where the weak are playthings of the strong. Ruled with an iron fist by the Slum King, the people of Kanto have no hope left to them, living at the whims of raiders and bandits. In this hellish world, there is only one man with the power to stand up for the powerless, and his name alone strikes terror into evil hearts--Violence Jack!
Whether he's saving women from sex camps, protecting the models of Zone C from those who covet their beauty, or exterminating a biker gang bent on destruction; if you oppress the weak, the only thing you can look forward to is a swift death from Jack's knife! Acclaimed artist and author Go Nagai is famous for pushing the boundaries of animation in Japan, and Violence Jack lives up to that reputation.
Bloody, violent, and with graphic depictions of cannibalism, sex, and other adult themes, it is by no means for kids! Experience the guts and gore of Nagai's original vision with all three original video animation episodes, uncut and uncensored on Blu Ray for the first time!
Description: When an alien force lands at the base of Mont Blanc, the proud armies of Earth mobilize to fight back! Colonel Takagi created the Dorvack Team and its fabulous transforming Variable Machines in preparation for this day, but the military bureaucracy has put its faith in powered armor infantry instead.
Undeterred, young pilots Masato, Louie, and Pierre seek to prove their worth. But as the Dorvack Team begins to climb the ranks, they'll learn at every turn how rarely real world battlefields turn out the way they do in movies. From the studio that created GoShogun, Power Armored Dorvack embraces the 80s robots trend begun by Gundam and Macross by placing its focus on smaller mass-produced robots and their role in a larger military operation. With tons of lushly shaded robot, vehicle, and powered armor action to boot! This complete collection includes all 36 episodes in standard definition, with the original Japanese language and English subtitles!
Description: When the Lupin gang gets wind of the news that Finnegan Corbett - fondly referred to as the "Modern Day Robin Hood" and a master thief equal to Lupin - is finally set to be executed, they travel to the Kingdom of Dorrente to break him loose.
Can the master thief conquer the notoriously impregnable prison El Guille and "steal" Finnegan? Or is there more to Finnegan's execution than meets the eye? Get ready for an action packed prison break adventure with Lupin and the gang, now available for the first time on Blu-ray!
Description: Famed teenaged detective Shinichi Kudo's been invited to Singapore! There's a karate championship being held in the technopolis's picturesque Marina Bay neighborhood, and Japan's undefeated Makoto Kyogoku has entered and asked his friends to join him, including Sonoko, Ran, and Shinichi himself. But Shinichi, constantly stuck in his pint-sized Detective Conan form, can't travel-- until he gets a surprise assist from none other than his larcenous rival, Kid the Phantom Thief!
Kid's got ulterior motives for bringing Conan to Singapore, but a troubling and bloody mystery emerges when Makoto's tournament sponsor turns up dead. She'd known something important about the grand prize, a coveted gemstone called the Fist of Blue Sapphire. The city-state's most accomplished detective, the wily Leon Lowe, quickly names the prime murder suspect: Kid himself!
The Fist of Blue Sapphire is the twenty-third film in the phenomenally popular Case Closed series. Based on Gosho Aoyama's renowned manga serial, these action-packed, big-screen adventures follow the gifted teenaged detective Shinichi Kudo, trapped in a much younger body and forced to use his wits, colorful inventions, and the power of friendship to solve mysteries as Detective Conan. This time, Conan must join his prodigious skills with Kid's daring and Makoto's fighting strength to clear Kid's name and thwart the real thieves!
Description: Holmes, a young man whose family runs an antique shop in Kyoto, has the unique ability to read people and instantly distinguish genuine and high value antiques. When a local high school student, Aoi Maki, starts working alongside Holmes, together they begin to unravel the many mysteries surrounding the antiques brought to the shop.
This complete collection includes all 12 episodes of the TV series in 1080p high definition, with the original Japanese language and English subtitles!
Description: Based on the popular Tyrannosaurus series of children's books by Tatsuya Miyanishi comes a collection of dinosaur tales that will capture our imagination.
In Heart and Yummie, Heart is a tyrannosaurus who is found and raised bv a herbivore mother. After learning his true nature as a meat eater, he runs away from home and finds a baby ankylosaurus egg that hatches and thinks Heart is his father. After accidentally naming the baby Yummie - thinking he looked tasty - their love for one another tests the bounds of nature vs. nurture.
In the Adventures of Tyrano Boy, Toron, a young tyrannosaurus boy is carried off downstream and loses his memory. While making his way back home, he discovers new friends and finds out that working together is the only way forward in life.
Also included is the 20 episode Heart and Yummie TV series adapting four of the children's books. These fanciful dinosaur tales will pull at your heartstrings!
Description: Remastered with supervision by the director, Yoshiaki Kawajiri!
The year is 2808. The place: Oedo, a cybernetic megalopolis of the future where the dreams of a brighter tomorrow are drowning in a tide of violence, vice and villainy. Driven to breaking point, the forces of law and order are left with no choice but to use the very criminals they capture to help hunt their own kind.
Enter hardened cyber criminals Sengoku, Gogul, and Benten. Presented by police chief Hasegawa with a stark choice, they must decide to either rot in jail for the rest of their lives, or join a special force of the Cyber Police and possibly get one more chance at freedom.With their less than subtle blend of extreme violence and excessive swearing, some hard justice is coming to Oedo.
With each criminal apprehended and each successful mission completed, the state will agree to reduce their sentences. But with each of them serving a 300-year stretch, and Hasegawa keeping them in line with explosive collars, will they survive long enough to be free men once again?
This complete OVA collection contains all 3 episodes remastered in 1080p high definition! Featuring the original Japanese language with English subtitles, and both the US and UK English dub mixes!
Discotek always has exciting announcements. Already put in pre-orders for Violence Jack, Dorvack and Lupin through the Right Stuf Anime website. Cheaper than Amazon and better packaging every time!
I’m surprised that this doesn’t mention that Prison of the Past in fact includes a English dub, but that both Holmes of Kyoto and Heart and Yummie are limited releases (1,500 and 2,000 copies respectively).
Is this release of Cyber City Oedo 808 supposed to have a different/improved print than Discotek's previous 2021 Blu-Ray release? I sure hope so because that print hasn't gotten very good reviews.