FUNimation has announced its October Blu-ray slate, which includes
Sankarea: Complete Series,
We Without Wings: Season 1,
Eureka Seven AO: Part 2,
Blood-C: The Last Dark and
Sakura Wars: The Movie. Each week in August is home to at least one title's high definition release.
Sankarea: Complete Series (Street date: October 1st)
Synopsis: Furuya's not interested in the living, he's got zombies on the brain! When Furuya's cat dies, he decides he's going to try and bring it back to life. In the process, he stumbles across a girl whose failed attempted suicide has turned her into a real zombie! What's Furuya going to do now that the thing he loves the most is right in front of his eyes? Watch what happens in this campy romantic comedy about the undead.
Sankarea: Complete Series is being made available via Limited Edition and standard Blu-ray/DVD combo packs. Both versions feature English and Japanese audio with English subtitles. Extras have yet to be detailed.
We Without Wings: Season 1 (Street date: October 8th)
Synopsis: Timid Takashi wants to escape to an alternate world where he is a heralded knight, but is held back by thoughts of his younger sister and his girlfriend. Part-timer and all-around upbeat guy Shuusuke has a disastrous first encounter with a woman who turns out to be his new co-worker. Handyman Hayato is a hard-boiled loner who has random encounters with two gangs and a girl with a uniform fetish. Throw in plenty of fan-service, random humor, an alternate medieval world, and your narrator DJ Condor.
Originally scheduled to release on September 3rd, We Without Wings: Season 1 contains episodes 1-12 plus 00, and is being made available via Limited Edition and standard Blu-ray/DVD combo packs. Both versions feature English and Japanese audio with English subtitles, and the following extras:
- Audio Commentary on Episodes 4 and 8
- Textless Opening
- Textless Closings
- U.S. Trailer
- Additional Trailers
Eureka Seven AO: Part 2 (Street date: October 15th)
Synopsis: The electrifying successor to the mecha epic
Eureka Seven propels fans through intense, eye-popping action in the sky, sea, and space one battle at a time. The year is 2025. Earth is engulfed in the crossfire between massive warring alien life forms that leave annihilation in their wake. While searching for clues about his past, Ao is caught in an attack and forced to fly a giant humanoid fighter craft to save himself and his island. Fragments of the teenager's origin come to light when a hostile shape-shifter seeking revenge on Ao's missing mother—who vanished two years after his birth—targets him instead. Consumed with learning how his machine of war is connected to his mother and the monster that now pursues him, the young pilot will fly full throttle into combat zones without hesitation.
Eureka Seven AO: Part 2 is being made available via a standard Blu-ray/DVD combo pack featuring English and Japanese audio with English subtitles. Extras have yet to be detailed. Eureka Seven AO: Part 1 releases on August 13th.
Blood-C: The Last Dark (Street date: October 22nd)
Synopsis: Tokyo, Winter. Despite the use of the Youth Ordinance Bill to enforce curfews for minors and regulate the use of the Internet, young people continue to fight for their own freedom through underground methods. One such group calls themselves Surat. They have decided to take on Fumito Nanahara, a man who has great influence on the political world, and basically controls Tokyo with an iron fist. While using the Internet as a weapon to discover more information about Fumito, they learn about Tower, a secret organization behind Fumito which engages in human experimentation. When members of Surat attempt to set up an ambush in the subway to expose the truth behind Tower, mysterious creatures suddenly appear and attack the passengers. During this crisis, a young girl named Saya, armed with a Japanese blade to slay the Old Ones, appears as well. The same Saya who lost everything dear to her in that horrifying incident in Ukishima Province. Now, the final battle begins.
Blood-C: The Last Dark is a 105-minute film that picks up where the Blood-C series left off, and arrives in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack featuring English and Japanese audio with English subtitles. Extras have yet to be detailed. Blood-C: The Complete Series is already available on Blu-ray.
Sakura Wars: The Movie (Street date: October 22nd)
Synopsis: Originally released in Japan in 2001,
Sakura Wars: The Movie is produced by Production I.G. and features CG animation of steampunk-esque technology and exciting mech battles. The story follows the heroines of the Flower Division, stars of the stage by day and mech pilots by night, who defend 1920s Japan from evil.
Sakura Wars: The Movie arrives in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack featuring English and Japanese audio with English subtitles. Extras have yet to be detailed.
Warning: Adult Content