Houston-based anime distributor Section23 Films and Sentai Filmworks have detailed the Blu-ray release of
Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East, Season 1. The first 13-episode season of directors Mitsue Yamazaki and Osamu Yamazaki's fantasy epic series comes to Blu-ray on May 20th.
Official Synopsis: When their village was wiped out five years ago, there were only three young survivors: boys Shino Inuzuka and Sosuke Inukawa and the girl Hamaji. Through a quirk of fate, both boys share the same peony-shaped birthmark. Genpachi Inukai and Kobungo Inuta were raised hundreds of miles away as foster brothers, but they too share the same birthmark. When they went north as part of the army three years ago, they went to confront demons and came back forever transformed. Now the Imperial Church has come for Shino and Sosuke and they must find eight mystical gems and their owners or face a fate worse than death at the hands of the Church.
Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East, Season 1 features series episodes 1-13, 1080p video, lossless English and Japanese audio, and English subtitles. Special features include:
- Clean Opening Animation
- Clean Closing Animation
- Six Episode Audio Commentaries:
- "Boundary" with voice actors Satoshi Hino, Tetsuya Kakihara, Ayahi Takagakii and Nobuhiko Okamoto
- "Homecoming" with Hino, Kakihara, Tomoaki Maeno and Takuma Terashima
- "Divine Protection" with Hino, Kakihara, Takagakii and Daisuke Namikawa
- "Promise" with Hino, Kakihara, Junichi Miyake and Naomi Shindo
- "Guard" with Hino, Kakihara, Takagakii and Namikawa
- "Price Paid" with Hino, Kakihara and director Mitsue Yamasaki