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Neon Genesis Evangelion Blu-ray Released Monday

On Monday December 6, Anime Limited will release its Neon Genesis Evangelion Collector's and standard Blu-rays. The Collector's Edition is exclusively available from the Zavvi website. The sets will contain the 26-episode Neon Genesis Evangelion television series and the films Evangelion: Death (True)2 and The End of Evangelion.

The Collector's set contains Official Dub and Subtitled versions, and an extra set of discs including the Classic Dub and Subtitled versions for both the TV series and the films. It will also include a 40-page book, eight art cards and bonus on-disc features.

The standard Blu-ray will include the Official Dub and Subtitled versions, but not the Classic Dub and Subtitled versions. It will also include the same on-disc extras as the Collector's set, except for the "Video format version" of The End of Evangelion.

Anime Limited announced on December 3 that it will receive a thousand units of the Evangelion Ultimate Edition "on or around" December 10, which will be in time to deliver in December. All remaining stock will arrive in early January 2022, and will ship as soon as possible.

Funimation will release Blu-ray and DVD editions of Code Geass Akito the Exiled. This is a spinoff from the original Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion television series. Set in between the two seasons of the original series during the Britannian invasion of Europe, Akito the Exiled centers around Akito Hyuga, a member of the "W-0" unit, a suicide outfit of exiled Japanese (Elevens) sent to the battlefield to perform dangerous missions against Britannia, with only a 5% survival rate.

The first episode debuted in Japan with a theatrical screening in 2012, and the fifth and final episode opened in cinemas in Japan in February 2016. Kazuki Akane (Birdy the Mighty: Decode, Vision of Escaflowne) directed and wrote the screenplay with Miya Asakawa (Turn A Gundam, Polar Bear's Café). As in the previous two television series, Takahiro Kimura adapted CLAMP's original character designs for animation. Akira Yasuda returned to design the mechanical Knightmare units with a soundtrack by Ichiko Hashimoto (RahXephon). The anime studio Sunrise, the previous Code Geass director Goro Taniguchi, and the previous series script supervisor Ichiro Okouchi are credited with the original story.

Funimation will also release a standard Blu-ray of the 4K UHD edition of Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 film Akira.

Funimation will also release a HMV-exclusive Blu-ray set of the American-compiled series Robotech. It will carry all 85 episodes of the series, which adapts Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Genesis Climber Mospeada and The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross. The set will include a transforming Veritech; an action figure of Ray Fokke; and military-style 3-inch patches.

MVM will release The Skull Man on DVD. In this 2007 series by the BONES studio, freelance journalist Hayato Mitogami returns to his hometown of Ootomo to investigate rumors of a man wearing a skull mask committing murders there. Once in the city, he discovers connections between the victims and a local pharmaceutical company, a new religious sect, and strange half human, half animal creatures. Along with a young photographer, Kiriko Mamiya, he decides to find out who the Skull Man really is.

Finally, Funimation will release the third season of Yu Yu Hakusho on Blu-ray, carrying episodes 57 to 84 of the series.