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By The Grace of the Gods and The Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat Released Monday

On Monday February 14, Funimation will release By the Grace of the Gods on Blu-ray.

It is adapted from author Roy and illustrator Ririnra's By the Grace of the Gods (Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko) light novel series. Takeyuki Yanase (In Another World With My Smartphone, If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord) directed the anime at Maho Film (If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord), and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Black Clover, Dropkick on My Devil!) was the story editor and screenwriter. Kaho Deguchi (If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord, Cutie Honey Universe) designed the characters and served as chief animation director, with Ririnra credited with the original character designs.

Hiroaki Tsutsumi composed the music at Lantis, and Masanori Tsuchiya directed the sound at AMG Studio. Aki Watanabe was the colour key artist, and Satoshi Shibata directed the art. Yukina Nomura was the compositing director of photography.

J-Novel Club is publishing the novels digitally in English, and it describes the story:

Under the protection of the gods, a relaxed life with slimes in another world begins!
One day, the life of middle-aged Japanese businessman Ryoma Takebayashi came to a rather sudden and disappointing end. Ryoma had never had a blessed life, but after his death, three great gods sought his cooperation and reincarnated him as a child in another world with swords and magic!
Receiving a most cordial and divine welcome from the gods, Ryoma decides to live leisurely on his own in the forest for the time being. Working diligently at magic and hunting, Ryoma's greatest passion comes to be researching his tamed slimes?! Training a variety of slimes (some newly discovered), the curtain rises on this easygoing life fantasy celebrating a second life with kind people in another world!

MVM will release a Blu-ray edition of The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat. Sou Sagara's original light novels centre around a second-year high school boy named Yōto Yokodera (played by Yūki Kaji). Yōto is always thinking about his "carnal desires," but no one acknowledges him as a pervert. He learns about a cat statue that supposedly grants wishes. The boy goes to pray that he will be able to express his lustful thoughts whenever and wherever he wants. At the statue, Yōto encounters Tsukiko Tsutsukakushi (Yui Ogura), a girl from his high school with her own wish — that she would not display her "real intentions" so readily.

Youhei Suzuki (episode director on Karin, Kimikiss pure rouge, Nodame Cantabile: Finale) is making his debut as the director of a full series at J.C. Staff. Haruko Iizuka (Little Busters!, Inu X Boku Secret Service, Tamayura) is adapting Kantoku's original character illustrations from the light novel series for the anime. Michiko Itou (Ōkami-san & Her Seven Companions, Ro-Kyu-Bu!, Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise) is in charge of the series scripts. The show will also co-star Kaori Ishihara as Azusa Azuki and Yukari Tamura as The King of Steel.

Anime Limited will release a Collectors Blu-ray edition of the 2000 series Boogiepop Phantom, including a 72-page art booklet. Crunchyroll described the story:

"Five years ago, a string of grisly murders shook the city to its core. Now, panic and terror have returned and this time it has a name: Boogiepop. Everyone knows about Boogiepop: Death incarnate, she stalks the night in search of fresh victims. Meet her and you simply... vanish. In the darkness, glass shatters and time stands still. There's something out there and it's coming closer. Are you safe?"

Madhouse animated the 2000 television anime based on the Boogiepop light novel series.

Anime Limited will also release three separate standard Blu-rays carrying the series Revolutionary Girl Utena. The first Blu-ray (pictured) will carry episodes 1 to 12; the second Blu-ray will carry episodes 13 to 24; and the third Blu-ray will carry episodes 25 to 39.

Anime Limited will also release a Collector's Blu-ray edition of the 2004 Sunrise series My-HiME, including a 44-page art booklet. Bandai Entertainment described the series:

Before coming to the Fuka Academy, all Mai Tokiha wanted was to live an ordinary high school life, but that's the last thing she's going to get. It turns out that Mai is a HiME, one of twelve girls with supernatural powers that are gathered at this school to fight the Orphans, demons that dwell around the school. A secret organization has other plans for the HiME than just demon-busting and Mai and the other HiME will have to risk something precious to protect the ones they love.