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Sentai Adds Skull Man, Maria Holic Anime in February
posted on by Egan Loo
The North American anime distributor Section23 Films has announced on Friday that Sentai Filmworks has licensed the Skull Man and Maria Holic anime series. Section23 will ship the complete DVD sets for these two anime on February 2 and February 23, respectively.
The Skull Man anime adapts the manga of the same name from pioneering storyteller Shotaro Ishinomori (Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009, Harmagedon). The title character is a mysterious figure in a skull mask who has been committing murders in alternate-history version of Japan. Ishinomori personally chose Kazuhiko Shimamoto to continue The Skull Man manga just before he passed away in 1998, and Tokyopop published Shimamoto's retelling in North America.
Section23 also announced that the second volume of the To Love-Ru anime will ship on February 16. The company will distribute Switchblade Pictures' live-action Kirenji Women's College collection on February 9 and Switchblade's live-action Ryuji the Yakuza collection on February 23.
Update: More background and story information added.
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