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Aniplex USA Details Home Video Releases for The Promised Neverland, Sword Art Online Alicization Anime
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Aniplex of America announced at its panel at the Anime NYC event on Friday that it will release the first season of The Promised Neverland anime on Blu-ray Disc on March 31, 2020. The release is available for pre-order on the Right Stuf retailer's website. The release will include English and Japanese audio tracks and Englsh subtitles, all 12 episodes of the first season, a deluxe booklet, and video extras such as a Japanese and English "Mix-up Video."
The company also announced it will release the first season of the Sword Art Online: Alicization anime on Blu-ray Disc on April 21, 2020. The set will include all 24 episodes plus episode 18.5.
The first season of The Promised Neverland anime premiered on January 10. Aniplex of America streamed the anime on Crunchyroll, Hulu, Funimation, and HIDIVE as it aired. Toonami began airing the anime on April 13. A second season of the anime will premiere in 2020.
Sword Art Online: Alicization premiered in Japan in October 2018, and is streaming on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and FunimationNow. The series is adapting the entire "Alicization Arc" of Reki Kawahara's original novels and will air for four cours, or four quarters of a year. The first two cours aired from October to March. The third cours under the title Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld premiered on October 12.
Sources: Aniplex USA's Anime NYC panel, Aniplex USA's Twitter account, Right Stuf
