
The North American anime distributor
Bandai Entertainment will release
Kazuki Akane's
Escaflowne movie on Blu-ray Disc on September 1. The release will include English and Japanese dubbing as well as English subtitles. (
Bandai Visual released the film on one Blu-ray Disc, pictured at right, in Japan in January of 2008.) The film is based on
The Vision of Escaflowne, an alternate-world fantasy anime series created by the
Sunrise anime studio,
Macross creator
Shōji Kawamori, and Akane;
Bandai Entertainment reissued the original television series in an "Anime Legends" DVD box set in 2006.