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Anime Limited Updates
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Anime Limited has made the following announcements:
- Ping Pong: The Animation (pictured), previously scheduled for January, is now TBC. 'The reason this is quite simply unforeseen circumstances that does include something we've not previously mentioned that we are looking to have included that will be exclusive to our Collector's Edition release.'
- Mobile Suit Gundam Part 2 Blu-ray is scheduled for January 25. The first 1000 units come with a Limited Edition 48-page Art Book.
- Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo has been moved back to February 8.
- Expelled from Paradise has been moved back to 'release tentatively in March... A delay in approvals being the cause for this shift.'
- The Sword Art Online II: Part 3 Limited Collector's Edition Blu-ray/DVD and the Standard DVD release is scheduled for March. Part 4 is scheduled for Q2 2016.
- Re the Makoto Shinkai twin pack including The Place Promised in Our Early Days and Voices of a Distant Star: 'Things have progressed with this release and we're hoping we will be able to (finally) bring it to you during this first quarter of the year.'
- Assassination Classroom: The first season will be released on on Blu-ray and DVD over two half-season sets. The episode split will be 11 episodes in each half. Both the original Japanese audio and the English language dub will be included.'
- Aldnoah.Zero: It will be released in two sets, Season 1 (episodes 1-12) and Season 2 (episodes 13-24.) 'We're hoping to be able to release the first season during the second quarter of the year.'
- The following dates are now confirmed for the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2016:
The Anthem of the Heart (pictured)
7 February 2016, 3:05pm at ICA, London
14 February 2016, 8:55pm at QUAD, Derby
20 February 2016 at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
20 February 2016 at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
22 February 2016 at mac birmingham, Birmingham
19 March 2016 at Broadway, Nottingham
5 February 2016, 6:30pm at the ICA, London
6 February 2016 at Phoenix, Leicester
13 February 2016 at Watershed, Bristol
14 February 2016, 4:00pm at Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
14 February 2016, 6:45pm at QUAD, Derby
19 February 2016 at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
21 February 2016 at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
3 March 2016, 8:00pm at Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria
9 March 2016 at Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
20 March 2016 at HOME, Manchester