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Cardcaptor Sakura and Dragon Ball Super Collections Released Monday

Anime Limited's Collectors Blu-ray set of the 1998 series Card Captor Sakura, including the 70 episodes of the series on ten discs, is listed on Anime Limited's website as being available on Monday July 25. Anime Limited Tweeted last Thursday that copies of the title had arrived at the company, although the Amazon UK and Anime On Line websites are currently listing the title for August 8.

The set is authored from a 4K scan of the original series materials, and will include a 16-page booklet. It will feature English dual mono and Japanese 5.1 audio with English subtitles.

Madhouse's anime adaptation of CLAMP's Cardcaptor Sakura manga aired in Japan from April 1998 to March 2000. The series is described on the AllTheAnime site:

"Ten-year-old Sakura lives a pretty normal life with her older brother, Toya, and widowed father, Fujitaka. Or she did, until the day she returned home from school to discover a glowing book in her father's study. After opening the book and releasing the cards within, Sakura is tasked with collecting each of these magical cards, while trying to live the life of a normal fourth grader."

Funimation will release a collected edition of Dragon Ball Super in both Blu-ray and DVD editions; each edition carries the full series on twenty discs. Funimation describes the title:

"After defeating Majin Buu, life is peaceful once again. Goku has taken a completely new role as a…radish farmer?! With Earth at peace, our heroes have settled into normal lives. But they can't get too comfortable. Far away, a powerful god awakens to a prophecy revealing his demise at the hands of a formidable being. Can Goku and his friends take on their strongest foe yet? Dragon Ball Super is back with the complete series in an exclusive premium edition."

MVM will release a Collector's Blu-ray edition of the series Release the Spyce. This edition includes a 104-page perfect-bound softcover booklet, and six two-sided art cards. MVM describes the anime:

"Momo Minamoto is a normal high school student who dreams of one day becoming a police officer like her late father, but when she investigates the case of a missing friend, she quickly finds herself being recruited into the ranks of the Tsukikage, a group of high school girl spies with above average abilities and the ferocious fighting skills needed to take on any fiend who foments foulness and corruption."

The project was a collaboration between Yuruyuri manga creator Namori as original character designer and Yuki Yuna Is a Hero creator Takahiro for the original concept and series composition. The anime marked Akira Satō's directorial debut at Lay-duce. Satoshi Ishino adapted Namori's characters for animation. SORASAKI.F was credited for the original work.