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Samurai Champloo U.K. Blu-ray Released on Monday

On Monday July 22, MVM will release a Collector's Blu-ray edition of Shinichiro Watanabe's 2004 series Samurai Champloo, including art cards. The series is described by MVM as follows:

"Death, betrayal, and... hip hop. Mugen's a buck wild warrior: violent, thoughtless and womanizing. Jin is a vagrant ronin: mysterious, traditional, well-mannered and very strong. These two fiercely independent warriors couldn't be more different from one another, yet their paths cross when Fuu, a ditzy waitress, saves them from being executed when they are arrested after a violent swordfight. Fuu convinces the two vagrant young men to help her find a mysterious samurai 'who smells of sunflowers.' And their journey begins."

Anime Limited will release three separate Blu-rays of the 1980s films Mobile Suit Gundam I (pictured left), Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow and Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space. Released in 1981 and 1982, the films retell the story of the original 1979 series Mobile Suit Gundam, with new scenes and dialogue.

The film trilogy is also available in an exclusive single box-set edition from the AllTheAnime website, which also includes a 68-page booklet.

Crunchyroll will release the first TV season of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. Seven Seas Entertainment is publishing the novels in English, and it describes the story:

Fifteen-year-old Yuna prefers staying home and obsessively playing her favorite VRMMO game to doing anything else, including going to school. When a strange new update gives her a one-of-a-kind bear outfit that comes with overpowered abilities, Yuna is torn: the outfit is unbearably cute, but too embarrassing to wear in-game. But then she suddenly finds herself transported into the world of the game, facing down monsters and magic for real, and the bear suit becomes the best weapon she has!

Yuu Nobuta (High School Fleet, A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd) directed the anime at EMT Squared. Takashi Aoshima (Himouto! Umaru-chan, Yuruyuri - Happy Go Lily) was in charge of the series scripts, and Yuki Nakano (A Destructive God Sits Next to Me) designed the characters.

Kumanano began serializing the ongoing story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Become Novelists) website in 2014. Shufu to Seikatsu Sha began publishing the story in print with art by 029 in May 2015. Sergei launched the manga on Shufu to Seikatsu Sha's Comic Pash! manga website in 2014.

Crunchyroll will also release a Blu-ray of The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World, the anime of Kiichi Kosuzu's Saikyō Onmyōji no Isekai Tenseiki (A Record of the Strongest Onmyōji's Reincarnation to Another World) light novel series.

The novel series centers on Haruyoshi, who is the strongest onmyōji (diviner) in his world. He's betrayed by his friends and, on the verge of death, he wishes to be happy in his next life. He then attempts a secret reincarnation spell. The spell is a success and he is reincarnated, but somehow it's in another world. He is reborn into a distinguished family of wizards, but is judged to have no magical ability. He soon realizes however that the magic in this world is nothing compared to his old onmyō arts, and he declares that he doesn't need magic. He thus begins his easy life in another world with his onmyō arts and a multitude of yōkai creatures who follow him

Ryōsuke Shibuya (Smile Down the Runway, Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan) directed the anime at Studio Blanc, with Nobuyoshi Nagayama (Smile Down the Runway, Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan) credited as chief director. Touko Machida (Smile Down the Runway, Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan) wrote and supervised the scripts, and Masayoshi Kikuchi and Sayaka Ueno designed the characters. Arisa Okehazama (Jujutsu Kaisen) composed the music.

Kosuzu began publishing the novels on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in December 2018. Futabasha began publishing the novels in print in July 2019. Toshinori Okazaki began drawing a manga adaptation of the novels in 2020 on Futabasha's GauGau Monster website and app.

Crunchyroll will also release a Blu-ray of I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too.

Yen Press is releasing the light novels and manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

A door to another world stretches out before a boy who's been brutally bullied all his life. This alternate reality grants him access to all sorts of things, like cheat skills and a portal that lets him travel between his old and new worlds! Can this class loser turn his life around back home...?

The book franchise has 2 million copies in circulation worldwide.

UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS planned and produced the anime. Millepensee produced the animation. Shin Itagaki (Teekyū franchise, So I'm a Spider, So What?) was the chief director and also oversaw the series scripts. Shingo Tanabe (episode director for So I'm a Spider, So What?, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean) directed the anime. Hiromi Kimura adapted the characters for animation from Rein Kuwashima's original designs, and also served as chief animation director. Akiyuki Tateyama composed the music. Tsukuyomi performed the opening theme song "Gyakuten Geki" (Turnabout Drama).

Anime Limited will release a standard Blu-ray edition of the 2019 series Babylon. (An exclusive Collector's Blu-ray of Babylon is already available from the AllTheAnime site, including a booklet and art cards.)

The suspense story centers around Zen Seizaki, a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles across a conspiracy over an election for an autonomous "new zone" established in western Tokyo.

The anime is based on Mado Nozaki's Babylon novels; it was produced by Revoroot, and Twin Engine was also credited for production. Kodansha's novel label Kodansha Taiga released the novels' first volume in 2015.

Anime Limited will also release a standard Blu-ray of the second half of Mobile Fighter G Gundam, carrying episodes 25 to 49 of the series.