For those whom may have not headed down to the shops yet, Hanabee are the first off the bat in releasing their May 2013 releases, with Siren Visual and Madman Entertainment to do their own releases later this month. These releases include Kids on the Slope (DVD and Blu-ray), Hakuoki: A Memory of Snow Flowers (DVD) and of course another one of their “book packaging” releases Nisemonogatari Part 1.
Just a few notes that have arisen from the companies official Facebook page however:
- Their Blu-ray releases of Kids on the Slope do seem to suffer from the same audio issues as the Sentai Filmworks edition which recently caused issues within the North American market (Episode 11 featuring only mono audio for the Japanese dub). They are looking at how to rectify this issue.
- Nisemonogatari’s special features will be featured in Part 2. AS WELL, the company were not able to obtain audio commentary for the episodes in order to keep in line with the edition Aniplex of America released.
Other than that, be sure to check them out if they are of interest to you.