Coming up to their plans for (almost) the end of this year, North American anime publisher Sentai has announced a set of six home video releases they will be bringing to Blu-ray throughout the month of November 2023. Scroll down to see if any of your favourite series made the cut, and may be worth nabbing a copy of:
The Familiar of Zero
Release Date: 7 November 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: Japanese audio with English Subtitles
Price: $99.98 USD
Runtime: 1250 Minutes
Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière’s name is longer than her list of positive accomplishments at the Tristain Academy of Magic. Cursed by her fellow students with the horrible nickname “Louise the Zero”, she hopes that summoning a surprisingly strong Familiar will turn her luck around… but instead of some cool mythical creature, Louise summons a normal human from Japan! Now Sato Hiraga is magically bound to an incompetent sorceress, but there may be more to her seemingly mediocre magical powers than meets the eye in the spellbindingly complete collection of FAMILIAR OF ZERO!
Rail Wars
Release Date: 14 November 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: Japanese audio with English Subtitles
Price: $49.98 USD
Runtime: 300 Minutes
Naoto Takayama has always been loco for locomotives and dreams of sitting in the big cab up front. When he’s accepted to the Rail Training Academy, he hooks up with Haruka and Aoi, two well-engineered young women he already knew, and a beefy guy named Sho, and they turn out to work so well together that their trainee tickets are upgraded to on-the-job training on a very different career track: security! But at least Naoto still gets to blow a whistle, and there’s always something interesting going on… even if that may mean something life-threatening like train robbers, thieves, and bomb threats, as they all keep working on the railroad, all the live long day, in RAIL WARS!
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon Season 4 Part 1
Release Date: 21 November 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English and Japanese Audio
Price: $69.98 USD
Runtime: 300 Minutes
How low can someone go in the mammoth Dungeon of Orario and still return? With Bell recovering from his last fight, the Hestia Familia receives a mission that they can’t refuse: traveling deeper into the Dungeon than they ever have before! Fortunately, missions are what friends are for, and Hestia manages to borrow a few of the Miach and Takemikazuchi Familias’ heaviest hitters. Unfortunately, no one listens to Cassandra’s warnings once again and things immediately start to go wrong. Now the team is split, Ryu’s accused of a horrible crime, and Bell charges ahead to try clearing her name as everyone races to the lower floors in the first half-series collection of IS IT WRONG TO TRY TO PICK UP GIRLS IN A DUNGEON? SEASON 4! Danmachi – Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Season 4 Part 1!
Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time (Steelbook Ed)
Release Date: 21 November 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English and Japanese Audio
Price: $129.98 USD
Runtime: 150 Minutes
The heat is on again for Peter Grill as the world’s most powerful warrior finds himself in the crosshairs of the lusty ladies who seek a penetrating infusion of his potent DNA to create the perfect offspring. Why can’t they accept that he just wants to marry his fiancé and concentrate on being a hero and fighting goblins and stuff? Oh wait, they probably do it because, despite his sister’s desperate efforts to keep him from wandering astray, this is one Peter who keeps ending up in the wrong… er… place at the wrong time. So, you really can’t blame the girls for trying when they’ve got a proven working strategy in PETER GRILL AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S TIME – SUPER EXTRA!
Management of a Novice Alchemist
Release Date: 28 November 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English and Japanese Audio
Price: $69.98 USD
Runtime: 300 Minutes
Orphaned Sarasa Feed just graduated from the Royal Alchemist Academy and is now a full-fledged alchemist! She longs for a life of luxury, but there’s only one place Sarasa can afford to set up shop – and her dilapidated new digs are way out in the sticks! Stuck in the middle of nowhere with a business to run and supplies to gather from a very dangerous natural world, Sarasa has her work cut out for her as she transmutes this bad location into a golden opportunity in MANAGEMENT OF A NOVICE ALCHEMIST!
Tsurune ~ The Linking Shot
Release Date: 28 November 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: Japanese audio with English Subtitles
Price: $59.98 USD
Runtime: 300 Minutes
Minato’s return to archery may have helped Kazemai High’s Kyudo Club win a prefectural tournament, but it’s a poor bowman who expects an arrow to fly the same flight every time. With the entry of a radical new team, one of whose members is Minato’s former upperclassman, the old rivalry between Kazemai and Kirisaki becomes a triangle with the upstart team from Tsujimine as serious contenders. And even as the men’s team struggles to adjust to the new paradigm, competition doubles again as the Kazemai women’s team of Rika, Yuna, and Noa prepares to enter their first tourney as well! Prepare to be aquiver as each new arrow makes its mark in TSURUNE – THE LINKING SHOT!
