While over here in Australia it has only been possible to pick up a Standard Edition copy of Arakawa Under the Bridge x Bridge, in North America anime fans have only had the option of a pricier Premium Edition that came with a hardcover artbox and artbook.
This has all changed today with the anime publisher Nippon Ichi Software America releasing their Standard Edition of the series with comes with the complete 13-episode season across two DVD / Blu-ray discs, a brief episode guide leaflet and all on-disc content from the original release.
Check out my review of the Premium Edition HERE.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder by the banks of the mighty Arakawa, they go ahead and get weirder by a whole lot. Rec, Nino, and the rest of the riverside residents return, and with the addition of another batch of nutty citizens the insanity gets turned up to eleven…thousand. Now Rec has to deal with a sci-fi loving comic nerd who’s convinced he’s a captain in the Earth Defense Force, and the less said about the Amazon woman living upstream with her demonic “female” Amazon followers, the better. On top of that, Rec struggles with the pressing issues of romantic expression, media obsession, weight loss, weight gain, beach parties, haunted houses, interplanetary travel, and the ever-present threat of global thermonuclear war!
