As New Year’s fireworks began booming across Australia, the website of Australian anime publisher Madman Entertainment received its usual automatic update. This update has seen the company cast their gaze forward two months, by opening pre-orders for the anime titles they will have on sale during the month of March 2017.
While March 2017 will see the company release both new series and new volumes in their regular mainstream franchises, Madman will also be offering complete collection sets for several of their earlier releases, including: Cardcaptor Sakura, Haganai and Baka and Test. To be available from March 8th 2017, you can read more about each item below.
Do note that we are still two months out from release, and while unusual, there is the possibility of release date changes between now and March. All these items can be pre-ordered via the official Madman Entertainment online store, or through your local anime retailer where possible.
Aquarion Logos
Release Type: Complete Series
First Air Year: 2015
Format: DVD
Audio: English and Japanese
Price: $59.95
Runtime: 650 Minutes
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Aquarion returns with a new series, new characters and a brand new adventure! Inspired by the classic mecha series of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Aquarion Logos is ready to serve up more high-flying robotic battles animated by Satelight, the same team that brought you Log Horizon, Fairy Tail and the first two installments in the Aquarion franchise.
Baka and Test
Release Type: Complete Collection
First Air Year: 2010
Format: DVD/Blu-ray
Audio: English and Japanese
Price: $59.95
Runtime: 742 Minutes
When a fight breaks out at Fumizuki Academy, nobody throws a single punch. Instead, the students utilize the school’s technology to summon Avatars, pint-sized stand-ins with battle powers based on academic ability. That “academic ability” part is bad news for Yoshii: he’s an idiot, stuck in lowly Class F with the slackers. If these misfits want to escape their dump of a classroom and earn some respect, they’ll have to fight their way up the ranks and take on Class A, the Academy’s brightest students. It’s going to be tough, that’s for sure, but once the underachievers of Class F get motivated, they don’t give up – and Yoshii can’t even spell surrender!
Bikini Warriors
Release Type: Complete Series
First Air Year: 2015
Format: DVD
Audio: English and Japanese
Price: $59.95
Runtime: 48 Minutes
Prepare yourself for an adventure of epic proportions. With warriors so skilled at battling questionable slimes and taming tumescent tentacles, there’s no need for all that bulky armor. Brought to you by some of the masters of the female form, Bikini Warriors features character designs by Rei Hiroe (Black Lagoon), Tony Taka, Odanon (Queen’s Blade), and Hisasi.
All your favorite RPG classes beginning with the athletic Fighter, elegant Paladin, and enchanting Mage–are busting the min/max barriers for maximum blood loss! Are you equipped? Unsheathe your sword and prepare for battle!
Cardcaptor Sakura
Release Type: Complete Collection
First Air Year: 1999
Format: DVD
Audio: Japanese
Price: $79.95
Runtime: 1,750 Minutes
Curiosity is part of any 10-year old’s life, but Sakura just broke the seal on a magical book and released all of the mischievous spirits imprisoned on the cards inside! Kero, the “Guardian of the Clow Cards” is horrified to find all of the cards gone and tells Sakura she must become the “Cardcaptor” and retrieve the spirits before they work their mischief in the world.
Haganai
Release Type: Complete Collection
First Air Year: 2011
Format: DVD/Blu-ray
Audio: English/Japanese
Price: $79.95
Runtime: 625 Minutes
Yozora’s an abrasive loudmouth whose only friend at school is imaginary. She knows she’s difficult – which makes her better off than Kodoka, a new transfer student who picked up an undeserved bad reputation the second he stepped on campus. Inspired by their shared status as social catastrophes, the two loners unite and start the Neighbors Club, an organization dedicated to finding other misfits and making friends.
My Love Story!!
Release Type: Complete Series
First Air Year: 2015
Format: DVD
Audio: English/Japanese
Price: $59.95
Runtime: 600 Minutes
Takeo Goda is a giant guy with a giant heart. Too bad the girls don’t want him! (They always go for his good-looking best friend, Sunakawa.) Used to being on the sidelines, Takeo simply stands tall and accepts his fate. But one day when he saves a girl named Yamato from a harasser on the train, his (love!) life suddenly takes an incredible turn! Takeo can hardly believe it when he crosses paths with Yamato again, and he finds himself falling in love with her? But with handsome Sunakawa around, does Takeo even stand a chance?
Naruto Shippuden
Release Type: Collection 29 (Episodes 362-374)
Format: DVD
Audio: English/Japanese
Price: $49.95
Runtime: 325 Minutes
With Kakashi unable to get through to Obito, Naruto leaps to his Sensei’s defense. The release of Ten Tails forces the Allied Shinobi Forces into an assault on Obito and Madara, but the powerful Tailed Beast proves to be a formidable enemy. The devastation is severe, but Hinata’s words spur Naruto to continue fighting with renewed energy, while help arrives from unexpected quarters – including an old adversary! Will Naruto and the Allied Shinobi’s efforts be enough to fend off destruction?
Ninja Slayer
Release Type: Complete Series
First Air Year: 2015
Format: DVD
Audio: English/Japanese
Price: $59.95
Runtime: 358 Minutes
Kenji Fujikido is a salaryman whose wife and child were killed in a ninja turf war. In a brush with his own death, Fujikido is possessed by an enigmatic ninja soul known as Naraku Ninja. Fujikido cheats death and becomes “Ninja Slayer” – a Grim Reaper destined to kill evil ninja, committed to a personal war of vengeance. Set in the dystopian underworld of Neo-Saitama, Ninja Slayer takes on Soukai Syndicate ninja in mortal combat.
One Piece (Uncut)
Release Type: Collection 42 (Episodes 505-516)
Format: DVD
Audio: English/Japanese
Price: $49.95
Runtime: 300 Minutes
Ringing in the New Age of pirates! The tragedy at Marineford sends shockwaves around the world, and the Straw Hats struggle desperately to meet again in Luffy’s most heart-wrenching time of grief. Incapable of protecting his friends, Luffy questions his ability to become the King of the Pirates. His crew members, scattered to the farthest reaches of the globe, are more determined than ever to keep their promise and return to Sabaody Archipelago in three days. But when ”Dark King” Rayleigh offers Luffy a stern suggestion, Luffy must choose between reuniting with his friends or joining Rayleigh in training. Luffy’s decision drives him back to Marineford, where he pays his respects to the fallen and sends a secret message to his friends. The news stirs enemies from all walks of life. Monkey D. Luffy is ringing in the New Age!
Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace
Release Type: Complete Series
First Air Year: 2015
Format: DVD/Blu-ray
Price: $59.95/$69.95
Runtime: 275 Minutes
Inspired by the works of Edogawa Rampo, Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace tells a macabre detective story rife with symbolism and visual tricks that exist somewhere in the delicate balance between gruesome and gorgeous.
Middle school life was dull for the intelligent and charismatic Kobayashi, until the day he was framed for his homeroom teacher’s murder. After the event drew the media’s attention, an infamous high school detective inserted himself into the investigation. Brooding and brilliant, Akechi quickly cleared Kobayashi’s name and took the inquisitive young student on as his assistant. But for every case they closed, two more seemed to open in its place.
The streets were alive with whispers of one deadly name, Twenty Faces–a legendary murderer who killed criminals in the name of justice. With cryptic clues leading the way, Kobayashi and Akechi began following the trail of bodies left by the prolific killer. But will they be able to stop him before countless innocent people, inspired by his deranged cause, start following his lead?
Show by Rock!!
Release Type: Season 1
First Air Year: 2015
Format: DVD
Audio: English/Japanese
Price: $59.95
Runtime: 300 Minutes
Set in the glamorous metropolis Tokyo Midi City, where music-and the dream of musical superstardom-is everything. Here, “battle of the bands” is more than just a teen rivalry: Dozens of ensembles compete for the honor of playing atop the city’s highest tower. When a Gothic Lolita-clad catgirl cutie named Cyan stumbles into the music world, she too is swept up by the dream of fame. After joining forces with three other colorful characters-bunnygirl honor student Chuchu, shy doggirl Retoree, and adorable sheepgirl Moa-the quartet becomes Plasmagica, the freshest band on the scene. Armed with special instruments, the girls face off with other bands striving for stardom, like the cool and passionate Visual Kei band Shingan Crimsonz, or the handsome pop idols Trichronika. Will the band find celebrity? Or are they doomed to be one-hit-wonders…
The World God Only Knows
Release Type: Ultimate Collection
First Air Year: 2010
Format: DVD
Audio: English/Japanese
Price: $49.95
Runtime: 1000 Minutes
Keima is a dating sim champion. Cute girls are rendered powerless by his irresistible game playing techniques. Too bad things aren’t that way in the real world… that is, until his tempting game playing causes a real live – and very bubbly – cute demon hunter named Elsie to materialize! Now Elsie wants Keima to help her free hot girls from sneaky demons who secretly possess them.
Triage X
Release Type: Complete Series
First Air Year: 2015
Format: DVD
Audio: Japanese
Price: $59.95
Runtime: 500 Minutes
Mochizuki General Hospital boasts some of the most well-trained (and well-endowed) nurses in town. But though these ladies spend much of their day battling sickness, their after-hours are spent fighting a very different sort of disease… Under the leadership of the hospital chairman, a handful of staff members and local teenagers form a group of mercenary assassins, targeting the “cancers” of society and excising those individuals before their wickedness spreads.
Yowamushi Pedal the Movie
Release Type: Complete Series
First Air Year: 2015
Format: DVD
Audio: Japanese
Price: $29.95
Runtime: 90 Minutes
After the Inter High finishes, Sakamichi and the other Sohoku team members receive an invitation to compete in the “Kumamoto Hi Province Mountain Range Race.” The top-tier teams from around the country participate in this race, including Sohoku’s rivals Hakone Academy (who yearns to take down Sohoku), Kyoto Fushimi, and Hiroshima Kureminami – as well as Kumamoto Daiichi High School’s team led by Shin Yoshimoto, the “climber of fire.”
On the stage of Kumamoto Prefecture’s Mount Aso, the curtain rises for the “final race” of the Sohoku team led by Kinjo!
