While the very newest of anime is being offered via their video-on-demand service AnimeLab, those who still love owning a physical copy of a series with extra content, dual-audio, offline watching and a sense of disc ownership still have the chance to enjoy monthly physical releases from Madman Entertainment. The Australian film and anime publisher have recently opened up pre-orders for their March 2020 release slate, which encompasses collections of iconic anime of past years, series receiving home video releases for the first time and episodic collections part of a wider season.
Keep scrolling down for a full list of Madman Entertainment’s March 2020 anime release slate, and place your orders either HERE or through your local anime retailer. Everything listed below will be available on 4 March 2020, pending any delays.
Accel World: Infinite Burst
Type: Film
Format: Blu-ray Only
Price: $34.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 82 Minutes
A mysterious black cloud kicks Haruyuki and his friends out of the online fighting game Brain Burst. Unable to reenter, they discover that this isn’t just an isolated incident – the cloud is spreading and preventing other Burst Linkers from accelerating. Haruyuki and the others soon learn that to protect the bond that connects them, they must confront a powerful ancient being that has been sealed away since the dawn of the Accelerated World!
Afro Samurai
Type: Complete Collection
Format: DVD / Blu-ray
Price: $19.95 / $24.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 221 Minutes
In a strange world of swords, guns & kimonos, cell phones & cybernetics, a black samurai, Afro Samurai, seeks revenge from a man named Justice, who killed his father & is the #1 fighter in the world. After Afro earns the rank of #2 & the right to challenge Justice, he faces bounty hunters, bar thugs & mad monks who covet the #2 title. With sidekick Ninja Ninja in tow, backed by killer hiphop, Afro cuts a bloody path of revenge!
Astro Boy (1980)
Type: 40th Anniversary Edition
Format: DVD
Price: $59.95
Audio: English
Runtime: 1,275 Minutes
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After being abandoned by his creator, a young boy robot is rescued by an ‘Android Advocate’, Dr Elefun, who adopts him as his own and guides him in the use of his special powers to aid and protect mankind.
Endowed with super strength, rocket-powered flight, a self-less heart and a kind demeanor, Astro Boy fights a never-ending crusade against the forces of evil.
Berserk (2016)
Type: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray
Price: $79.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 600 Minutes
Peer into the dark once more – the Black Swordsman roars again! Branded for death and hunted by demons forevermore, Guts embarks on a journey to escape his fate and get his revenge on the man he once considered a friend. With his monstrous blade, Dragonslayer, he and a band of unlikely allies will face danger unlike any they’ve ever experienced before. The answers he seeks lie shrouded in the night.
Black Clover
Type: Season 2 Part 2
Format: Blu-ray
Price: $49.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 225 Minutes
The Queen of Witches makes Asta her puppet, but a new spell in Vanessa’s grimoire will put the strings of fate into her hands. Meanwhile, the Magic Knights let loose at the Star Festival! Can they keep it together and make it to the ceremony on time?
Clockwork Planet
Type: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray
Price: $49.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 300 Minutes
A thousand years after the world was rebuilt with clockwork, machine-obsessed Naoto Miura becomes the master of an automaton named RyuZU. When this beautiful piece of machinery crashed into his apartment, Naoto’s superhuman hearing allowed him to fix her broken cogs-but little did he know it would land him squarely in the middle of a horrific government conspiracy.
Dragon Ball Super
Type: Part 10 (Episodes 118-131)
Format: DVD / Blu-ray
Price: $49.95 / $54.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 300 Minutes
Universes bid their sad farewells as one by one they’re wiped from existence. With only the strongest warriors left in the ring, time is running out, and so is everyone’s energy. It’s down to the wire in the epic conclusion of Dragon Ball Super!
Endro!
Type: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray
Price: $64.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 300 Minutes
Yusha is destined to defeat the Demon King, so she attends an adventurer school with her friends Seira, Fai, and Mei. Follow this adorable band of goofballs as they lazily learn what it takes to become heroes – while barely making any progress at all.
Kill La Kill!
Type: Complete Series
Format: DVD / Blu-ray
Price: $69.95 / $79.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Honnouji Academy – where the school is ruled by students clad in special outfits called Goku Uniforms. Deriding the student body as “pigs in human clothing,” Student Council President Satsuki Kiryuin, along with her loyal underlings, the Elite Four, has the academy under their absolute control.
One day, a vagrant schoolgirl named Ryuko Matoi appears and tries to get Satsuki, who recognizes her Scissor Blade, to talk. Was their encounter a mere coincidence or fate? The clash between the two will soon consume the whole academy!
Lucky Star
Type: Complete Series + OVA
Format: Blu-ray
Price: $49.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 600 Minutes
What’s the best way to eat dessert? Do twins really have a psychic connection? What kind of guys are into moe girls? These are the kinds of questions that float through the inquisitive mind of anime super-fan Konata Izumi. When she’s not lost in her favourite manga or logging hours in one of her online games, she’s debating the mysteries of the universe with the best friends a girl could ask for.
And while they might not share Konata’s refined eye for anime tropes and trivia, she doesn’t hold it against them. After all, Miyuki Takara is a precious moe dream girl, and twin sisters Tsukasa and Kagami are always there when she needs a helping hand or a notebook to copy homework from (even if Kagami insists on being totally tsundere about it). At the end of the day, Konata could look far and wide, but she’d never find a better group of girls to get her through the horrors of high school!
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka
Type: Complete Series
Format: Blu-ray
Price: $69.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 300 Minutes
Beings from another reality invaded the Earth with an army of monstrosities. They were barely defeated by a squad of elite magical girl soldiers, the Magical Five, after an entire year of bloodshed. Now, three years later, Asuka wants nothing more than to escape the horrors of her past. But she and her karambit are thrust back into the thick of it when her friends and home come under attack.
Naruto Shippuden
Type: Chakra Collection 1 (Episodes 1-71)
Format: DVD
Price: $79.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 1,775 Minutes
After two and a half years of training on the road with Jiraiya of the Sannin, Naruto is back in the Village Hidden in the Leaves and he’s ready to show off his new skills. He and Sakura team up to take on their old master Kakashi, who’s pretty impressed with their progress. They’ll have plenty of opportunity to put it into action when news arrives from the Sand Village that Gaara, Naruto’s former rival and now Kazekage of the Sand, has been kidnapped! And the culprits are the very same group who are after Naruto – the Akatsuki!
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Season 5)
Type: Part 2 (Episodes 184-200)
Format: DVD / Blu-ray
Price: $59.95 for either Format
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 425 Minutes
Although the popularity of the idol group Three Lights is off the charts, Usagi hasn’t realized that Seiya, Yaten and Taiki are the Sailor Starlights. But with the number of Phage growing in the city, the purpose of star seeds is the biggest mystery that needs to be solved. Could the mysterious Chibi-Chibi hold the answer? The tide is turning, but not in Usagi’s favor. Her allies are being overpowered, and altered timelines are confusing the fate she knows to be true: Mamoru is her true love, Neo Crystal Tokyo is her future kingdom and her fellow Guardians will be her eternal protectors… right? The ultimate battle with the chaotic Sailor Galaxia lies ahead, and the fate of all existence lies in the balance.
Yu Yu Hakusho
Type: Season 3 Collection (Episodes 57-84)
Format: Blu-ray
Price: $59.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 700 Minutes
The Dark Tournament has come down to a final grudge match, and Yusuke unleashes his full wrath in a fight to the end. Worn out but victorious, he finds there’s no time for rest or recovery, when a new enemy threatens the boundary between worlds. A tunnel is being carved and once it’s completed, it will lay waste to the World of the Living. Up against former Spirit Realm Detective Shinobu Sensui, and the scourge of the Demon World, Yusuke must awaken a new, demonic power.
Zombie Land Saga
Type: Season 1 Collection
Format: Blu-ray / DVD + Blu-ray
Price: $64.95 / $99.95
Audio: English and Japanese
Runtime: 300 Minutes
Sakura Minamoto is dead. The good kind of dead where she can still head-bang to heavy metal. She and six other long-lost celebs were sprung from the grave to form an idol group that will put their tiny town on the map! But when the crowd comes begging for more, can Sakura and her zom squad put on a show that will knock ’em dead?
