Casting their gaze towards the second half of this year, North American anime publisher Sentai alongside their new distributor Distribution Solutions have confirmed their line-up of home video anime releases for July 2023. Scroll down to see if your favourite series is being brought to Blu-ray for the first time or, alternatively, is getting re-released.
The Executioner and Her Way of Life
Release Date: 4 July 2023
Format: Blu-ray (With Limited Edition Premium Box Set planned for a future release)
Language: English and Japanese with English subtitles
Price: $69.98
When interdimensional travelers from an otherworldly land known as “Japan” appear, death and destruction always follow. It’s up to Executioners like Menou to exterminate the Lost Ones before they wreak havoc. When Menou encounters a Lost One named Akari, it’s bloody business as usual… until Menou discovers Akari can cheat death. Even so, Menou has a job to do, and she is committed to her executioner’s mission come hell or high water – provided her newly stirring feelings don’t get in the way.
Penguindrum ~ RE: Cycle of the Penguindrum
Release Date: 4 July 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English and Japanese with English subtitles
Price: $69.98
What would you do to save someone you love? All brothers Shoma and Kanba know is that, after collapsing in an aquarium and apparently dying, their terminally ill sister Himari was somehow revived by a Penguin hat that she had wished for. Now they’re on an impossible mission, because the price of keeping Himari alive is to find a mysterious object called the Penguindrum, and they’ll do anything to save their sister. Anything. As they travel separate paths in their search, they’ll have to unravel complex riddles, make alliances with strangers they know they shouldn’t trust, and question the very fabrics of time and destiny. In two spectacular feature films combining elements from the acclaimed TV series plus dazzling new scenes and characters, the Penguinture begins again in RE: CYCLE OF THE PENGUINDRUM, PTS. 1 & 2!
When Will Ayumu Make His Move?
Release Date: 11 July 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
Price: $59.98
Ayumu was a Kendo competitor in middle school, so everyone assumed that he’d join the Kendo club for his first year in high school. Instead, he becomes involved with an entirely different sort of activity with a Second-Year girl… an activity famous for becoming increasingly complex the longer it goes on! We’re talking about Shogi, of course, the board game that’s often referred to as Japanese chess. But the game itself soon becomes a problem, because while Ayumu finds himself increasingly attracted to Urushi, he’s also sworn not to tell her until he’s won a match against her… and Urushi’s REALLY good at Shogi! So now they’re stuck in a loop, caught up in ancient game that’s far more complicated than chess… and also playing a lot of Shogi as well… wondering WHEN WILL AYUMU MAKE HIS MOVE?
Medaka Box
Release Date: 18 July 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English and Japanese with English subtitles
Price: $79.98
SYNOPSIS: Medaka Kurokami seems impossibly perfect. Not only is she one of the best in her class in most academics and sports, she’s also beautiful, sweet, and caring, so no one is particularly surprised when one of her first acts as the newly elected Student Council President is to create a suggestion box for odd problems that need to be addressed. However, what no one expects is for the box’s submissions to start revealing evidence of a sinister conspiracy… one that directly targets the students of Hakoniwa Academy! As what seemed like a simple way to help others continues to expose new and shocking revelations, Medaka, her self-appointed protector Zenkichi, and their recruits find themselves left with no other option: it’s time to start laying down some serious smackdown in the ultimate Student Council-endorsed battle royale in MEDAKA BOX!
Tokyo Mew Mew New
Release Date: 18 July 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
Price: $59.98
Ichigo was hoping for a great first date. What she got was a literal disaster and an origin story! First, she’s hit with a ray that supplements her DNA with that of an Iriomote Cat (an endangered subspecies of leopard), and then they’re attacked by a giant rat monster! With her date down, Ichigo finds herself using her new feline abilities to defeat the monster. Holy catgirl, she’s a super heroine! But who gave her these powers and why? With her cat out of the bag, Ichigo must track down the mysterious Mew Project and help locate the other Mew Mew girls who’ve been given similar powers in order to fight off invading aliens! Geez, when is she going to have time to do her homework? Find out when the good girls go magically wild in TOKYO MEW MEW NEW!
High School of the Dead
Release Date: 25 July 2023
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English and Japanese with English subtitles
Price: $59.98
Being a student at a Japanese High School has always been stressful, but when the dead start to rise and eat the living, Takashi Komuro’s priorities at Fujimi High shift radically. Now the only thing that’s important is not failing a crash course in Zombie Apocalypse survival, keeping himself, his childhood crush Rei, and the other students moving, breathing and fighting long enough to escape from the slaughterhouse their school has become. And that’s just the beginning of the unliving nightmare, as even as former classmates and faculty rise again as cannibalistic ghouls, not all the survivors are willing to work together or share weapons and shelter… which means that Komuro’s group is now fighting a battle on multiple fronts and can never completely trust anyone, not even each other, in HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD!
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Release Date: 25 July 2023
Format: Blu-ray (With Limited Edition Premium Box Set planned for a future release)
Language: English and Japanese with English subtitles
Price: $69.98
Midori Asakusa is obsessed with animation, but while she spends hours doodling and coming up with amazing ideas, she knows that it’ll be difficult to produce animated films on her own. Fortunately, Sayaka Kanamori is more into planning and finances, and she’s been thinking of ways to turn Midori’s ideas into something practical and profitable. That’s what friends are for, right? Still, for all their hopes and wishes, their future as the next animation wunderkinds is looking rather sketchy… until they meet Tsubame Mizusaki, who daydreams about becoming an animator, even though her parents have forbidden her from joining their school’s anime club. Solution: form a new club focused on “motion pictures” and let the creativity flow! It won’t always be easy, but once everyone’s in “toon” together, who knows what might happen in KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF EIZOUKEN!
