Hey Nice Package! - DBZ Kai Part 4 & Black Butler S1 Part 2

The folks at Funi finally got around to putting together a preview of the new DBZ Kai Vol #4 and the 2nd Half of Black Butler:

NIS America Offer Replacements for Fox Deity #2 Box Art

NIS America announced a replacement program today for the less than perfect box art that came on the 2nd Our Home's Fox Deity (Wagaya no Oinarisama) Premium DVD box (NIS-011134). They blamed a 'manufacturing error' for the less than pristine box art image quality on the premium collectors box. The box contents and DVD's themselves (nothing wrong with the actual DVD's) are not effected by this,

Media Blasters Update - Dragon Destiny Back in Stock!

I just wanted to do a quick post to let you all know that we've gotten several big restock shipments from Media Blasters over the last couple of days. One notable title that is now back in stock after being backordered for a few weeks is the Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny Complete Collection. We filled a couple hundred backorders for various Media Blasters titles today, including DD, and we have

Summer Wars 'O-Card' Available Directly from Funimation

As many of you know, FUNimation shipped the latest batch of Summer Wars DVD's without the 'O-Card' (which is the slip cover). Since we ran out of the first press versions about a week ago we have started shipping these non cover copies to customers over the last few days.These non-first pressing versions do not include the special art card pack in, but they were supposed to  still come with the '

Bandai Offers Haruhi Replacement Program

Per Mania's forum site today:"Bandai Entertainment is now offering up a replacement program to consumers who had problems with the audio tracks on either the Haruhi Season 2 release or the Haruhi Chan single disc release.A small batch of discs featured mono sound on the Japanese audio track for the releases of Haruhi Season 2 (4 discs) and Haruhi Chan Vol. 1 (1 disc). Customers who purchased

IDA Posts English Cat Shit One Trailer

IDA has finally posted the long promised English trailer for the Cat Shit One. The director of the war anime, Kazuya Sasahara, also announced on Saturday that the previously announced free English stream of the anime has been rescheduled for February 5.In addition he said the planned DVD and Blu-ray Disc release has also been rescheduled for the same date on Amazon, but as of today Amazon still

Update on the Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny Complete Collection

Yesterday we made a little mistake by prematurely announcing the new Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny Complete Collection DVD Boxed Set (Eps #1-12) had arrived and was now in stock. This was not quite correct.You see, it did in fact arrive, but it is 'not' in stock.I've been told by our rep at Allegro that the first shipment of the Dragon Destiny box was allocated to retailers because it was under

Update on the Chrome Shelled Regios Limited Box

As many of you already know, we received the Chrome Shelled Regios Part 2 DVD Collection this week ahead of the Part 1 box. This is because the part 1 box is one of Funi's new Limited Editions, and ended up getting delayed slightly in production.Word has it today that they should have the part 1 limited box to us around the middle of next week, so what we are going to do is ship all mixed orders

RACS Clannad After Story Upgrade Program

With the new dubbed release of Clannad After Story coming on April 19th, RACS will be participating in Section 23's Clannad After Story upgrade program.If you have already purchased one or both of the prior subtitled only Clannad After Story releases, you can trade them up for the new Dubbed version. Here's how:Just send in both of your old Clannad After Story releases:SFCL/300 Clannad After

Hey Nice Package! - Sacred Blacksmith Limited Box

The folks at Funi finally got around to putting together a preview of the new Sacred Blacksmith Limited Edition boxed set:We still have the sets in stock - so get your copy before they are gone!

Funimation's New Release Format

Funimation has decided to return to offering collector editions for anime titles starting in January, which will include a rigid box and a premium item. These premium editions will be available for the FIRST PRESSING ONLY and cost US$5 more than the regular editions that will be a plain cardstock box, slim case DVDs, and no premium item.The first batch of premium first pressings include:Black

NIS Offers Replacement Program for Faulty Toradora and Persona DVD's

While we haven't received a single customer complaint or issue regarding the recently released Toradora and Persona premium DVD sets, apparently there have been a small number of people of have reported certain quality issues with the DVD's contained in the sets.In response to this, NIS has posted the following statement on their website:Dear NIS America fans and customers,Thank you very much for

NIS Offers Replacement Program for Faulty Toradora and Persona DVD's

While we haven't received a single customer complaint or issue regarding the recently released Toradora and Persona premium DVD sets, apparently there have been a small number of people of have reported certain quality issues with the DVD's contained in the sets.In response to this, NIS has posted the following statement on their website:Dear NIS America fans and customers,Thank you very much for