Section23 Films February '13 Slate

[WTK]

via TRSI...

ADV Films

• New Fist of the North Star: Complete Collection - 175 minutes - $14.98 - 2/12/13

Sentai Filmworks

• Battle Girls - Time Paradox: Complete Collection (DVD) - 325 minutes - $59.98 - 2/26/13
• Battle Girls - Time Paradox: Complete Collection (Blu-ray) - 325 minutes - $69.98 - 2/26/13
• Kamisama Dolls: Complete Collection (DVD) - 325 minutes - $59.98 - 2/19/13
• Kamisama Dolls: Complete Collection (Blu-ray) - 325 minutes - $69.98 - 2/19/13
• Tegami Bachi - Letter Bee: Season 1, Collection 2 - 300 minutes - $49.98 - 2/19/13
• Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!: Complete Collection - 325 minutes - $49.98 - 2/5/13
• The Qwaser of Stigmata: Season 1, Collection 2 - 300 minutes - $49.98 - 2/26/13
• Waiting in the Summer: Complete Collection - 300 minutes - $49.98 - 2/12/13

via PR...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



SECTION23 FILMS ANNOUNCES FEBRUARY SLATE

KAMISAMA DOLLS Available on February 19th

HOUSTON, November 14, 2012 – Home video distributor Section23 Films today announced its February slate of releases; including the supernatural thriller KAMISAMA DOLLS, which will be available on both DVD and Blue-Ray.


Product details follow, in order of release

Coming February 2013


Title: LISTEN TO ME, GIRLS. I AM YOUR FATHER! COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 2/5/2013
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98

SYNOPSIS: Whoever said little girls grow up in the most delightful ways wasn't Yuta Segawa! But since his sister Yuri raised Yuta by herself after their own parents' deaths, what kind of brother would Yuta be if he didn't take in her THREE children when Yuri and her husband disappear? Of course, the fact that Yuta's a nineteen year old college student, living in a tiny apartment, with three GIRLS, two of whom aren't related by blood, is bound to cause some issues. Especially when the eldest girl, Sora, is harboring a secret crush on him and would be quite happy if Yuta's social life revolved around the 'family,' while middle sister Miu is starting to make noises about 'older men' as well. Did we mention that it's a really, REALLY small apartment? Add Raika, the girl Yuta actually likes, as a smoldering fuse and the question isn't IF Yuta's home sweet home is a powderkeg, but rather one of when it's going to explode and how often! Some family ties bind, others may need restraining orders in LISTEN TO ME, GIRLS. I AM YOUR FATHER!


Title: NEW FIST OF THE NORTH STAR COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: ADV Films
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 175 min.
Street Date: 2/12/2013
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $14.98

SYNOPSIS: A twist on the classic favorite that begins in the aftermath of the great apocalypse. Across a barren Earth, chaos is the rule and order, the exception with bandits and enterprising overlords terrorizing the survivors of the holocaust. Will a hero rise from the ashes and cut a swath of justice across the Earth’s ruined landscape?!


Title: WAITING IN THE SUMMER COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 2/12/2013
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98

SYNOPSIS: When a group of friends decide to make a movie over a long summer holiday, they end up learning a little about filmmaking and a lot more about each other and themselves. What begins as a simple way to avoid the summer doldrums quickly turns into something much more complex, intimate and downright revealing. As the summer heats up, so do the maturing relationships between the young cast members, taking some new, and sometimes unexpected, turns. Get ready for a whole new look at summer romance as hidden emotions get captured and secrets meant to be kept hidden inside young hearts instead spill off of the screen for your viewing pleasure in WAITING IN THE SUMMER!


Title KAMISAMA DOLLS COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 2/19/2013
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98

SYNOPSIS: When Kyohei Kuga moves to Tokyo to escape the strictures of life in a small town, he thinks he's left his old life behind. But when he discovers a bloody corpse, he also discovers that the past isn't so easily left behind. Especially when the past is as unusual as Kyohei's. You see, back in his home town, Kyohei was a "seki" - an individual able to control "kakashi," ancient wooden "gods" capable of incredible feats, with his mind. And now it seems that there's a kakashi loose in Tokyo, and it just may be up to Kyohei to stop it AND its seki.


Title: KAMISAMA DOLLS COMPLETE COLLECTION BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 2/19/2013
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $69.98

SYNOPSIS: When Kyohei Kuga moves to Tokyo to escape the strictures of life in a small town, he thinks he's left his old life behind. But when he discovers a bloody corpse, he also discovers that the past isn't so easily left behind. Especially when the past is as unusual as Kyohei's. You see, back in his home town, Kyohei was a "seki" - an individual able to control "kakashi," ancient wooden "gods" capable of incredible feats, with his mind. And now it seems that there's a kakashi loose in Tokyo, and it just may be up to Kyohei to stop it AND its seki.


Title: LETTER BEE COLLECTION 2
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 2/19/2013
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98

SYNOPSIS: Now that he has Niche and her pet Steak to watch his back against attacks by the giant insects known as Gaichuu, Lag Seeing's job as a Letter Bee should be getting easier. But something's clearly not right in the land of perpetual twilight, and instead every new delivery they undertake seems to involve new complications and introduce even greater dangers to Lag's already lethal profession. Meanwhile, Lag's search for his mentor Gauche seems to be going in circles, but when a sinister researcher known as the Corpse Doctor kidnaps Steak with the intent of dissecting him, a new series of revelations sends Lag and Niche in an entirely new direction. Saving Steak from the butcher's knife, stamping the ambitions of a rival organization of letter carriers and escalating waves of Gaichuu attacks are only the beginning of the action as everything goes postal in LETTER BEE - COLLECTION 2!


Title: BATTLE GIRLS: TIME PARADOX COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 2/26/2013
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98

SYNOPSIS: Yoshino Hide (nickname Hideyoshi) is your average, everyday teenager - interested only in fashion, snacks and her afterschool free time. And destined to fail her next history test without some sort of miraculous intervention. So, she stops by the local shrine to offer up a prayer or two to any deity that might be listening. But her prayers are interrupted by a mysterious blue light that engulfs her and leaves Hideyoshi stranded in a strange new world that appears to be feudal Japan. Only, all the inhabitants of this world, including feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga, are women! Now Hideyoshi finds herself on a quest to gather the pieces of the Crimson Armor and help Nobunaga conquer the land!


Title: BATTLE GIRLS: TIME PARADOX COMPLETE COLLECTION BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 2/26/2013
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $69.98

SYNOPSIS: Yoshino Hide (nickname Hideyoshi) is your average, everyday teenager - interested only in fashion, snacks and her afterschool free time. And destined to fail her next history test without some sort of miraculous intervention. So, she stops by the local shrine to offer up a prayer or two to any deity that might be listening. But her prayers are interrupted by a mysterious blue light that engulfs her and leaves Hideyoshi stranded in a strange new world that appears to be feudal Japan. Only, all the inhabitants of this world, including feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga, are women! Now Hideyoshi finds herself on a quest to gather the pieces of the Crimson Armor and help Nobunaga conquer the land!


Title: QWASER OF STIGMATA COLLECTION 2
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 2/26/2013
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98

SYNOPSIS: The relationship between a Qwaser and his Maria, the woman who provides him with the sustaining soma that he needs to fuel his elemental powers, is already a strange and twisted one, but as the battle for the High Circuit escalates to a insane crescendo, a completely unexpected question arises: Can exposure to beings with superpowers actually be contagious? The answer could prove deadly as Miyuri goes through a most unexpected transformation! Meanwhile, Mafuyu finds herself even more conflicted over her relationship with Sasha as he slowly recovers from his strange amnesia, while Elizabeth fears having to choose between Shin'ichiro and her friends. As new waves of adepts attack, the milk of human kindness alone won't be enough to nip tragedy in the bud, and the survival of each pairing may ultimately depend upon the courage within each maiden's breast! Disaster looms as the seal is breeched and the lightning of the gods escapes the bottle at last in QWASER OF STIGMATA- COLLECTION 2!

[WTK]

Now up @ TRSI...

ADV Films

• New Fist of the North Star: Complete Collection - 175 minutes - $14.98 - 2/12/13

Sentai Filmworks

• Battle Girls - Time Paradox: Complete Collection (DVD) - 325 minutes - $59.98 - 2/26/13
• Battle Girls - Time Paradox: Complete Collection (Blu-ray) - 325 minutes - $69.98 - 2/26/13
• Kamisama Dolls: Complete Collection (DVD) - 325 minutes - $59.98 - 2/19/13
• Kamisama Dolls: Complete Collection (Blu-ray) - 325 minutes - $69.98 - 2/19/13
• Tegami Bachi - Letter Bee: Season 1, Collection 2 - 300 minutes - $49.98 - 2/19/13
• Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!: Complete Collection - 325 minutes - $49.98 - 2/5/13
• The Qwaser of Stigmata: Season 1, Collection 2 - 300 minutes - $49.98 - 2/26/13
• Waiting in the Summer: Complete Collection - 300 minutes - $49.98 - 2/12/13

[bored@lazy]

Initial inspection of that list is not positive... Although Kamisama dolls seems to have an interesting premise but pretty much all of the reviews for it are on the negative side of things... Any tips regarding that one?

Note: I'd probably get Waiting in the Summer if it was on BD...

[FUNiOP]

I'm surprised every time I see an ADV title re-released under the ADV name. Nothing for me except Kamisama Dolls on Blu-ray. I wish they would've decided to do the dub and Blu-ray thing for Waiting in the Summer instead of Battle Girls, because then I also would've gotten that.

[u_nick]

Still super sad that Waiting in the Summer isnt BD. I love the show much I WILL get the DVD, and hope it's just a time/license thing, and in 6-8 months we'll get a BD release. And then I'll re-buy then.

Kamisama Dolls I liked in the first couple episodes, but then it just kinda went nowhere. It had a few moments, but overall it just felt forgettable. I didnt HATE it, but certainly didnt like it either. That most likely will be a pass, maybe picking it up on super clearance in a year or two.

'listen to me, girls' is another one that had potential to be wacky comedy fun, but ended up being awkward and uncomfortable, and then also never went anywhere. On BD it might have been like Kamisama Dolls, just for the decent art, but even then its a maybe. Easy pass on DVD.

Qwaser of Stigmata I may blind buy. BD would have more than helped. I watched the first episode or two, and liked it enough, but dropped it from my schedule at the time because there was too much to watch. And the reviews and episode descriptions I saw made me think it might be something I like. SO definitely a potential blind buy.

[Ingraman]

Originally Posted by WTK

Sentai Filmworks

• Battle Girls - Time Paradox: Complete Collection (Blu-ray) - 325 minutes - $69.98 - 2/26/13
• Kamisama Dolls: Complete Collection (Blu-ray) - 325 minutes - $69.98 - 2/19/13

They may be on BD, but since I haven't seen them (or anything about them), I'm not even considering purchasing them. Were they on CR and I just didn't choose to try them? My selections of which series to watch are fairly random or uninformed, since I don't often look at the seasonal charts to decide what to watch. ^^

• Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!: Complete Collection - 325 minutes - $49.98 - 2/5/13
• Waiting in the Summer: Complete Collection - 300 minutes - $49.98 - 2/12/13

I have seen these two. I didn't like them enough to import the Japanese releases, and I'm not sure if I'd buy them even if ADV had put them on Blu-ray. DVD only? Definitely 'no' for those titles.

[Damius]

Waiting in the Summer: Complete Collection - 300 minutes - $49.98 - 2/12/13

This is way too good for being DVD only... It's so sad that US fans won't be able to watch this at its full potential... Sentai, you did a mistake with this one.

[ToAruOni]

It is a crying shame that Sentai couldn't get Ano Natsu on BD. I really enjoyed the series, would like to own it, but I'll have to pass. I can't seem to bring myself to support DVD releases of modern series (pre-digital animation transition are fine for classics).

[Buckeye]

Looks like an empty month for me. At least for the time being. I would have gotten Waiting in the Summer if it had a BD release, but that will not be happening.