Siren Visual licenses Black Rock Shooter

[WTK]

via Siren Visual Facebook page

ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!
Busy as always here at Siren HQ, but not busy enough to neglect some good news: BLACK ROCK SHOOTER coming to Region 4 via Siren Visual in September!

And yes, that's an opening tune by Hatsune Miku. Coming your way in September - pre-orders will be available soon and we're going to have some knock-out stuff heading out to a couple of lucky folk, too!

[Maverick87]

Has anyone licensed this for home media in America yet? I cant recall.

[WTK]

Originally Posted by Maverick87

Has anyone licensed this for home media in America yet? I cant recall.

Nope. FUNimation was streaming the series for a while, but they are no longer doing that.

[WTK]

Pre-order listing is now up @ Siren Visual.

Product Specifications

Release Date: 20th September 2012
Format: DVD
Genre: ANIME
Running Time (mins): 300
Rating: TBC
Year of Production: 2012
Discs: 2
Audio Languages: Japanese
Audio Formats: 2.0 Subtitle
Languages: English
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Regions: 4

[WTK]

via Siren Visual Facebook page

Any news if it will be released blue ray and with English subtitles? We're working on it, but nothing set in stone as yet. Watch this space.

sorry to bombard your announcement with more questions, but have you acquired the OVA as well? The rights to the OVA/pilot are owned by a separate company and it's unlikely that it will be included in this Region 4 release.

[WTK]

via Siren Visual Facebook page

- Any news on the DVD extras?

- 3D CG Animatics (the 'raw' 3D for some of the action sequences), a "Making of BRS" featurette, a bunch of TV spots and the obligatory clean OP.

[skittles]

Got it today. It is just the 8 episodes. So running time is around 200 which is corrected on the cover, although the website still says 300. In general a fairly bare-bones release.

Although as WTK mentions it does contain a "Making of" which is actually reasonably substantial, fully-subtitled 22-minute doco focusing on Studio Sanzigen and the production of the 3D-segments.

Finally hardly needs a correction, but there is only a Clean ED, no OP.

[Tratious]

Originally Posted by skittles

Got it today. It is just the 8 episodes. So running time is around 200 which is corrected on the cover, although the website still says 300. In general a fairly bare-bones release.

Although as WTK mentions it does contain a "Making of" which is actually reasonably substantial, fully-subtitled 22-minute doco focusing on Studio Sanzigen and the production of the 3D-segments.

Finally hardly needs a correction, but there is only a Clean ED, no OP.

quick question, do you have any pictures of the front cover/back cover?

[skittles]

Fairly standard design from SV, they really need to fix up the quality of their rear covers.

Slipcover Images
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/...p/1a784dee.jpg
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/...p/96be10d1.jpg

If you want you can throw the slipcover away, especially as they didn't even bother to align the text for the ratings info, which looks horrible. The case insert is slightly better.

Insert Images
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/...p/aad07002.jpg
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/...p/b7449bbe.jpg

Although they did manage to achieve the feat of making the insert rear look worse than that of the slipcover. I do worry about their quality control sometimes.

[Tratious]

Doesn't look too bad, is the picture quality good atleast?