Sentai Filmworks licenses Detroit Metal City: The Animated Series

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SENTAI FILMWORKS LICENSES
“DETROIT METAL CITY: THE ANIMATED SERIES”

HOUSTON, July 1, 2012 — Get ready for the ear-splittingest, skull-smashingest band to ever assault your senses in Sentai Filmworks latest acquisition: Kiminori Wakasugi’s Detroit Metal City: The Animated Series. Featuring direction by Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-Shi) and pulse-pounding music, these twelve episodes will leave your head reeling, your heart racing and your inner metal freak screaming for more!

Led by phallus-waiving terrorist-from-hell Johannes Krauser II (guitar/vocals,) and given pulsing, throbbing life by indestructible drummer Camus and bassist Alexander Jagi, Detroit Metal City is the hottest ticket on the concert circuit! There’s just one catch. That ”hottest ticket” is just a meal ticket, and beneath the makeup, these ultimate head-bangers are hired doppelgangers who don’t even LIKE what they do! Jaggi is actually Wada, who wants to play glam rock; Camus is Nishida, an anime fan with an appalling weakness for curry and NSFW videos; and Krauser is… oh the shame… street-singing Soichi Negishi, whose dreams of singing happy pop hits seem hopelessly doomed by the success of his rage-fueled alter ego! Worse, he can’t even tell anyone who Krauser is. Not even the girl he likes, who HATES DMC! Will rage against the corporate machine consume Negishi’s tortured soul? Is there life after death metal? What it’s like to put your head in a jet engine and turn up the volume? Find out as angst, amps and anarchy collide in Detroit Metal City!

Detroit Metal City: The Animated Series will be available through select digital outlets soon with a home video release on subtitled DVD to follow.

About Sentai Filmworks:
Sentai Filmworks is one of the fastest-growing anime companies in North America, producing hit series like High School of the Dead, Towanoquon, Samurai Girls, Guin Saga, Needless and Angel Beats as well as high profile theatrical films such as Grave of the Fireflies and Appleseed. Sentai Filmworks’ programs can be found on home video distributed by Ingram Entertainment, Baker & Taylor, Section23Films, The Right Stuf and other good and fine distributors. Digital product offerings may be found at iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Zune Marketplace, Anime Network, Playstation Network, Android Market and YouTube.
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[Damius]

Nothing will stop them! I hope the next one will be something I want (and on BD). Good for the fans.

[MelancholicMariya]

This is starting to get weird. Either all of these licenses are really cheap or something fishy is going on. I've never seen this many licenses by one company so quickly ever.

[Nico87]

Yeah, and it's just not now either, last few months have been crazy.

[Damius]

Originally Posted by MelancholicMariya

This is starting to get weird. Either all of these licenses are really cheap or something fishy is going on. I've never seen this many licenses by one company so quickly ever.

Yeah, I also wonder. I think it's since Winter 2012 season, since that point, they got so many.

[Hrld]

My gosh, this just SCREAMS for an English dub. So that other Texas company got underwear and hoisery with somethingsuch, this is one upsmanship. Even if it's subtilted only, I am sooooo buying this. Hopefully, down the road, DMC gets a rerelease.

In a strange twist, the polar opposites of rock are released in North America by the same company.

[ZenErik]

Definite buy for me. I love DMC

[Faris Kalin]

I'll definitely pick this up. The show is just full of such insanity.