Planet With

Discotek Media announced a whole new slate of new licenses and upcoming releases at their Anime Boston panel on Saturday, including Blu-ray releases of Planet With, Aho Girl and more.

Announcements made during the panel are in alphabetical order.

Aho Girl: Subtitle-only Blu-ray release scheduled for August 2022.

Aho Girl is coming to Blu-ray!

The daily everyday life gag comedy of a girl who isn’t that smart & her friends!

Clean OPs & EDs (quite a few of those) plus promos!

Only 1500 copies! pic.twitter.com/YezwXTmyW7

— ????Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) May 28, 2022

Flying Phantom Ship: Released for the first time on Blu-ray, will include original Japanese with subtitles track and brand new English dub from Kocha Sound. Expected to release late 2022.

The Flying Phantom Ship is coming to Blu-ray for the 1st time… anywhere!

The film is subbed, plus has the brand new dub you just got a preview of!

Extras to be announced!

Coming later this year! pic.twitter.com/yTJmzxlM1E

— ????Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) May 28, 2022

Lupin the 3rd: Dead or Alive: Blu-ray release with subtitle and Funimation dub tracks. Bonus features to include an interview with Monkey Punch, trailers, art gallery and credits. Expected to release later in 2022. 

Lupin the Third- Dead or Alive is coming to Blu-ray!

The theatrical film that was directed by Lupin creator Monkey Punch!

Subbed, plus the classic Funimation dub.

This one has a Monkey Punch interview, gallery, trailers, & more! pic.twitter.com/xNiu6ifZdX

— ????Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) May 28, 2022

Planet WIth: Subtitle-only Blu-ray release with special features including an alternate finale episode with different music cues. Scheduled to release in August 2022. 

Planet With is coming to Blu-ray!

High-speed & action-packed battling with a mecha cat!

Good extras for this one, including an alternate music version of the final episode!

Some of the most dynamic audio we’ve ever heard on a disc! pic.twitter.com/zfg5yidncb

— ????Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) May 28, 2022

Shogun’s Samurai (live-action): Subtitle-only Blu-ray release of Kinji Fukusaku’s film starring Sonny Chiba. Scheduled to release in Fall 2022 under the new Nihon Nights label. 

Shogun’s Samurai!

With the new translation the movie should be more enjoyable to watch than ever before.

Really nice packaging design for this one. pic.twitter.com/d08aSNMVQg

— ????Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) May 28, 2022

Symphogear AXZ: Subtitle-only Blu-ray release scheduled to release in Fall 2022. 

Symphogear AXZ is coming this fall to Blu-ray!

The disc is stuffed full with extras once again!

The entire BD production team for the 1st 3 BDs came back for AXZ, so some good consistency.

We broke various BD subtitle format limits quite a few times putting this one together. pic.twitter.com/rDrFVH6dr0

— ????Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) May 28, 2022

Virtua Fighter: SD-BD release with subtitle and original Anime Works dub tracks (first 24 episodes) with other special features still to be announced. Expected to release later in 2022. 

Virtua Fighter is coming to SD-BD!

All 35 episodes subbed, plus the vintage dub that exists for the first 24 episodes is also here!

Extras will be announced later. pic.twitter.com/rEp76c49uV

— ????Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) May 28, 2022

The panel additionally gave updates for the upcoming releases of Beezlebub, Fatal Fury the motion picture, Lupin the 3rd vs Detective Conan TV Special and more in the Twitter announcement thread


Kyle Cardine is a Managing Editor for Crunchyroll. You can find his Twitter here.

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