FUNimation Entertainment, a North American licensor and distributor of Japanese anime, has recently announced their Super Amazing Value Editions of DVDs, or S.A.V.E. for short, for some of their anime DVD series, movies and OVAs. The website states: "What to add to your collection without breaking the bank? Bring home a bargain with the Super Amazing Value Edition!"
These DVD box sets will contain the entire anime series, and each one will be available for under $30. A total of 11 anime titles have been listed on the website as having a S.A.V.E. edition coming out: Moonphase, Aquarion, Kanon, Pumpkin Scissors, King of Bandit Jing in Seventh Heaven, Blade of Phantom Master, Strain:Strategic Armored Infantry, Air TV, Baldr Froce EXE, Venus Versus Virus and Galaxy Railways. A trailer posted on the S.A.V.E website also lists UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, Hell Girl, School Rumble, Moeyo Ken TV and Suzuka. The anime box sets will be the same as the previous Viridian collection release, but with a reduced price and a S.A.V.E. sticker or logo on the box of the anime.
The most recent anime box set to have been released was Moonphase. Aquarion will be the next S.A.V.E anime to be released on March 30th. The Moonphase anime set has slimmed down DVD extras.
Moonphase Anime
In the Moonphase anime, photographer Kohei Morioka is visiting a castle in germany to take pictures for an occult magazine. There he finds the vampire Hazuki, who drinks his blood in order to make him her servant. This has no effect on Kohei, but he is still able to break the barrier keeping the vampire within the castle. Hazuki continues to say that Kohei is her servant, even though he refuses to listen to her, and begins living with him in his grandfather's home.
The S.A.V.E. edition of the anime contains all 26 episodes. Moonphase was previously released by FUNimation on individual DVDs and a higher priced boxed set of the anime. The MSRP of this set is $29.98.
Anime Distributor FUNimation Entertainment
FUNimation Entertainment, a Texas-based anime licensor and distributor, has been producing the English versions of anime series and movies since 1994. Popular titles that FUNimation has released in the past include Dragon Ball Z, Fruits Basket and Fullmetal Alchemist. Recently the company acquired the rights to dub and distribute the anime Dragon Ball Z Kai. The company has also recently begun streaming anime online for free on both their YouTube channel and on their own streaming anime website, FUNimation Video. There they run subtitled and English dubbed versions of their shows, like Black Cat and Gunslinger Girl, and subtitled versions of new anime episodes recently aired in Japan, such as One Piece and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
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