Out This Week: Gunbuster, Summer Ghost, Looney Tunes Collector's Choice and More

Welcome to another edition of Out This Week, Our weekly new release round-up. This week's releases are headed up by the long-anticipated Blu-Ray debut of the classic Gainax OVA Gunbuster, alongside A Wind Named Amnesia, Violet Evergarden The Movie, The Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume One and more. New to the UK this week are anime feature Pompo The Cinephile and Loundraw's animated short film Summer Ghost.

UK Releases For May 29, 2023

Pompo The Cinephile (Anime Ltd., 12)"A famous movie producer gives her young production assistant a chance to direct his first film."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Summer Ghost (Anime Ltd., 12)"Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo are high school students who met online. An urban legend speaks of a "summer ghost," a spirit girl who appears when fireworks are set off. Tomoya cannot live the life he envisioned for himself. Aoi cannot find her place in the world. Ryo has his once shining future suddenly pulled away. Each has their own reason for needing to meet the summer ghost. On a summer night when life and death cross paths, where will each of their emotions take them?"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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US Releases From May 30, 2023

Aim For The Ace The Movie (Discotek Media) "Handpicked by the new tennis coach as someone with great potential, freshman Hiromi Oka must endure lots of hardships as she struggles to become someone who can stand among the best junior players in Japan."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Gunbuster: The Complete OVA Series (Discotek Media) "2015: Earth's first faster-than-light ship, the Luxion, is lost, attacked by unidentified space monsters in the Perseus Arm. Six years later, Noriko Takaya, daughter of the Luxion's commander, enters the Okinawa Girls' Space Pilot High School, vowing to be a pilot and follow her father's trail to the stars. But is she prepared for the intense training to become a member of the elite Top Squadron? Noriko's fight has just begun and the fate of all humanity depends on her meeting the challenge!"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (Warner Bros) "Ranger Smith trys to send Yogi Bear to a zoo, but Yogi switches places with a different bear. His girlfriend Cindy wants to spend more time with him, but when she thinks Yogi is at the zoo she trys to go too. She gets captured by an evil circus owner. Yogi (now realizing he loves her) and Boo Boo try to get her home. When they find her they have to go through a huge chase throughout several cities to get home."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Kodocha: The Complete Second Series (Discotek Media)"It all starts with a surprise encounter with Sana’s new best friend, Fuka, who... she meets in the bathroom? Why does she hate Akito so much if they’ve only just met!? They say surprise awaits around every corner in middle school, but nobody could have seen that coming. Juggling showbiz with school life isn’t easy, and whether it’s relationship drama, tabloid troubles or drama on set, there’s never a dull moment at Jinbou Middle School. Join Sana, Akito, Babbit and a hilarious cast of characters new and old through stories of love, family and even a show on Broadway! How will Sana continue to juggle being a child actress with her new life in middle school? As if there wasn’t enough drama in showbiz, join Sana as she tries to juggle her stardom with the trials and tribulations of growing up."

FORMATS: SD Blu-Ray

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Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 1 (Warner Bros)

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Requiem Of The Rose King Part 2 (Crunchyroll LLC, TV-14) "King Edward IV is crowned, but George’s resentment gives Richard a wicked idea - to frame him for treason. After Edward’s health is jeopardized by a mysterious new mistress, Richard moves for the throne. But to end the War of the Roses, a final battle awaits"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Ultimate Muscle: The The Kinnikuman Legacy (Discotek Media) "A Legend Reborn!Years have passed since King Muscle and the Muscle League Champions vanquished the evil dMp wrestlers. Lacking strength to stand up for itself, the Earth must turn to the Kinniku family. All hope for salvation is in Kid Muscle. He’s been summoned to protect the earth from the group of outer space cheating wrestlers. He must join the Muscle League, a group of earth defending wrestlers from outer space. Can he achieve “Ultimate Muscle” and stop the dMp?"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Violet Evergarden: The Movie (Crunchyroll LLC, TV-14) "After the aftermath of a war, a young girl who was used as a 'tool' for war learned to live. With the scars of burns, she goes back to her past to feel the true feelings of the Major's, "I love you.""

FORMATS: Blu-Ray, 4K, Blu-Ray LE

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A Wind Named Amnesia (Discotek Media)"Two years after a wind caused all of humanity to forget everything, a young man travels cross-country in search of answers."

FORMATS Blu-Ray

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