Out This Week: The First Slam Dunk, LOTR: The War of the Rohirrim and more
Welcome back once again to Out This Week, your regular new release round-up! New this week is a 4K edition of smash hit sports anime The First Slam Dunk, the animated return to middle-earth with The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim and season 2 of Heaven Official's Blessing. Also out are anime titles Bucchigiri?!, Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp and My Isekai Life.
New in the UK this week are anime titles The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids: A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero's Party and The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash.
All information is correct at publication time to the best of our knowledge and is subject to change.
UK Releases For February 17, 2025
The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids: A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero's Party - The Complete Season (Crunchyroll LLC., 15) "Rud doesn’t raid labyrinths as a shield with the Hero’s Party for the riches, but to cure his ill sister. Legend has it there lies a treasure within the labyrinths that grants wishes, but before Rud can find it, the arrogant hero kicks him out. With nowhere to go, he’s forced to return home, but not before saving a young girl who reveals his true power—the highest defense stat in history!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash - The Complete Season (Crunchyroll LLC., 12) "Stars are everything, granting abilities to Tamers. So when Ivy was born without one, her village took it as an ill omen! Now banished, she leads a lonely life of salvaging rubbish to survive. That is until she befriends Sora, a weak little slime, in the forest. Together, the delicate duo embarks on a heartwarming journey of survival and discovers there’s more to Ivy than being starless."
US Releases For February 18, 2025
Bucchigiri?!: The Complete Season (Crunchyroll LLC., TV-14) "Transferring schools is tough - especially when you land a date with a gang leader’s sister, realize your childhood friend is on the other side of a turf war, and have to hang with a punch-happy genie who’s supposed to help you lose your virginity."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
The First Slam Dunk 4K (GKIDS/Shout Factory, PG-13) "Hanamichi Sakuragi is a delinquent with a long history of getting dumped by girls. After enrolling in Shohoku High School, Hanamichi becomes interested in a girl named Haruko who loves the game of basketball."
FORMATS: 4K+Blu-Ray
Heaven Official's Blessing: Season 2 (Crunchyroll LLC, TV-14)"Xie Lian must face his troubled past after being tasked with rescuing a Heavenly Official from the ghost realm. Deception, vice, and danger lurk around every corner on the journey. Will Xie Lian be prepared for the truth about gods, ghosts, and mortals?"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray+DVD
Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp (Aniplex, 16+) "Spring break, an interval of time between the second and third year of high school. Koyomi Araragi encounters a blood-chillingly beautiful woman. The iron-blooded, hot-blooded, cold-blooded Vampire, she calls herself "Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade." On the brink of death after losing her four limbs, she asks Koyomi to save her. After experiencing fear, chaos, and finally conflict, Koyomi gives his own blood in order to save her.
But when he awakens, he finds himself re-born as her vampire kin. Koyomi wishes to revert to being a human from a vampire. However, he must take back all of Kiss-shot's limbs to do so. Working as a negotiator, Meme Oshino stands in middle ground as Koyomi attempts to recapture her four limbs by challenging three powerful vampire hunters.This hellish spring break, the final one of his high school life, is only just beginning."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray CE Crunchyroll Store Exclusive
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (Warner Bros., PG) "A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg."
FORMATS: 4K, Blu-Ray, Steelbook 4K, DVD
My Isekai Life: Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks, TV-14) "As a novice level Monster Tamer, Yuji would normally be one of the last ones chosen when putting together a dungeon delving party. However, thanks to a clever trick involving a bunch of slimes, Yuji has also absorbed the archived knowledge of a great Sage and secretly gained an incredibly powerful second class! And if that’s not enough, he’s actually from a place called Japan in another world, which adds even more tricks up his sleeve! But even with these abilities and the help of his slimes, a magical Proud Wolf, and a forest spirit named Dryad, will that be enough to face off against rock dragons, sinister cults and gangs of slavers? Yuji had better hope so, because fate and fortune seem determined to put him into the most ridiculously dangerous situations as often as possible in My Isekai Life!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray Steelbook
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special: Season 1 (Crunchyroll LLC., TV-MA) "After failing to save the world, Desir is sent back to his first day at magic academy, thirteen years ago. Armed with his memories, he vows to rewrite history. But first, he must overcome an elitist system and earn a spot in the top-ranked class."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Upcoming Releases
All dates subject to change.
Chie The Brat Season 2 February 25
Cutie Honey February 25
Digimon Adventure Season 2 February 25
The Place Further Than the Universe February 25
Rise Of The Shield Hero Season 3 February 25
The Lord Of The Rings: War For Rohirrim March 3 [UK]
Akira 4K Steelbook March 4
Ghost Cat Anzu March 4
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia March 11
Moana 2 March 17 [UK]
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Part 2 March 18
Spy X Family Code White March 18
Spy X Family Season 2 March 18
Moana 2 March 18
Memoir Of A Snail March 25
Star Trek Lower Decks: The Final Season March 25
The Apothecary Diaries Season 1 Part 2 March 25
City Hunter: Angel Dust March 31 [UK]
Mufasa: The Lion King March 31 [UK]
Summer Wars 4K April 01
Better Man April 07 [UK]
Urusei Yatsura: Seasons 1 & 2 April 14 [UK]
Metal Skin Panic Madox April 15
A Place Further Than The Universe April 29
Urseri Yatsura Seasons 3 & 4 Collection April 29
Nobody's Boy Remi May 13
All release information from BluRay.com
