Out This Week: Tekkonkinkreet, Cutie Honey, Blue Giant and More
Welcome back to another fine edition of Out This Week. This week's releases include several old-school anime titles including Chie The Brat, Cutie Honey and Digimon Adventure 02 Season Two. Also out is Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS and Photon: The Idiot Adventures.
New in the UK this week is a new release of modern classic Tekkonkinkreet, musical movie Blue Giant, The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy, and Watchmen Part One and Two.
All information is correct at publication time to the best of our knowledge and is subject to change.
UK Releases For February 24, 2025
The Apothecary Diaries: Season 1, Part 1 (Crunchyroll LLC. 15) "Kidnapped and made a servant in the royal palace, Maomao’s apothecary skills catch the eye of a handsome official… who tasks her with tasting food for poison. But as mysterious death and illness befall the kingdom, she’ll use her talents to find the truth. "
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Blue Giant Collector's Edition (Anime Ltd., 12) "Dai Miyamoto's life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. A former high school basketball player, Dai picks up a saxophone and begins practicing day and night, determined to become one of the greatest of all time. He leaves his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, but soon finds the life of a professional musician is not for the faint of heart. His passion eventually wins over the cocky but talented pianist Yukinori, and after Dai convinces his friend Shunji to learn the drums, they launch a new jazz trio whose rough sound contains a raw energy that quickly wins attention from local audiences. But what does it take to truly be great?"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy: Complete Collection (MVM Entertainment, 15) "1000 years ago, Leonis Death Magnus, the King of the Undead, sealed himself in suspended animation with a plan to be reborn and re-marshal his demonic armies anew. Instead, he awakens to a world where magic has changed, a new race of monsters terrorizes the planet, and he’s now a 10-year-old boy. Fortunately, his beautiful “rescuers” think he’s a normal lad with amnesia and decide to send him to an elite magical school… which is the perfect place to give those plans for world conquest a serious rethink as he poses as The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Gate: Complete Collection (Anime Ltd., 15) "When a dimensional rift appears in downtown Tokyo and begins spewing an army of monsters and men in medieval armor, 33-year-old JSDF officer Yoji Itami’s hobbies of fantasy novels and video games suddenly complement his military training and help rout an invasion from another world! They also make him a natural choice for the first major expeditionary force to be sent into the Gate, and what he and the JSDF find on the other side is both amazing and terrifying. Elves. Dragons. Beast people.But there’s a far worse danger to be feared, because while spears, shields and even giant teeth can be countered with modern weapons, nothing is as ruthless, deadly or hard to stop as the treachery of men who will sacrifice anything or anyone in order to control the new world on the other side of the GATE."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Collector's Edition
Tekkonkinkreet (Anime Ltd., 12) "Black and White are two street urchins. They have no home, no parents… only each other. They steal, mug, beat people… It's not the yakuza that owns Treasure town, it's Black (the smart, bitter one) and White (the dumb, innocent one). But when a developer wants to turn the dark, ugly streets into an amusement park, he brings about challengers that even Black will have trouble against!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Watchmen: Chapters I & II (Warner Bros., 15) "DC Animation's adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's "Watchmen"."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
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Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun (Anime Limited., 15) "Iruma Suzuki's parents were horrible, nasty people who didn't just mistreat him, they literally sold his soul to a demon! Ironically, however, it turns out surprisingly well, as it seems that the Demon has always wanted a grandson and is determined to make Iruma fit into that role… even if that means that Iruma has to go to school with all the other demon kids. Since Iruma's never had a decent education, he's fine with that, but there's a catch: if anyone learns that he's human, his classmates will eat him! Talk about pressure to fit in! Amazingly, Iruma manages to blend in fairly well with his devilishly good new friends! Now, if he could only stop nearly giving himself away by trying to do nice things, he might even survive to graduate!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
US Releases For February 25, 2025
Chie the Brat: 2nd TV Series (Discotek Media) "Things are finally starting to look up for Chie! While the spitfire schoolgirl is still running the family restaurant for her deadbeat bum of a dad, Tetsu, she’s the happiest she’s ever been! However, her good mood isn’t going to stop Tetsu from mucking it all up for the umpteenth time! But as long as her grandparents and skid row’s crafty characters are still around, Chie’s sure to prevail over any further travails headed her way!"
FORMATS SD Blu-Ray
Cutie Honey: The Original TV Series (Discotek Media) "One day, Honey Kisaragi’s a trendy, class-cutting Catholic schoolgirl. The next, her father’s been murdered by demonic divas from a dastardly organization called Panther Claw. When his dying message reveals that she’s an android, Honey uses the transformative power of the Atmospheric Element Condenser - the very thing Panther Claw wanted to steal - to seek revenge against the shadowy clan. Can Honey fight her way up Panther Claw’s ranks to defeat its leader, the sinister Sister Jill, while managing to escape the watchful eyes of Miss Hystler, her school’s headmistress?"
FORMATS: SD Blu-Ray
Digimon Adventure Season 2 (Japanese Language Version) (Discotek Media ) "Return to the Digital World with a new Digimon Adventure! A new enemy arrives three years after Taichi & the gang restored peace to the Digital World, the Digimon Kaiser! With his Dark Towers blocking them from evolving, Augmon and friends need help from a new generation to fight back! Daisuke and V-mon arrive to battle the Digimon Kaiser with new friends Miyako and Lori. Alongside the returning Hikari and Takeru, the adventures of these new Chosen Children will unfold with new evolutions and old friends!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS (Discotek Media) "When a fire breaks out at the airport, a little girl cries, lost in the carnage. But just as she’s about to succumb to tragedy, another girl just a few years older comes to her rescue; a mage from the Administrative Bureau. The eyes of that older girl pierced through the smoke and the flames, right into the little girl’s heart. She cried out, not in suffering, but in frustration at her own helplessness. At that moment, she decided: “I will become strong.” Four years later, that little girl is now the size of her savior she met that day. She now knows the identity of her idol: Nanoha Takamachi, ace of the Bureau’s Air Force. To the little girl, she represents an unattainable height: a star in the distance, far beyond the clouds. But that little girl had made up her mind. Even if she can’t fly, even if she can’t reach the stars, she will stand on her own two feet, arms outstretched, reaching out for them. Subaru Nakajima looks up to the sky. She is age 15. And she’s going to move forward, towards her dreams."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Photon: The Idiot Adventures (Discotek Media) "It is a time in the distant future, or perhaps even the past… A major, unknown disaster caused the axis of a certain planet to be distorted, causing civilization to disappear, and nearly 90% of the planet’s landmass to become desert. A problem has arisen in a village in this world. Aun, the granddaughter of the village chief, falls in love at first sight with a bard who has come to perform a sub-musical instrument, and chases after him, taking the village’s treasure. Photon is asked by the village chief to bring her back, and although he manages to retrieve the village’s treasure from Aun, he is unable to bring her back, and instead ends up being dropped to the bottom of the “Treasure Valley” by Aun’s sub-magic! There, Photon discovers a strange, huge lump of iron. It is the remains of Kine’s spaceship, which crashed here 700 years ago…"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Star Musketeer Bismark: Complete Series (Discotek Media) "Fifteen years ago, humanity narrowly avoided extinction at the hands of Deathcula - a destructive star-born scourge. Since then, the Deathcula have returned to establish a foothold on Ganymede. With their forces spread too thin to fight back, the Earth Federation is forced to dispatch their ultimate weapon - the Bismark. Its pilots aren’t exactly model citizens, but if they can put their egos aside, they just might be the galaxy’s best chance against Deathcula’s forces."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Tales Of Wedding Rings: Season One (Crunchyroll LLC., TV-MA) "Unable to tell Hime how he feels, Satou follows her through a portal to another world. Now, he’s suddenly replacing the groom at her wedding! And with the vows comes an expected marital duty - become the Ring King, the prophesied savior of this world!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Upcoming Releases
All dates subject to change.
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
Undead Unluck March 25
City Hunter: Angel Dust March 31 [UK]
Mufasa: The Lion King March 31 [UK]
Mufasa: The Lion King April 01
My Hero Academia: You're Next April 01
Dog Man April 01
Summer Wars 4K April 01
Better Man April 07 [UK]
Urusei Yatsura: Seasons 1 & 2 April 14 [UK]
Metal Skin Panic Madox April 15
Batman Ninja Vs Yazuka League April 15
Demon Slayer Yimetsu No Yaiba : Hashira Training Arc April 22
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
