Out This Week: Vlad Love, Iwakakeru! Sport Climbing Girls, Date A Live V and More

 

Welcome back to yet another Out This Week, our regular round-up of the latest animation releases. Not too many release this week but there is a decent selection of anime titles including Armor Shop For Ladies and Gentlemen, Vlad Love, Date A Live V,  Insomniacs After School and God's Games We Play, as well as a 4K Release of Batman Ninja.

New in the UK this week is Iwakakeru! Sport Climbing Girls, Shangri-La Frontier and the adaptation of the popular British newspaper comic-strip The Perishers.

All details correct at the time of publication but are subject to change.

UK Releases For May 19, 2025

Iwakakeru! Sport Climbing Girls (Anime Ltd., 12) "Sport climbing is a sport that makes use of both the body and the brain to climb walls. Kasahara Konomi, a master at puzzles, just happens to discover her school's climbing wall, and it looks almost like a colorful sort of puzzle in her eyes. This fateful encounter brings big changes to Konomi's life! With her teammates in the Hanamiya Girls' High School Climbing Club, Konomi races for the top in this passionate climbing story!"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Limited Edition [AllTheAnime Exclusive]

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The Perishers The Complete Series (Fabulous Films, U) "Television adaptation of a popular British newspaper cartoon strip. The series follows the adventures of a group of four children, Wellington, Marlon, Maisie and Baby Grumpling. Plus their intellectual dog, Boot."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray, DVD

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Shangri-La Frontier Season 1, Part 2 (Crunchyroll LLC., 12) "After an almost endless grind, Sunraku is on a whole new level. Now with his party of fellow trash gamers, he’s ready for anything SLF can throw. But is he truly ready for a god-tier boss? It’s time for him to test his vorpal soul in this epic encounter."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

  Buy From Amazon

US Releases For May 20, 2025

ABCiee Working Diary: Complete Series (Anime Ltd., 12+) "ABCiee is a bit klutzy and ditsy, but he’s full of spunk and he starts his dream job at a TV station! This is a work comedy filled with all kinds of hijinks! “I never knew it was so hard working at a TV station, ciee!” Despite having to face the unknown rules of the TV business, unique coworkers, and guest stars who have very particular quirks, ABCiee takes them head on with his positivity. Work, love, family, whatever goes!! Please watch over ABCiee as he takes on the TV business."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray [Crunchyroll Store Exclusive]

Buy From Crunchyroll Store 

Armor Shop For Ladies and Gentlemen (Anime Ltd., 15) "Kurtz, Store owner Narden, Clerk Liletta, and the rest of the armor shop crew are out gathering supplies to make their naughty armor, with the help of their own in-house Demon King. With the Demon King’s incredible power, they win all their battles easily. But on the way home, they meet a piece of armor that falls from the sky. What do they see then…?Welcome, travelers, to the Armor Shop for Ladies and Gentlemen."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray [Crunchyroll Store Exclusive]

Buy From Crunchyroll Store

Batman Ninja (Warner Bros., NR) "Batman, along with a number of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transplanted from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan.

FORMATS: 4K

  Buy From Amazon

Date Alive V (Crunchyroll LLC., TV-14) "Now that Shido has sealed 10 Spirits, DEM Industries leader Issac Westcott begins his true plans. On February 20, DEM will kill Shido and plunder the Spirits. Now, Ratatoskr must exhaust all efforts to protect Shido from this fate."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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God Games We Play (Crunchyroll LLC., TV-14) "Idle gods starved for entertainment give humanity the chance to challenge them - in games?! And anyone that earns 10 wins will be granted one wish. Now, strategic Fay and former god Leshea enter the games, ready to defy its deities!"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Insomniacs After School (Sentai Filmworks, TV-14) "In the small city of Nanao, insomniac Ganta Nakami tries to catch a nap in his school's abandoned astronomical observatory. There he stumbles upon a sociable and carefree girl named Isaki Magari who has the same problem. The two form an awkward friendship and reestablish their school's defunct astronomy club."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Vlad Love: The Complete Series (Anime Ltd. 15) "Mitsugu Bamba is a high school girl who is crazy about donating her blood, to the point that she feels compelled to visit a local blood bank despite the unfriendly nurse. One day, Mitsugu encounters a beautiful girl there who looks like she has come from overseas. The girl is so pale that she appears ready to faint. Instead, she suddenly starts trashing the blood bank. The girl then loses consciousness and so Mitsugu takes her home…"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray [Crunchyroll Store Exclusive]

Buy From Crunchyroll Store

Upcoming Releases

All dates subject to change.

Evangelion: 3.0+1.11 Thrice Upon a Time 4K  May 26 [UK]

Angel Heart May 27

The Colors Within May 27

The Day The Earth Blew Up May 27

Professor Layton and The Eternal Diva May 27

Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend - Collection 1 May 27

Street Fighter The Animated Series May 27

Riding Bean June 02 [UK]

Chang An June 02 [UK]

Pigtails and Other Shorts June 03

Tokyo Marble Chocolate June 03

I Married A Strange Person June 10

Romeo's Blue Skies June 10

Dan Da Dan+ Collector's Edition June 10

Dungeon People June 10

Towanoquon: Complete Collection June 17

Looney Tunes Collector's Vault  Volume 1 (1930-1969) June 17

My Hero Academia Season Seven Part One June 17

Flow June 30 [UK]

Call Of The Night- Season 1  July 01

Grave Of The Fireflies July 08

NieR Automata Version 1.a Vol. 2 July 08

Romeo's Blue Skies July 15

Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Collection  July 15

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings In Russian July 22

Small Soldiers 4K July 22

Solo Levelling Season 1 July 22

Momokyun Sword: Complete Collection July 22

Chainsaw Man: Season 1 July 29

Plus-Sized Elf July 29

Wolf Children 4K+ Blu-Ray August 05

Looking For The Full Moon August 12

Metal Skin Panic Madox 01 September 16