Out This Week: I Married A Strange Person, Vlad Love, Dan Da Dan and More
It's another week so it's time for another edition of Out This Week, our regular new release round-up. Indie animation fans are well served this week with Deaf Crocodile Films releasing both Bill Plympton's cult classic I Married A Strange Person and Euro curio The Cathedral of New Emotions. Getting a physical release after a successful run on streaming is Dan Da Dan, in both standard and Collector's Edition.
New releases in the UK this week include Ex-Arm, Vlad Love, Date A Live V and God's Games We Play.
All information correct at time of publication to the best of our knowledge and is subject to change.
UK Releases For June 9, 2025
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Date A Live V (Crunchyroll LLC., 15) "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
A Destructive God Sits Next To Me (Anime Ltd., 12) "High school student Koyuki Seri has a disposition for whipping out witty retorts... but hates people who wait for those retorts! Much to his dismay, he had caught the eye of Hanadori Kabuto, who suffers from a terrible case of delusions of grandeur and everything about him could warrant a retort. Seri swears that he will never utter a retort about Kabuto, but he just can't hold back. Not to mention, there seem to be even more strange people gathering around him... A high school boys' comedy that'll make you laugh and laugh (but can also be cute at times) is about to start!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Ex-Arm: Complete Series (Anime Ltd., 15) "In the year 2014, a high school student who hates machines, Akira Natsume, wants to change himself for the better and tries to take the first step in doing that... But then he gets run over by a truck. Fast forward to 2030. A police officer named Minami Uezono and her partner, the android Alma, infiltrate the scene of a trade going on at Tokyo Harbor for an unknown weapon named “EX-ARM.” They are then attacked by an enemy armed with the “EX-ARM” No.08. Put in this life or death situation, they decide to activate the “EX-ARM” No.00 that they stole from the enemy, and...."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Gods Games We Play (Crunchyroll LLC., 15) " 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
Vlad Love (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
US Releases For July 10, 2025
The Cathedral of New Emotions (Deaf Crocodile Films, NR) "The year was 1972. A commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals set adrift in space in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Dan Da Dan (GKIDS/ Shout Factory, TV-MA) "DAN DA DAN follows Momo, a high school girl from a family of spirit mediums, and her classmate Okarun, an occult geek. The two of them start talking after Momo rescues Okarun from getting bullied. However, an argument ensues between them – Momo believes in ghosts but denies aliens, and Okarun believes in aliens but denies ghosts. Hoping to change the other’s mind, each of them agree that Momo will go to an abandoned hospital known for its UFO sightings, and Okarun will go to a tunnel that is said to be haunted. In each place, they encounter overwhelming paranormal entities that defy comprehension. In a moment of peril, Momo awakens her hidden power and Okarun gains the power of a curse to challenge the paranormal entities! Could this be the start of a fateful romance as well!? Now begins a new story of occult battles and adolescence!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray, Collector's Edition
Dungeon People (Sentai Filmworks, TV-14) "When Clay’s father, a highly skilled thief, disappears, she literally follows in his footsteps, training as a thief and then following his trail into the dungeon where he was last seen. However, while Clay thought she could handle the dungeon’s level bosses, she wasn’t prepared for the actual Boss of the dungeon, a young girl named Belle! And when Belle invites Clay to join the secret staff of workers who run the dungeon from behind the scenes, it’s too sweet a deal to pass up! Now going to the Dungeon isn’t an adventure for Clay, it’s her job as she becomes one of the Dungeon People!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
I Married A Strange Person (Deaf Crocodile Films, NR) "TNewlyweds Grant and Kelly encounter an ongoing parade of surreal situations after energy eruptions from a TV satellite dish raises a lobe on the back of Grant's neck. The lobe makes any fantasy come true, heightening the couple's sexual experiences, but media mogul Larson Giles wants the lobe in order to control TV viewers. Shown at 1997 film festivals (Toronto, Palm Springs, Sundance)."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Upcoming Releases
All dates subject to change.
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
Highlander The Animated series July 29
Plus-Sized Elf July 29
RWBY Volume 2 July 29
Wolf Children 4K+ Blu-Ray August 05
Looking For The Full Moon August 12
The Concierge August 12
Vampire Hunter D August 12
Metal Skin Panic Madox 01 September 16
Isle Of Dogs (Criterion Collection) September 30
Release information from Blu-Ray.com
