Out This Week: The Concierge, Paranoia Agent, Vampire Hunter D and More
Welcome back to another edition of Out This Week, your regular new release round-up. Leading this week's releases is the 2025 live-action/animation hybrid remake of How To Train Your Dragon, also available alongside the animated original. Also out is charming anime feature The Concierge, Looking For The Full Moon and old-school classic Vampire Hunter D.
New in the UK this week is anime auteur Satoshi Kon's only TV series, Paranoia Agent, as well as Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings In Russian and Jim Henson's The Storyteller.
All information is correct at time of publication to the best of our knowledge and is subject to change.
UK Releases For August 11, 2025
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings In Russian (Crunchyroll LLC, 15) "Transfer student Alya is beautiful, brilliant, and totally unavailable - or so people think. Between cruel insults toward her otaku classmate Kuze, she can’t help but blurt out her true feelings for him in Russian, unaware he understands every word!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Paranoia Agent (MVM Entertainment, 18) "Then darkness overcomes the heart and Lil' Slugger appears... After the first victim's story the police felt the overly stressed woman was having a breakdown and lied to cover up for some crime. However, after the third and fourth attacks upon unrelated victims led to the same description of a young attacker with a golden baseball bat and in-line skates, the police had to wonder: is the Lil' Slugger real or a sinister phantom? Explore a contagious madness in the first TV show directed by Satoshi Kon, the visionary director behind 'Perfect Blue', 'Millennium Actress' and 'Tokyo Godfathers'!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray STEELBOOK
Jim Henson's The Storyteller: The Complete Collection (Fabulous Films, U) "Aided by his cynical dog, The Storyteller (performed by renowned actor John Hurt) narrates retellings of classic folk tales, fables, and legends that combine humour, intrigue, and magic."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
US Releases For August 12, 2025
The Concierge (Crunchyroll LLC, TV-14) "There’s something weird about the Hokkyoku Department Store – all the customers are animals. There’s an owl who can’t find a something to placate his wife; there’s a wolf in search of a proposal gift to win another wolf’s heart; there’s a sea mink that just can’t find the right present for his dad. All of them hope to rely on Akino, the plucky concierge who’s there to help everyone from the lowliest town mouse to the hallowed “Very Important Animals”, some of whom were supposed to be extinct."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray (Sub Only)
How To Train Your Dragon: 2 Movie Collection (Universal, PG) " Featuring the original animated How To Train Your Dragon and the live-action remake."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray/ 4K UHD
How To Train Your Dragon (2025) (Universal Pictures, PG) "On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart. The inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast, Hiccup defies centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society."
FORMATS: 4K UHD, 4K Steelbook, Blu-Ray
KanoKon: The Girl Who Cried Fox (Media Blasters, 17+) "High school was never so weird! Kouta Oyamada is an uber innocent first-year high school student who transfers to Kunpō High School. On his first day at his new school, he meets a beautiful second-year female student named Chizuru Minamoto. Chizuru asks him to meet her alone in the music room where she confesses her passionate love for him and accidentally reveals to him that she is a yokai fox spirit! Chizuru constantly and openly flirts with Kouta, even in front of others, making it awkward and embarrassing for him. Soon, a wolf spirit yokai named Nozomu Ezomori transfers into Kouta's school and she is all over Kouta too! This causes Chizuru to become jealous and fight harder to compete for Kouta's affection. Kouta is out of his mind trying to cope with two competing yokai hotties!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Looking For The Full Moon: Volume One (AnimEigo, 7+) "Young Mitsuki loves singing and dreams of becoming a pop star. Unfortunately, a malignant tumor in her throat prevents her from pursuing her passion. However, her life turns around when two surprisingly fun-loving Death Spirits appear to grant Mitsuki a temporary reprieve from her illness and give her singing career a magical push start."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray LE
Vampire Hunter D (Sentai Filmworks, TV-MA) " 10,000 years in the future, the world has become a very different place; monsters roam the land freely, and people, although equipped with high tech weapons and cybernetic horses, live a humble life more suited to centuries past. The story focuses on a small hamlet plagued by monster attacks and living under the shadow of rule by Count Magnus Lee, a powerful vampire lord who has ruled the land for thousands of years. When a young girl is bitten by the Count and chosen as his current plaything, she seeks out help of a quiet wandering stranger, D. It so happens that D is one of the world`s best vampire hunters, and he takes it upon himself to cut through Magnus Lee`s many minions, and put an end to the Count`s rule."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Upcoming Releases
All dates subject to change.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation: Season 1 August 19
No Longer Allowed In Another World August 19
Queen's Blade August 19
The Colours Within August 25 [UK]
The King Of Kings August 26
The Huckleberry Hound Show August 26
Kokoro Connect August 26
City Hunter: Angel Dust: August 26
RWBY Volume 3 August 26
Lilo & Stitch (2025) August 26
Queen Millennia: The Complete Series September 02
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time September 9
Uzamaki September 9
Serial Experiments Lain [UK] September 15
Metal Skin Panic Madox 01 September 16
Tower Of God Season 2 Part 2 September 16
Ghost In The Shell SAC_2045 Season 2 September 16
Flow September 23
The Corpse Bride 4K September 22 [UK]
Aztec Batman: Clash Of Empires September 23
The Corpse Bride 4K September 23
Frieren: beyond Journey's End Part 2 September 23
Ergo Proxy [UK] September 29
Isle Of Dogs (Criterion Collection) September 30
Odd Taxi October 07
Peanuts: Ultimate TV Special Collection October 7
Spice and Wolf; Merchant Meets The Wise Wolf October 7
Light Of The World October 14
Bill Plympton's Mutant Aliens October 14
The Story Of Hong-Gil Dong October 14
Treasures Of Soviet Animation October 14
Arcane Season 2 4K/ Arcane Season 2 Blu-Ray/ Collector's Edition October 21
Appleseed October 21
Evangelion 1.11 You Are Not Alone October 21
Evangelion 2.22 You Can Not Advance October 21
Arcane Season 2 November 03 [UK]
Rick and Morty Season 8 November 10 [UK]
Looking For The Moon Part 2 November 11
Rick and Morty Season 8 November 18
The Glassworker December 22 [UK]
All release information from BluRay.com
