Out This Week: Tower Of God, Tron Legacy 4K, Serial Experiments Lain and More
Welcome back, gentle reader to another fine edition of Out This Week. This week's releases include Tower Of God Season 2, Ghost In The Shell SAC_2045 Season 2, Food Wars Collector's Edition and Metal Skin Panic Maodx 01. Also released on 4K is the VFX classic Tron and its sequel Tron Legacy, arriving in time for the upcoming third film.
New in the UK this week is Black Bullet, Serial Experiments Lain, Bleach, I'm Quitting Heroing and Naoko Yamada's The Colours Within
All information correct to the best of our knowledge and is subject to change.
UK Releases For September 15, 2025
Black Bullet (Anime Ltd., 15) "It’s been 10 years since mankind was nearly wiped out by a parasitic virus known as Gastrea. With the survivors of war-torn Japan now forced to live within a protective barrier of monoliths, the Gastrea threat is diminished but still present. When a Gastrea does rear its ugly head, it’s up to the government employed Civil Security agents to take them down. Enter Promoter Rentaro Satomi and his Initiator, Enju Aihara, as they battle this growing threat that may soon overtake humanity once again."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Collector's Edition
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Bleach Part 7 (Anime Ltd., 15) "The appointment of new captain Shusuke Amagai leaves the members of Squad Three with mixed feelings, especially about the tasks he assigns. Will he be able to win their trust, and will the squad recover from its previous captain's betrayal? Meanwhile, a suspicious trio transfers to Ichigo's school in the World of the Living - and then Ichigo is thrust into a new battle as he encounters a group of assassins out to kill one of them!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
The Case File Of Jeweller Richard Collector's Edition (Anime Ltd., 15) "One night, a college student with a strong sense of justice, Seigi Nakata, saved a gorgeous foreigner, Richard, who was being harassed by some drunks.When Seigi found out that Richard was a jeweler, he asked for an appraisal on a ring with a shady history; one which his grandmother had kept secret until she died. The appraisal had revealed her past, truth, and desire. It led Seigi to work as a part-time employee for Richard’s jewelry store, the "Jewelry Etranger" in Ginza. While solving various "mysteries", the relationship between Richard and Seigi gradually changes."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
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The Colours Within (Anime Ltd., U) "High school girl Totsuko can see the colors of the emotions in people. In order to keep her friends and family from feeling dark feelings, she worries, reads situations, and even lies to smooth thing over. At an antique bookshop in the corner of Nagasaki, she meets a beautiful woman with an incredibly beautiful color and a music-loving boy trying to put together a band. The story follows these three sensitive people who gather together to play in a band."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
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I'm Quitting Heroing (Anime Ltd., 15) "After defeating the Demon King, former hero Leo Demonheart is learning that he was just a little too good at what he did, to the point that many now suspect that his real goal was to become the Demon King himself. Which, given that his name is Demonheart and he was created as part of a secret project, is perhaps not as far-fetched as it sounds, but now nobody wants to employ him, and a former hero has still got to eat. So, he applies for a job with the Demon King Echidna herself... but she doesn’t want him either. Fortunately, some of her subordinates are more appreciative of his skills, and if he wears a disguise, he might just get away with becoming the new bad boy on the block after deciding I’M QUITTING HEROING!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Serial Experiments Lain (MVM Entertainment, 12) "Acclaimed artist Yoshitoshi ABe (Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze) brings to life the existential classic that paved the way for blockbuster films such as The Matrix. Follow along as fourteen year old Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly looses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray Steelbook
Wistoria: Wand and Sword Season 1 (Crunchyroll LLC. 15) "In a world of magic, Will Serfort is looked down upon due to his inability to cast spells. But what he lacks in arcana he makes up for with his sword. Now he's defying the expectations of his peers as he chases a childhood promise - to become a top mage!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
US Releases For September 16, 2025
Days With My Stepsister (Crunchyroll LLC., TV-14) "New stepsiblings, Yuta and Saki, keep a respectful distance to ensure a happy home life. But soon, something new blossoms between the two."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Sōma: Season 1 (Sentai Filmworks, TV-14) "Tohtsuki Academy is THE elite school of fine cuisine, where only the crème de le crème can attend and just a tiny handful of those make it to graduation. Unfortunately, it’s also filled with elitist food snobs like Erina "God Tongue" Nakiri, so when diner chef Soma Yukihira steps up to the culinary plate, he finds a lot of knives and flames aimed in his direction. But Soma is no flash in the pan. He’s a spicing sensation whose amazing creations literally blow the clothes off even the most tested tasters… and anyone who thinks they can stop him belongs in a different kind of institution in Food Wars!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray Steelbook
Ghost In The Shell SAC_2045 Season 2 (Shout Factory/GKIDS, TV-MA) "The year is 2045. As a result of the Global Simultaneous Default, an economic disaster that shook every country on Earth to its foundations, as well as the explosive evolution of artificial intelligence, the world has plunged into the Sustainable War, a planned war that can be continued indefinitely. In this near future, the decline has not yet become bad enough that people can sense in their daily lives the risk to human survival posed by A.I. To combat cybercrimes by the Posthumans, a new breed of human being that has suddenly arisen, Public Security Section 9, led by the fully prosthetic cyborg Kusanagi Motoko, makes its way to Tokyo, which was reduced to ruins in a previous war. What they find there are a refugee group that calls itself “N” and a hostile American Special Forces unit. As the risk of nuclear war set off by a hijacked submarine grows ever greater, the three-way battle between Public Security Section 9, America, and the Posthumans intensifies."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
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Metal Skin Panic Madox 01 (AnimEigo, 13+) "Koji Kondo is a young mechanic who finds the Madox-01. He gets stuck inside the machine before he finishes reading the manual. He must now evade the government and find his girlfriend before she disappears forever."
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Ragna Crimson: Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks, TV-MA) "Few humans have more reason to hate dragons than Ragna, who seems cursed to lose everyone he loves to the ancient monsters. Unfortunately, Ragna’s abilities as a dragon hunter are inadequate, so he takes revenge by serving as the junior partner to young hunting prodigy Leonica… until he has a prophetic dream in which Leo is slain and multiple cities are destroyed. Confronted by an apparition from his future, Ragna finds himself wielding new powers that should be far beyond his reach. Have mankind’s greatest foes finally met their match? Find out as a new apex predator is born in Ragna Crimson!"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray
Tower of God Season 2, Part 1 (Crunchyroll LLC, TV-14) "Wangnan, a wannabe king, is desperate to reach the next level - him and everyone else on this floor. But on his last chance, a hardened FUG stands in the way. Everyone has a reason to climb, but is anyone's resolve strong enough to advance?"
FORMATS: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Steelbook
Tron 4K (Disney, PG) "As Kevin Flynn searches for proof that he invented a hit video game, he is digitized by a laser and finds himself inside "The Grid", where programs suffer under the tyrannical rule of the Master Control Program. With the help of a security program called "TRON", Flynn seeks to free The Grid from the MCP."
FORMATS: 4K UHD Steelbook
Tron Legacy 4K (Disney, PG) "The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed."
FORMATS: 4K UHD Steelbook
Upcoming Releases
All dates subject to change.
Flow September 23
The Corpse Bride 4K September 22 [UK]
Elio September 22 [UK]
Aztec Batman: Clash Of Empires September 23
Bartender: Glass Of God 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
Castlevania: The Complete Series September 30
Blue Lock Episode Nagi September 30
My Life As A Zucchini September 30
Touche Turtle and DumDum September 30
Odd Taxi October 07
Peanuts: Ultimate TV Special Collection October 7
Robot Chicken: complete series October 7 (DVD)
Spice and Wolf; Merchant Meets The Wise Wolf October 7
The Bad Guys 2 October 7
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time October 7
The Dark Crystal 4K Steelbook 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
Appleseed October 21
Robotech: The Macross Saga October 21
Spy Family Season 1 October 21
One Piece Collection's 1 and 2 (DVD) October 21
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners October 23
Cyborg 0009 Vs Devilman October 28
Darkstalkers: The Animated Series October 28
Golden Boy October 28
Shin Chan: Complete Edition October 28
Smurfs October 28
Urotsukidoji: The Sequels October 28
When They Cry Season 1 October 28
King Arthur and The Knights of Justice October 28
Arcane Season 2 November 03 [UK]
Dragon Ball Super: Broly [steelbook] November 04
Rick and Morty Season 8 November 10 [UK]
Looking For The Moon Part 2 November 11
Attack On Titan: The final season November 11
Rick and Morty Season 8 November 18
My Hero Academia Season Seven, Part Two November 18
Akiba Maid Wars November 18
One Piece Collection 39 November 25
Devilman Crybaby December 09
Tom & Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology December 09
Black Jack The Complete OAVs December 16
The Glassworker December 22 [UK]
