Warner Bros. Japan is bringing another show out of the archives for a new release with the 1994 anime series Red Baron, which they announced earlier this summer. The distributor has set up a 49-episode Blu-ray box set that will land on September 28th ,2016 that will be priced at 49,000 yen. With the release just under a month away, we now have a look at the finaliezd packaging and design for the set that ought to delight fans.
According to the description, it’s working off a new telecine so it should look pretty great overall when it finally arrives. No extras are detailed for it yet.
The series aired starting in the spring of 1994 as an original series that was directed by Akio Sakai based on the series composition from Junki Takegami. Satoshi Hirayama worked on the character designs. The series stars Ikuya Sawaki as Kaizer/Dr. Tetsuo Saeba, Kappei Yamaguchi as Ken Kurenai and Wataru Takagi as Chatatsu Lee.
Plot concept: In the future, the “Metal Fight” games are the most popular televised sport in the world and many robot contestants compete for the title of Best Metal Fighter in the World. Kurenai Ken, along with teammate Saeba Shoko (who was, at first, adamant), pilots the Super Robot Fighter, Red Baron and enters the contest with dreams of becoming its champion. He must, however, face an army of other rivals from around the world including Kaizer (who is, in fact, Shoko’s supposedly “lost” father, Tetsuo Saeba), the Tetsumen Tou (“Iron Fist” – a reference to the original Red Baron TV series) doctors, Tiger and ShinRon.
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