Discotek Media has brought over a fair number of anime classics that were adapted years and years ago that older fans saw as kids and they’ve had some good luck with them overall. Two that they did in the last year were the two Unico movies, and now that Japan is set to release the films on Blu-ray, Discotek Media will take the plunge as well later this year. ”
We will release both Unico movies on Blu Ray later this year in a double feature!
— Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) May 10, 2013
You can read our reviews of the two films here and here.
Fantastic Adventures of Unico: Unico the Unicorn has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. Whether it’s because of his personality or the powers of his horn, no one knows. However, the gods become jealous of Unico, thinking that only they should be able to decide or allow people to be happy. Unico is banished to the Hill of Oblivion, and the West Wind is ordered to take him there. She can’t stand giving this fate to Unico, so Unico’s adventures begin, as the West Wind takes him from one place and time to the next, in a never ending journey to escape the wrath of the gods.
Unico in the Magic Island: Unico the unicorn has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. In this adventure, Unico finds himself with a new friend, a young girl named Cherry. However, Cherry’s long lost older brother Toby has finally come home, and is now a misguided apprentice to an insane (and not human) magician named Kuruku. When Cherry’s parents get turned into weird, almost zombie-like dolls called living puppets, she and Unico start a quest to the very ends of the earth to get her parents and brother back before Kuruku takes over the world.
[Source: The Fantastic Adventures of Unico / Unico in the Island of Magic]
