Flying Dog productions does a lot of good promotion – and sometimes odd promotion – for a variety of their projects and today has a new SPOT compilation promotional video of several things related to Arpeggio of Blue Steel. With the show just now debuting, we’ve got the first commercial for the upcoming DVD/BD releases (details below) as well as a look at the various music releases, music videos and more related to the series whose manga is being released in North America in 2014 by Seven Seas Entertainment. Volume 1 will be released in July 2014 and volume 2 will follow in October 2014.
The show is getting a six disc release on both DVD and Blu-ray where the Blu-rays are priced at 6825 yen and the DVDs at 5775 yen each. The first volume is set to come with a series box for it, at least from Amazon Japan, while CD Japan is listing that the first Blu-ray release, which has two episodes, will also come with a bonus CD for the original soundtrack for the first volume, a booklet, an illustrated card set, three photo cards and a new digipak illustraiton. The only on-disc extra right now is the promo video collection. CD Japan is also listing through them an extra bonus of a 2013 special calendar for the series.
Plot Concept: In the story, a Fleet of Fog loaded with super weapons suddenly appear all over the world. Without the ability to withstand this fleet, humanity was defeated and could no longer travel the seas. 17 years after the devastating naval war, Chihaya Gunzou and his friends somehow commandeer a Fleet of Fog submarine and rename it I-401. Together with Iona, they take on the Fleet of Fog.
