Hanabee has made a few new announcements this weekend that are welcome news for Australian fans as they’ve picked up two new series for release. The company has announced the pickup of Girls und Panzer as well as Case Closed. The former is a new release in North America this year that comes from Sentai Filmworks and the Australian release will be hitting in March 2014 on both DVD and Blu-ray and it will be a bilingual release. With Case Closed. details are a bit sparse at the moment but they’re going to release more information in the future. What we know at the moment is that they’ve picked up the first 52 episodes and will be releasing it in two sets on DVD only in bilingual form for %59.99 AUD. That show had been previously licensed and released for a number of episodes by FUNimation before low sales forced them to abandon doing any further releases. The did make a recent push in the US with the low-priced releases and have been streaming episodes on the FUNimation site.
Case Closed: The criminal mind is a twisted place, and Jimmy Kudo knows the shady corridors of humanity better than any detective in the game. There ain’t a bad guy in town who can outsmart him, so they try to put the super sleuth down for a dirt nap. But instead of ending up in a shallow grave, Jimmy wakes up to find himself turned back into a kid. Utilizing his unlikely new persona and the latest in crime-fighting gadgetry, he tracks down his assailants as boy detective Conan Edogawa.
Girls und Panzer: You may have heard of kung fu, but the girls at Oarai Academy practice gun-fu – really, really BIG gun-fu, in fact. It’s called Tankery, and it’s the martial art of operating armored tanks! And even though the Tankery program at Oarai has been defunct for years, the student council has taken a sudden interest in the art and no one they set their sights on is safe.
That’s how Miho Nishizumi, who transferred to Oarai specifically to stay out of tanks, gets drafted to join the newly revived Tankery divison. But it’s not all bad, because joining her in Team Anglerfish are her new-found friends Saori, the highly receptive radio operator; Hana, a flower arranger turned gunner; Mako, their brilliant but chronically sleepy driver; and combustible tank fangirl and loader Yukari. They may not be on the half-track to fame and fortune, and maybe some of them would rather shop for tank tops than become tops in tanks, but once their focus is locked and loaded, they’re absolutely driven.
