Early in July, the home video release scheduled for M3 – That Black Steel got changed significantly as it went from a seeries of eight singles down to a couple of box sets, which is generally not a good side. It can be mildly good news for fans who want to buy since it gets a little cheaper, but largely it just says that there’s not a lot of faith in the show moving the needed copies to cover the costs of the production. While that change has gone through, the first promo has surfaced for that set. The first is set to land on November 5th, 2014 while the second come son February 3rd, 2015. The Blu-ray set is priced at 27,000 yen while the DVDs are priced at 23,760 yen.
The series is being produced by Satelight and it has a pretty interesting core trio that are designing the project. Junichi Sato is directing based on the scrpits by Mari Okada and mechanical designs by Shoji Kawamori. They’re working with Hideki Inoue who is adaptating the character designs from Onigusnso’s original designs while Takatoshi Hamano is doing sound direction. Hajime Sakita is doing the soundtrack while May’n will be doing the opening theme.
Plot concept: A distorted, endlessly black darkness. The location where the dark swallowed everything and took everything from us has become known as the Lightless Realm. Born there, as if they were mirror images of the despair and chaos humans felt, were aberrations. They were called Admonitions. An investigation of the Lightless Realm that eats away at the human psyche. Can a group of eight boys and girls gathered in an effort to combat the Admonitions see the light of the future beyond the Lightless Realm, while their past destinies and dangerous present intertwine in a complicated web?
