With its limited theatrical run done back in December 2014, Aniplex USA is now setting its sights on the home video release of Expelled from Paradise. The company is bringing it out on June 5th, 2015 in both a regular and limited edition form on Blu-ray only. The standard edition is priced at $49.98 and will come with the feature on one disc with no extras. It’ll be a bilingual release that features Wendee Lee as Angela Balzac, Steve Blum as Dingo and Johnny Yong Bosch as Frontier Setter. The cover will be illustrated by Masatsugu Saito.
The limited edition release will be priced at $64.98 and will include a second disc thta has the bonus materials, which is made up of a Making Of feature and the trailers. THe packaging materials here include a box art illustration by Masatsugu Saito, a deluxe booklet and a pin-up card.
The feature is an original work from Gen Urobuchi, who has certainly carved out a following in the last few years with shows like Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero, with Toei doing the production for it along with nitro+. Seiji Muzshima is directing with Rie Kgumiya and Miki Shinichiro set to star.
Plot concept: With Earth now left in ruins following the “NanoHazard,” most of humanity has abandoned the planet they once called home along with their physical bodies and rebuilt their digitalized minds into a society within the cyber universe of “DEVA.”
A.D. 2400, DEVA’s central council detects an incident of unauthorized access into their mainframe. Someone on Earth was trying to hack into the system. The only information DEVA was able to retrieve was that the hacker referred to themselves as “Frontier Setter.”
To investigate the mysterious hacker’s motives, the high officials of DEVA dispatch System Security Third Officer Angela Balzacto the Earth’s surface. Equipped with a prosthetic “material body,” Angela attempts to make contact with a local agent Dingo, but what awaited her instead was a swarm of Sandworms now infesting the Earth’s surface. Angela intercepts the gruesome pests with her exoskeletal powered suit Arhan.
Will Angela and Dingo be able to find Frontier Setter on this devastated planet?
Their journey to explore the secrets of the world will begin now…!
