Sentai Filmworks is lining up their releases for July and the big title is definitely going to be Cutie Honey Universe. It’s got a bilingual regular edition in the works as well as a big premium edition that will be detailed. This month also has the debut of the Love Stage!! series with a dub! On the SDBD side, we’re getting a release of Pet Shop of Horrors as well as a two-season set for Those Who Hunt Elves.
Title: THOSE WHO HUNT ELVES BLU-RAY
- Published by: Sentai Filmworks
- Distributed by: Section23 Films
- Run Time: 600 min.
- Street Date: 7/2/2019
- Format: BD
- Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
- SRP: $49.98
SYNOPSIS: When an unlikely trio of humans find themselves transported to a world populated by elves and other mystical beings, all they want to do is go home. Fortunately, the sorceress Celsia has a spell that can send them back! Unfortunately, things go horribly wrong and the spell is scattered to the winds, with different parts attaching like tattoos to the bodies of elves across the entire planet! Now, the only way to put it back together is for strongman Junpei, actress Airi and teenage gun-fanatic Ritsuko to travel around the world in a T-74 tank, convincing random elves to strip down for a “spell check”! Get ready for the weirdest, most un-PC road trip ever as the tank treads hit the road and the elf-clothes go a-flying in THOSE WHO HUNT ELVES!
Title: PET SHOP OF HORRORS BLU-RAY
- Published by: Sentai Filmworks
- Distributed by: Section23 Films
- Run Time: 100 min.
- Street Date: 7/9/2019
- Format: BD
- Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
- SRP: $19.98
SYNOPSIS: Are you seeking something unusual in a pet to fill an empty space in your heart? Then venture, if you dare, into a strange little pet shop in Chinatown, where the mysterious proprietor knows your every need and desire. But watch out. When you buy from Count D, what you get may be what he thinks you deserve rather than what you want. So even if that rare rabbit does somehow look just like your lost child, perhaps you’d be safer shopping somewhere else. That’s certainly what Detective Orcot of the LAPD would advise, as nightmarish things seem to keep happening to the shop’s customers. Unfortunately, there’s never been quite enough evidence to implicate the Count. And until there is, business will continue to boom at the PET SHOP OF HORRORS.
Title: CUTIE HONEY UNIVERSE
- Published by: Sentai Filmworks
- Distributed by: Section23 Films
- Run Time: 300 min.
- Street Date: 7/23/2019
- Format: BD, PBS
- Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
- SRP: $69.98, $129.98
SYNOPSIS: The girls at Saint Chapel Academy all think Honey Kisaragi is just another sweet, kind and incredibly beautiful girl, but what they don’t know is that Honey is actually the world’s most advanced android, with the capability to transform her lovely body into multiple forms with their own special abilities! Unfortunately the evil Sister Jill, head of the sinister organization Panther Claw, knows Honey’s secret, and the malevolent mistress of mayhem will stop at nothing in her attempts to capture Honey and use her body for her own twisted purposes. With Jill’s army of half-human hotties on one side and Honey and her stalwart allies at the PCIS (Panther Claw Criminal Investigation Service) on the other, it’s going to be the wildest, sexiest battle ever! Watch out evildoers! The original magical girl is back in CUTIE HONEY UNIVERSE!
Title: LOVE STAGE BLU-RAY
- Published by: Sentai Filmworks
- Distributed by: Section23 Films
- Run Time: 275 min.
- Street Date: 7/30/2019
- Format: BD
- Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
- SRP: $69.98
SYNOPSIS: As a child actor, Izumi Sena was following the rest of his family into the entertainment business until he quit after a humiliating incident while shooting a certain commercial. Now, ten years later, Izumi’s trying to juggle college and becoming a manga author, but nothing seems to be working out for him. Until he’s asked to reprise his part in that infamous commercial opposite one of Japan’s most popular up-and-coming actors! Which wouldn’t be so bad… except for the fact that Izumi was dressed as young girl in the ad, and everyone, including his infatuated potential co-star Ryoma Ichijo, still thinks that he’s a she! Is Izumi going to have to kiss a guy and will he like it? And what will Ryoma think when the girl of his dreams turns out to be a guy in jeans? Get ready for a tale of crossed stars and shifting alignments as a completely unexpected drama unfolds in prime time across the LOVE STAGE!!
