Discotek Media has hit Facebook today with several new updates that have a few noteworthy acquisitions for old school anime fans. The company has dabbled in the realm of license rescues again as they’ve grabbed two series that Media Blasters put out previously with Gun Frontier and Cosmo Warrior Zero as well as some Bandai Entertainment releases with Eat-Man and Eat-Man ’98.
Galaxy Railways OVA: January 2017 – DVD – Japanese with English subtitles – Blu-ray coming later
See out recent coverage of this acquisition here.
Eat-Man: December 6th, 2017 – DVD – Japanese with English subtitles
Meet Bolt Crank, mercenary extraordinaire, and the man who eats metal! Through his travels, he stops along the way to make a few bucks and occasionally rescue damsels in distress. His taste for metal gives him quite an edge as he becomes capable of generating an assortment of weapons from his hand! It’s a strange ability, but it seems to come in handy, so to speak. Bolt has an edge over his adversaries, but will that be enough?
Eat-Man ’98: January 2017 – DVD – Japanese with English subtitles
The continuing adventures of Bolt Crank, the World’s Greatest Mercenary, who has the ability to eat any object, mostly metal and weapons. When the time comes, Bolt can then reproduce those weapons and items in his right hand.
Gun Frontier: December 20th, 2017 – DVD – Japanese with English Subtitles, English Language Dub
It is a harsh and barren wasteland, where the weak aren’t allowed to dream. It is also a sacred land for true men, for there is no place a man can feel more alive. This is the Gun Frontier. Sea Pirate Captain Harlock and the errant samurai, Tochiro arrive in the United States on the Western Frontier. Along with a mysterious woman they meet along the way, the two friends challenge sex rings, bandits, and corrupt sheriff. They are searching for a lost clan of Japanese immigrants, and they will tear Gun Frontier from end to end until they find it.
Cosmo Warrior Zero: December 20th, 2016 – DVD – Japanese with English Subtitles, English Language Dub
The long war between the planet Earth and the machine men is finally over, resulting in a peace that is more a victory for the machine men than the Earth. Warrius Zero lost his family in the war to the machine men but despite this he is still is a member of the Earth fleet that is now working in concert with the machine men. His ship, made up of both humans and machine men, has been given a near impossible task: capture the space pirate Captain Harlock. While Zero struggles to accomplish this task, evidence begins to surface that the peace between machine men and Earth may not be as it seems…
