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Stock Up on Action and Adventure

It's A Festival In October With Re-Releases And Reduced Prices

NEW YORK, NY (August 15, 2006)  Central Park Media has brewed up many hours of action, adventure and comedy when it re-prices and re-releases four exciting titles on October 24, 2006. The titles include Spirit Warrior DVD Collection – journey with Kujaku, a young demon-slayer, as he sets off to discover his lost past; Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer Collector's Series Edition – the anime classic about a teenage loser and his alien girlfriend guaranteed to be filled with loads of extraterrestrial laughs; Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos: Volume 2 – embark on Rom's quest as he unravels mysteries that will shape the future; and last but not least, The Complete Shamanic Princess – a compelling storyline intertwined with magic and fantasy.

Spirit Warrior DVD Collection will be re-priced at $49.95 SRP, Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer Collector's Series Edition will be re-priced at $19.95 SRP, and Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos: Volume 2 and The Complete Shamanic Princess will be re-priced at just $9.95 SRP each.
The order date will be September 26, 2006 and the street date will be October 24, 2006. All of these releases will contain English and Japanese language with English subtitles.

The Complete Shamanic Princess

From the director of Outlaw Star!

Contains all 6 episodes!

To retrieve the talisman stolen by her beloved, Tiara hunts the night, battling monsters with her awesome shamanic powers!

DVD Features:
Character Profiles, Artist Biography, Trailers, English & Japanese with English Subtitles.

DVD-ROM Features:
Art Gallery, Production & Cast Credits, Character Descriptions, Scripts, Reviews.
Running time: 180 minutes
Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: 13UP
WEA Selection: 752293
SRP: $9.95
UPC: 7-19987-22932-7


Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos: Vol 2

On a quest to save his people from the evil Gandora armies, the young robot Rom travels to an uncharted jungle. There he must unravel the secret of the mysterious Wolf Sword, and unlock his hidden superpowers! Contains episodes 6-10.

DVD Features:
Character Sketches, Fight Moves Montage, Art Gallery, Machine Robo 2 Trailer, Previews, Japanese with English Subtitles.
Running time: 125 minutes
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 3UP
WEA Selection: 436217
SRP: $9.95
UPC: 7-95243-62172-2


Spirit Warrior DVD Collection

From the Director of Metropolis and X: The Movie and the Producers of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and Reign: The Conqueror.

A young demon-slayer with no memory of his past, Kujaku struggles with superpowers beyond his control. To fulfill his destiny, he must face the insane Regent of Darkness, who holds the key to his past!

5-DVD Box Set includes: Revival of Evil, Regent of Darkness, Festival of the Ogres Revival, Castle of Illusion and A Harvest of Cherry Blossoms.

DVD Features:
Art gallery, director's commentary by Rintarō (Disc 1: Revival of Evil and Disc 2: Regent of Darkness), previews, English & Japanese with English Subtitles.
Running time: Approx. 250 minutes
Genre: Action/Adventure/Supernatural
Rating: 16UP
WEA Selection: 752400
SRP: $49.95
UPC: 7-19987-24002-5


Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer Collector's Series Edition

"A triumph"- Underland Online.
"Fun adventure, from the beginning to the end" -AnimeSou.com
"A great anime classic"- AnimeOnDVD.com
"A masterpiece"- Anime Insider.

Collector's Series Edition includes feature-length director's commentary by Mamoru Oshii -Ghost in the Shell!

Ataru was a normal teenage loser until he met the beautiful space princess Lum. Now he's a loser with a superpowered alien girlfriend! Lum's very existence throws the space-time continuum completely out of whack, and the star-crossed couple is trapped in an alternate reality bursting with obnoxious aliens!

DVD Features:
Feature-length director's commentary by Mamoru Oshii, Digitally Remastered Video, Trailers, Art Gallery, English & Japanese with English Subtitles.
Running time: 100 minutes
Genre: Science Fiction/Comedy
Rating: 13UP
WEA Selection: 752431
SRP: $19.95
UPC: 7-19987-24312-5



About Central Park Media
Central Park Media is a 16-year-old Manhattan-based independent video and book publisher focused on Japanese and Korean animation and graphic novels. Central Park Media has been a leading supplier of anime in the United States since 1990, and a major publisher of manga since 1994. The company currently manufactures and distributes animated video programming under several label names, including U.S. Manga Corps, Be Beautiful, Software Sculptors and Central Park Media, as well as live-action Asian feature films under its Asia Pulp Cinema label.

With exclusive rights to hundreds of graphic novels, the company has become a leading North American publisher of Japanese manga and Korean manhwa. Among CPM's fan-favorite graphic novel titles are Lee Hyun Se's Nambul (the best-selling manhwa in Korean publishing history), and Kia Asamiya's Dark Angel. Under its Be Beautiful imprint, the company also publishes popular yaoi manga such as the best-selling Kizuna - Bonds of Love (the best-selling yaoi title in Japanese publishing history). Visit www.centralparkmedia.com, www.cpmpress.com and www.bebeautifulmanga.com for more information.

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