Bento Box - Area 88 TV / Cromartie High School / Get Backers / Gilgamesh (DVD-R2)

Release date: 2006-10-18
Suggested retail price: $5.99
Age rating: 15

SKU: DBB-001
UPC: 702727158223 702727158223

Description:
TRY 4 NEW SERIES FOR 1 LOW PRICE WITH OUR ANIME BENTO BOX!

ADV Films, the leading producer-distributor of anime in the U.K., bring you a new concept in ‘taster’ discs - ADV’s Anime Bento Box! 4 courses of pure anime goodness, all for the incredibly low RRP of £5.99! That’s a third of the full RRP for a regular volume of anime - making it more of a ‘tasty’ disc, we think! The cheapest way to boost your anime collection today!

What’s in your Bento Box:

Area 88 - Episode 1
Top Gun goes anime! Mercenary pilots battle in the Middle East for cash bounties - but everyone’s past catches up with them sooner or later… From the classic manga.
“...superb animation and some truly spectacular aerial sequences.” Film Threat

Gilgamesh - Episode 6
“Intriguing … mysterious… a slow-burner” SFX Magazine
“A deliciously mature mystery thriller.” NEO Magazine

Cromartie High School - Episode 9
Idiot delinquents, a robot with an identity crisis, a snorting gorilla, a rock star poser and alien alumni - this is one school special measures can’t save! From the hit manga.
“CAs mad as a box of frogs on LSD. It's also absolutely hilarious …” SFX Magazine

Get Backers - Episode 1
Ban & Ginji - street-cool, super-powered, always broke! - will “get back” anything and everything gone missing - for a price! From the hit manga.
“Get Backers is like a cool buddy cop show without all the ancillary baggage…plus super powers.…” PLAY Magazine (US)

A DVD-only release, 4 episodes from 4 different shows, presented in both English 5.1 and Japanese 2.0 audio with English subtitles. Extras include Glossary of Japanese terms, Series info, and ADV previews.

(added on 2025-05-29, modified on 2025-05-29)
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