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Anime Limited Will Release Magic Knight Rayearth from July

Anime Limited has announced that it will release the 1994-5 TV series Magic Knight Rayearth on Blu-ray in two parts. Part 1 (pictured right) will be released on July 27, and Part 2 (pictured left) on August 24.

The first set will contain the first 27 episodes. The second set will carry episodes 28 to 49, as well as an extra DVD with the three-part 1997 OVA Rayearth. Both the TV series and the OVA will come with Japanese and English-language options.

Anime Limited describes the story of the TV series, adapted by the CLAMP manga:

"Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji are three regular high school girls. While on a field trip to the Tokyo Tower, the three girls' minds are on anything but different worlds filled with magic and wonder. That is, until Princess Emeraude, the Pillar of Cephiro, cries out for the Magic Knights to save her world – and that just happens to be those three.

"The girls must learn to control the magic they suddenly possess, drive back the monsters that plague the land, revive the Rune Gods that have been sealed away, and then fight against the High Priest Zagato, who has kidnapped Princess Emeraude. It's the only way they can return home, for willpower influences Cephiro, and it is the Princess's will that the three girls become the Magic Knights of legend, and save her world."