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Cyber City Oedo 808 Released Monday
posted on by Andrew Osmond
On Monday January 18, Anime Limited will release a Collectors Blu-ray edition of Cyber City Oedo 808. It will include a soundtrack CD carrying the UK soundtrack by Rory McFarlane; a 52-page booklet; and the documentary "Inside Cyber City Oedo."
Discotek has described the anime:
"The year is 2808. The place: Oedo, a cybernetic megalopolis of the future where the dreams of a brighter tomorrow are drowning in a tide of violence, vice, and villainy. Driven to breaking point, the forces of law and order are left with no choice but to use the very criminals they capture to help hunt their own kind.
"Enter hardened cybercriminals Sengoku, Gogul, and Benten. Presented by police chief Hasegawa with a stark choice, they must decide to either rot in jail for the rest of their lives, or join a special force of the Cyber Police and possibly get one more chance at freedom. With their less than subtle blend of extreme violence and excessive swearing, some hard justice is coming to Oedo.
"With each criminal apprehended and each successful mission completed, the state will agree to reduce their sentences. But with each of them serving a 300-year stretch, and Hasegawa keeping them in line with explosive collars, will they survive long enough to be free men once again?"
Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Wicked City) directed the three-episode OVA, which debuted in 1990.
MVM will release a Collector's Blu-ray edition of the 24-part series Real Girl. It will include a 56-page art book and four art cards.
The josei manga follows Hikari "Tsuttsun" Tsutsui, a high school boy who is satisfied with the virtual girls he encounters in anime and games. He does not have many friends and he lives in his own world. One day, when he is stuck on pool cleaning duty, he is approached by Iroha, a "real girl" who is showy and popular with boys.
Takashi Naoya (Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru) directed the anime at Hoods Entertainment (If Her Flag Breaks, Drifters, Märchen Mädchen). Deko Akao (Flying Witch, Noragami, After the Rain) was in charge of series composition. Satomi Kurita (Hina Logic - from Luck & Logic) designed the characters.
The romantic comedy manga ran in Kodansha's Dessert magazine from July 2011 to May 2016, and Kodansha published the series in 12 compiled volumes. The manga has 1.2 million copies in print. Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga digitally in English.
Anime Limited will also release a Collector's Blu-ray of ERASED, carrying the complete 12-part series.
