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U.K. Collector's Blu-rays of Solo Leveling and Bubblegum Crisis Released on Monday

On Monday July 21, Crunchyroll will release the first 12-part season of Solo Leveling, both as a standard Blu-ray and as a Collector's Blu-ray/DVD. The Collector's Blu-ray (pictured) will include a 68-page art book, four art cards and a sticker sheet. There will also be a standard Blu-ray edition.

Crunchyroll has described the story:

It's been over a decade since the sudden appearance of the "gates"—the paths that connect our world with a different dimension. Since then, certain humans have awakened to supernatural powers. We call these individuals "hunters." Hunters make their living by using their powers to conquer dungeons inside the gates. In this world of tough customers, the low-ranked hunter Jinwoo Sung is known as "the weakest hunter of all mankind." One day, Jinwoo gets fatally injured when he runs into high-rank double dungeons hidden within a low-rank dungeon. Just then, a mysterious quest window appears in front of him. On the verge of death, Jinwoo decides to accept the quest and starts leveling up... while the others aren't.

Shunsuke Nakashige (Mother of the Goddess' Dormitory) directed the anime series at A-1 Pictures, and Noboru Kimura (Gundam Build Divers, Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!) was the head writer. Tomoko Sudo (Alice in Borderland, Fragtime) designed the characters, and Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist, Kill la Kill, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) composed the music.

The manhwa adaptation of Chugong's Solo Leveling novel series, with illustrations by DUBU launched on WEBTOON services in March 2018 and ended in December 2021. Yen Press publishes the manhwa and original novel series in English.

Kadokawa publishes the manhwa in Japanese under the title Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken (I'm the Only One Who Has Leveled Up).

MVM will release a Collector's Blu-ray of the 1987-1991 OVA series of Bubblegum Crisis. It includes a 50-page booklet, and is described by MVM as "a brand new special edition two-disc set, featuring lossless audio, new packaging, and a full array of bonus features and international dubs."

MVM describes the story:

"Welcome to Mega Tokyo's Tinsel City - a part of town where most struggle to survive while global conglomerates thrive. However, this fragile city of the future has another problem that's just about to blow up. MegaTokyo's finest are being wiped out by an escalating series of attacks perpetrated by Boomers - mechanized automatons born to kill. With no one else up to the task of recycling these mad machines, there's only one crew left to turn to: the Knight Sabers. But just as this power armor-clad quartet starts fighting back, they get a whiff of something that stinks - a stench that leads right to the Genom Corporation's doorstep."