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AnimEigo Ships Metal Skin Panic Madox-01 Anime on Blu-ray Disc on September 16

The release features reauthored content and includes bonus features such as two director commentary tracks, cast interviews, a featurette showcasing Japan Self-Defense Force military vehicles, and others.

The company describes the story:

In the first test of a revolutionary personal battle-suit, the MADOX-01, Ace female test-pilot Kusumoto Elle smashes an attacking tank force and humiliates Lt. Kilgore, Japan's most-macho tank-jockey, in the process. Kilgore swears he'll get even, and he gets his chance when the prototype MADOX literally falls off the back of a truck in the middle of Tokyo.

Meanwhile, the MADOX, which fell off the back of one truck, off a bridge, and into the back of another truck, has found its way into the hands of college student Sugimoto

Kōji. Intrigued by the MADOX, Kōji makes the big mistake of fooling with it without reading the manual first and soon finds himself locked in the suit and zooming around downtown Tokyo.

Unfortunately, the homing signal the now-active MADOX transmits results in a no-holds-barred response by Kilgore; even more unfortunately, even though Kōji doesn't know how to fight, the MADOX does a pretty good job on automatic (it's got "Full Self Driving" capability), resulting in a firefight the likes of which the local residents haven't seen since the last time Godzilla hit town.

Concerned about the property damage being caused to some of the world's most expensive real estate, Elle dons a second prototype MADOX and tries to find and rescue Kōji before Kilgore's many minions totally trash Tokyo. And apart from the attempts to destroy the suit (and its driver), Kōji has his own problems: if he breaks his date with his girlfriend, he will lose her forever -- and he's a tad overdressed for the occasion!

Will Kōji be late for his date? Or will Kilgore make him "the late Kōji?" And more importantly, is it even possible to eat convenience store shrimp in a battlesuit? The answers to these and many other questions await fans in the 41 action-packed minutes of Metal Skin Panic: MADOX-01!

AnimEigo ran a successful Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign in 2021 to release the OVA on Blu-ray Disc.

The Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 anime premiered in December 1987. The OVA was AnimEigo's first anime release in 1990. RetroCrush is streaming the anime. WWWave Corporation's new anime streaming platform OceanVeil added the OVA to its streaming library in May.

Source: Press release