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Multiple Home Editions of Dan Da Dan Will Be Released in the U.K. on Monday

On Monday November 17, Anime Limited will release the first season of Dan Da Dan in multiple home editions. There will be two Collector's Editions. An "Alien Edition" will be exclusive to the AllTheAnime website. and is pictured left. The materials in the slipcase will let it glow in the dark, with a protective O-card over it.

The "Yokai Edition" will be available across different retailers and is pictured right. It also has a "glow in the dark finish" and rigid slipcase.

Extras in both the "Alien" and "Yokai" editions will include an A3 reversible poster, a sticker sheet and a 32-page booklet. On-disc extras will include an interview with the series creators, a director scene breakdown, commemorative interviews, and an interview with the composer kensuke ushio.

HMV will have its own exclusive standard edition, pictured right (the HMV sticker is removable). There will also be a non-HMV standard edition. Both will have the on-disc extras listed above, but not the physical extras.

Crunchyroll will release multiple edition of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 1 Part 2, carrying episodes 17 to 28. A Limited Blu-ray/DVD combo edition (pictured left) will include an art book, three art cards, an acrylic standee, a flower luggage tag, seven kiss-cut sticker sheets and seven Shikishis.

There will also be standard Blu-ray and DVD editions. The volume is described as follows:

"Frieren and Fern take a magic exam in order to enter the Northern Plateau. Not only is the test notorious for killing more people than it passes, it requires the one thing that can defeat even the most powerful elf: teamwork. May the era of humans begin."

Anime Limited will also release the first 13-part season of Call of the Night. Viz Media licensed the Call of the Night manga, and it describes the manga:

Nanakusa is a vampire. That's okay with human Ko. He wants to be one too. But transformation doesn't come that easily...

When Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he's stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck with a little too much bite to them... Is it just the delicious taste of his blood that makes her meet him night after night for late-night adventures, conversation and...naps? Or something else? Then, when a cute girl from Yamori's past shows up and competes for his attention, his budding relationship with the undead is put to the test!

Tomoyuki Itamura (Monogatari series) directed the anime at LIDEN FILMS with Tetsuya Miyanishi (Josee, The Tiger and the Fish) was the chief director. Michiko Yokote (Bleach, Shirobako, Prison School, Cowboy Bebop) wrote the scripts. Haruka Sagawa (Happy-Go-Lucky Days) designed the characters. Creepy Nuts performed the theme song "Yofukashi no Uta" (Call of the Night).

Crunchyroll will release a Blu-ray edition of Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf. Broadcast in 2024, it is a new version of the story of Kraft Lawrence and his meeting with the wolf girl Holo. Jun Fukuyama is returning as Kraft Lawrence, and Ami Koshimizu is returning as Holo. It is based on the light novels by Hasekura, with illustrations by Jū Ayakura, which begain in 2006 and inspired a previous anime series, Spice & Wolf, shown in 2008-9.

Takeo Takahashi is returning to the franchise, this time as chief director. Hijiri Sanpei (Spice and Wolf II episode director) is directing the anime at studio Passione. Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss, Tower of God, The Rising of The Shield Hero) is composing the music. ENISHIYA is producing the series.

Yen Press publishes the novels in English, and it describes the series:

The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine—that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests in the countryside and strikes up a bargain with the merchant to lend him the cunning of “Holo the Wisewolf” to increase his profits in exchange for taking her along on his travels. What kind of businessman could turn down such an offer? Lawrence soon learns, though, that having an ancient goddess as a traveling companion can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Will this wolf girl turn out to be too wild to tame?

MVM will release a Blu-ray of Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero. Seven Seas licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

Ten years ago, the hero Max defeated the Demon Lord. In order to regain his power, the Demon Lord went into a deep slumber...but when he awakens, his body is only a chibi version of its fearsome form. Now curious to see what his enemy is up to, the Demon Lord visits Max, only to discover the mighty hero living in a dirty one-room apartment. The Demon Lord decides to move in with Max and help his old enemy become a formidable opponent once more!

Keisuke Inoue (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! both seasons, Ao-chan Can't Study!) directed the anime at studios SILVER LINK and BLADE. Toshiya Ono (Land of the Lustrous, The Promised Neverland, Shadows House) oversaw the series scripts and Yoshihiro Watanabe (Iwa-Kakeru! -Sport Climbing Girls-, The Testament of Sister New Devil) designed the characters. R.O.N (FLCL Alternative, The Slime Diaries, Kuroko's Basketball) composed the music.