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U.K. Home Editions of My Hero Academia: You're Next Will Be Released on Monday

On Monday November 24, Crunchyroll will release the film My Hero Academia: You're Next as a Steelbook Blu-ray (pictured) as well as standard Blu-ray and DVD editions. The film is described as follows:

"Izuku Midoriya, a U.A. High School student who aspires to be the best hero he can be, confronts the villain who imitates the hero he once admired. Deku, Bakugo, Todoroki and the rest of U.A. High Class 1-A must face off against Dark Might and the obscure crime organization under his control, the Gollini Family."

Tensai Okamura (Darker than Black) directed the film at BONES. Returning staff members from the television series and previous films include scriptwriter Yōsuke Kuroda, character designer Yoshihiko Umakoshi, and composer Yūki Hayashi. Vaundy performs the film's theme song "Homunculus" and the ending theme song "Gift." Original manga creator Horikoshi served as the general supervisor and original character designer.

Crunchyroll will release a Steelbook Blu-ray edition of Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition. The 13-part series is the television anime version of Studio 4°C's Berserk: The Golden Age Arc film trilogy, which consisted of Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II - The Battle for Doldrey and Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent. The films were based in turn on the Berserk manga by Kentarō Miura.

The Memorial Edition is described as follows:

"When lone swordsman Guts loses a duel to the leader of a band of mercenaries, he's forced to join their ranks. But as the brutal warrior helps his leader attain his dreams, he begins to question his own purpose in life, unaware a dreadful fate awaits."

Crunchyroll will release a Blu-ray edition of the 13-part series I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History. The story follows a girl named Alicia who hates "goody-two-shoes" heroines. Her wishes come true when she is reincarnated into a villainess in her favorite otome games. She strives to be the world's most evil villainess in history. However, the more she tries to be a villainess, the more the prince appears to like her.

Yūji Yanase (By the Grace of the Gods, In the Land of Leadale) directed the anime at Maho Film, and Sawako Hirabayashi (Delicious Party♡Precure, Wolf Girl & Black Prince) was in charge of the series scripts. Yūko Watabe (Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp) and Eri Kojima (I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss) were the main character designers. Moe Hyūga (The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Steins;Gate 0) composed the music.

Liyuu performed the opening theme song "Baddududu" and Rin Kurusu performed the ending theme song "Wacchu Ane?."

Ō̄kido debuted the series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Become Novelists) website in December 2018. О̄kido launched the light novel series with illustrator Jyun Hayase in 2020. Akari Hoshi launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's B's-LOG COMIC in September 2020.