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AnimEigo Kickstarter project for Otaku no Video starts on 2nd June

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American anime distributor AnimEigo has announced it will launch a Kickstarter project to fund a Blu-Ray English release of comedy anime Otaku no Video at 10am EDT (3pm BST) on 2nd June.

AnimEigo hopes to release an English-subtitled Blu-Ray version of the two-part OVA as part of its 25th anniversary in 2016. It will not be region coded, meaning the release can be shipped out to anywhere except Japan. While the anime has not been released in the UK, it has been released on video cassette and DVD in the past by AnimEigo. The project’s goal is $40,000. 

Amongst the extras on the Blu-Ray they will include four subtitled commentaries (two for each episode). Extras for funding the project range from art books, embroidered patches, artwork upgrades, a dojinshi by the anime’s character designer Kenichi Sonoda, and subtitles in Klingon.

In the past AnimEigo has successfully crowdfunded a Blu-Ray release of Bubblegum Crisis back in 2013. 

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Ian Wolf

Ian works as an anime and manga critic for Anime UK News, and was also the manga critic for MyM Magazine. His debut book, CLAMPdown, about the manga collective CLAMP, is available now. Outside of anime, he is data specialist for the British Comedy Guide, is QI's most pedantic viewer, has written questions for both The Wall and Richard Osman's House of Games, and has been a contestant on Mastermind.

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