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Media Blasters Launches Anime DVD/Blu-ray Kiosks

The North American anime company Media Blasters has announced on Thursday that it is launching a series of home video rental kiosks branded with its Rareflix online store logo and featuring primarily anime DVDs and Blu-ray Disc releases. Users can rent television series and films, in their original packaging, for US$1 to US$2. If the users want to keep their rentals instead of returning it, they can then purchase the rented discs outright on Media Blasters' website.

According to the announcement, the kiosks feature titles "from all U.S. anime companies," and the kiosks' official website lists titles from Bandai Entertainment, Funimation, Viz Media, Sentai Filmworks, Disney, and Sony Pictures. Among the titles listed are several films by Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki, as well as several by the late director Satoshi Kon.

The first of these kiosks is already open in New York City at the Image Anime store at 242 West 30th Street. The company intends to roll out another 100 kiosks throughout the United States over the next 18 months.

What follows is a full list of the titles shown as available on the kiosk's official website:

• Ah! My Goddess, Season 2: Flights of Fancy volume 3
• Air: The Movie
• Akira
• Angel Sanctuary
• Appleseed
• Basilisk: The Complete Series
• Blade of the Immortal volumes 1-3
• Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion
• Castle in the Sky
• Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 Parts 1-4
• Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• Night Warriors - Darkstalkers' Revenge volume 2
• Death Note: The Last Name
• Death Note Re-Light volume 1
• Devil Hunter Yohko: Complete
• Doujin Work volumes 1-3
• Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season 1, Part 1
• Eiken volumes 1 & 2
• Elf Princess Rane
• Escaflowne: The Movie
• Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
• FLCL
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood volume 1
• Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa
• GaoGaiGar: King of Braves seasons 1-2
• Genshiken volumes 1-3
• Genshiken 2 volumes 1-3
• Geobreeders
• Geobreeders: Breakthrough
• Ghost in the Shell
• Giant Robo: The Complete Collection
• Gokusen volumes 1-3
• Golden Boy
• Green Green Complete
• Grenadier: The Complete Collection
• GTO: The Movie
• Gurren-Lagann volume 1
• Hell Girl
• Hellsing volumes 1-4
• Ikki Tousen
• Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny volumes 1-2
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure volumes 1-6
• Kanokon volume 1
• Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~ volumes 1-3
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Kite
• Kite Liberator
• Kujibiki Unbalance volumes 1-3
• Le Portrait de Petit Cossette
• Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star Story
• Loveless
• Macross Plus volumes 1-2
• Macross Plus: Movie Edition
• Magical Witch Punie-chan
• Mezzo volumes 1-3
• Midori Days Collection
• Millennium Actress
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Complete Collection
• Mouse volumes 1-2
• Mouse Complete Collection
• Mushi-Shi
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
• Ninja Resurrection
• Noir volumes 1-2
• One Piece: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventure in Alabasta
• Otoboku - Maidens Are Falling for Me! volumes 1-3
• Patlabor volume 1
• Patlabor 2: The Movie
• Perfect Blue
• Pet Shop of Horrors
• Ponyo DVD
• Ponyo Blu-ray
• Princess Mononoke
• Princess Resurrection: Collections 1-2
• Ramen Fighter Miki volumes 1-3
• RIN - Daughters of Mnemosyne: The Complete Series
• Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles: The Movie
• Rurouni Kenshin volumes 7-14
• Samurai X: Reflection
• The Sky Crawlers
• Soul Eater Part 1
• To Love-Ru Collections 1-2
• Tokyo Godfathers
• Tweeny Witches: Core Collection
• Tweeny Witches: The Adventures
• Twelve Kingdoms volume 1
• Vampire Knight volume 1
• Vampire Princess Miyu volumes 1-2
• Vampire Princess Miyu TV volume 1
• Voices of a Distant Star
• Whisper of the Heart
• X
• Yozakura Quartet: Complete Collection

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