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Tsurune Collector's Blu-ray Released on Monday

On Monday November 13, MVM will release a Collector's Blu-ray edition of the Kyoto Animation archery series Tsurune, It will contain the 14-part first season, as well as an 88-page booklet and five art cards.

This is the television anime of Kotoko Ayano's Tsurune: Kazemai Kōkō Kyūdō-bu (Tsurune: Kazemai High School's Archery Club) novel. MVM summarised the story:

"Becoming a great archer requires more than just a steady hand and a good eye. It takes focus; the ability to find exactly the right moment to release the bowstring and send your arrow streaking to its target. As a child, Minato Narumiya became entranced with kyudo, the Japanese art of archery, but after years of study, he suddenly quit after an incident during a middle school tournament. Now, his high school's Kyudo Club has approached him, and between the encouragement of the coach and several classmates he used to practice with, Minato is reluctantly convinced to pick up the bow again."

Takuya Yamamura (Violet Evergarden episodes 7 and 12 director, Sound! Euphonium episodes 3 and 10 director) directed the anime as his series directorial debut, while Michiko Yokote (Shirobako, Children of the Whales, Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san) was in charge of series scripts. Miku Kadowaki (Beyond the Boundary, Amagi Brilliant Park, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid) designed the characters. Harumi Fuuki (Miss Hokusai, The Piano Forest) composed the music. Lantis was credited for music production. The first novel received a Special Judge Award in the novel category at the 7th Kyoto Animation Awards in 2016.

Anime Limited will release a standard Blu-ray edition of "Deji" Meets Girl. This is a short film, around 20 minutes long, which was previously screened in 90-second segments on the "Super Animeism" anime block on MBS, TBS, and other stations.

The story begins one summer when Maise Higa, a listless first-year high school girl who works part-time at the front desk of her family's hotel in Okinawa, meets an "Ichirō Suzuki," a mysterious youth who came alone from Tokyo as a hotel guest. Since Suzuki's arrival, "dëji" things happen around Maise, like fish swimming around the room or a giant banyan tree smashing through the hotel ceiling. ("Dëji" is an Okinawan word that means "totally" or "very.")

Ushio Tazawa (chief animation director for Makoto Shinkai works such as The Place Promised in Our Early Days) directed the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Tazawa also adapted the original characters designs by series script supervisor and Okinawan illustrator Akane Malbeni (Side-By-Side Dreamers, DAOKO's CD jacket art and music video character designs) for animation.

Anime Limited will also release a standard Blu-ray edition of Hideaki Anno's 1988 space adventure Gunbuster.