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Dead Mount Death Play U.K. Blu-ray Released on Monday

On Monday June 17, Crunchyroll will release the first volume of Dead Mount Death Play on Blu-ray, carrying the first 12 episodes of the series. Yen Press publishes the manga in English and describes the story:

"It's a showdown for the ages as the legendary hero takes on the corpse god necromancer, but when the dust settles, something isn't quite right... In the final moments of their epic confrontation, the corpse god's final gambit shot was wholly unexpected -- reincarnation magic! Across space and time, a boy named Polka Shinoyama awakens feeling...not quite himself...... Who could've expected that the climactic battle between good and evil would turn out like this?"

Manabu Ono (Sword Art Online: Alicization, Saki, Sakura Wars the Animation) directed the anime, and also supervised the series' scripts while penning them alongside Yukie Sugawara (Overlord, The Vampire Dies in No Time) and Yoriko Tomita (My Dress-Up Darling, As Miss Beelzebub likes it.). Takaharu Ōkuma (Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater) was credited as "sub-director," while Yoshiki Kitai was credited as the assistant director. GEEK TOYS animated the series.

Crunchyroll will also release the 12-part series A Galaxy Next Door on Blu-ray. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it airs, and it describes the story:

"Ever since their father died, Ichirou Kuga has struggled to support his two younger siblings on nothing but a small inheritance and his passion for drawing manga. A Galaxy Next Door, tells the story of what happens when Kuga's new mysterious assistant, Shiori Goshiki, declares them to be engaged to be married."

Ryuichi Kimura (Aikatsu! Kemono Friends 2) directed the anime at Asahi Production, and Gigaemon Ichikawa (Chikasugi Idol Akae-chan, The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made, Kedama no Gonjiro) was in charge of the series scripts. Yasuka Ōtaki designed the characters.

Crunchyroll will also release Season 3 Part 1 of Dr. Stone, subtitled "New World," on Blu-ray and DVD. It carries the first eleven episodes of the third season

Anime Limited will release a 4K UHD Blu-ray of the second half of Hayao Miyazaki's 1978 series Future Boy Conan, carrying episodes 14 to 26 of the series.

Anime Limited is also releasing multiple titles as standard Blu-rays. They include Kids on the Slope, Shinichiro Watanabe's drama about two boy musicians in 1960s, originally broadcast in 2012, and Mobile Fighter G Gundam part 1, which carries the opening 24 episodes of the series.

Anime Limited is also releasing standard Blu-rays of Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, carrying the first 25 episodes of the series; and the feature film Patlabor WXIII, directed by Fumihiko Takayama and released in 2001: it involves a giant man-eating monster lurking in Tokyo Bay.