Source: Section23 Films press release
Special Thanks to Mike Bailiff
Home video label Sentai Filmworks today announced its October slate of releases.
Product details follow, in order of release...
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IMMORAL GUILD
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Distribution Solution
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 10/3/2023
Format: BD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
Protecting the land from monsters is a noble profession, but Kikuru wants to retire from the Guild and explore other options while he's still young. Before he can ride off into the sunset, however, he'll have to find acceptable replacements to care for the Guild in his absence.
Lucky for him, four new recruits just turned in their applications! The catch? They're all young women, and the local monster population has been developing some VERY disturbing new appetites when it comes to female adventurers.
Now Kikuru must guide Hitamuki, Maidena, Toxico and Hanabata through one sticky situation after another as he tries to leave the IMMORAL GUILD!
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THE EMINENCE IN SHADOW SEASON 1
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Distribution Solution
Run Time: 500 min.
Street Date: 10/10/2023
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $89.98
Cid doesn't want to be a flashy hero or a dastardly villain. He wants to operate in the shadows and pull the strings of society through wit and cleverness. So, when he's isekai'd to another world armed with magic powers (and an overactive imagination), he forms Shadow Garden, an underground organization that fights an evil cult he totally made up.
But while Cid happily roleplays his favorite antihero tropes, little does he know Shadow Garden's recruits treat his every lie as gospel, and worse yet? That "fake" cult is actually real, and they're not happy his power fantasy just impeded their plan to gain ultimate power in THE EMINENCE IN SHADOW!
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LOVE, CHUNIBYO & OTHER DELUSIONS
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Distribution Solution
Run Time: 840 min.
Street Date: 10/10/2023
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $99.98
Some people hate standing out from the crowd. Others are desperate to, sometimes even living inside a fantasy of their own making where they have secret knowledge and hidden powers.
This is "chunibyo", a condition that Yuta Togashi lived with for several years. But he's done with that now and would be looking forward to his first year in high school… Except the girl who lives above him is still a chuni and believes that Yuta's her soul mate!
And when Yuta's previous "one true soul mate" comes back into his life with her own chuni version of reality, Yuta may just have to surrender to the inevitable in the complete mind-twisting, multi-series collection of LOVE, CHUNIBYO, AND OTHER DELUSIONS!
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CHIHAYAFURU S3 PREMIUM BOX SET
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Distribution Solution
Run Time: 600 min.
Street Date: 10/17/2023
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $179.98
Chihaya Ayase's obsession with the card game Karuta has already begun to bear fruit, and the fledgling Mizusawa High School competitive team that she helped form has stunned the karuta playing community by winning the national high school team tournament.
That's just the beginning for Chihaya, however, and now the young card mistress has set her sights on an even more impossible task: taking on grand master Wakamiya Shinobu and wresting the title of Queen away for herself. As difficult as everything has been before, it will seem easy compared to the task now ahead of her, and her teammates look to be equally challenged, especially Taichi Mashima, who's finally made it to Class A.
Has he finally learned enough to challenge Arata Wataya? Only the cards know the future as Chihaya and Crew hit the decks in CHIHAYAFURU 3!
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BLADE & SOUL
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Distribution Solution
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 10/24/2023
Format: BD
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98
She was trained to be the Clan of the Sword's ultimate assassin, but the Clan is destroyed and only she remains.
Now, even though there is a price on her own head, Alka must honor the Code by which she was raised. Her clan will be avenged.
No matter how mighty the armies of the Param Empire and the demonic powers of their battle leader Jin Valel may seem, no matter how many assassins and bounty hunters they send to vanquish her, nothing will stop the emotionless killing machine they have unleashed upon themselves. For this is her final mission and she will cut that path of wrath through their screaming flesh in BLADE & SOUL!
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PHANTOM OF THE IDOL
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Distribution Solution
Run Time: 250 min.
Street Date: 10/31/2023
Format: BD
Language: English & Japanese with English & Spanish Subtitles
SRP: $69.98
Asahi loved performing so much that she still haunts her old talent agency… even after she died in an accident!
Yuya, meanwhile, only became an Idol for the money, and practically sleepwalks through his performances. Just when he's about to be fired, Yuya encounters Asahi's ghost and they realize that they're the solutions to each other's problems: Asahi can possess Yuya's body when he's onstage!
Sure, the fact that she was a girl and he's not does make things a bit strange, and no one knows what to make of Yuya's "spirited" new performing style. Still, this IS showbiz and if the fans are happy, that's all that matters to the PHANTOM OF THE IDOL!
About Sentai Filmworks
Since 2008, Sentai has been licensing, localizing, and investing in our Japanese counterparts to ensure that anime and other Japanese content becomes more accessible globally throughout multiple mediums such as streaming, television broadcasts, home videos, theatricals, and digital distributions.