Rumic World Short Movies to Hit DVD
Japanese film distributor Pony Canyon has announced a January 29, 2010 release for a limited edition “It’s a Rumic World Special Anime Box” DVD collection. The 19,950 yen collection will include the Urusei Yatsura: Shougaibutsu Suieitaikai (Obstacle Course Swim Meet), Ranma ½: Okumu! Shunmin Kou (Nightmare! Incense of Deep Sleep), and Inuyasha: Kuroi Tetsusaiga (Black Tetsusaiga) 30 minute movies, the original opening animation clip, a 32 page booklet, and 12cm figures of Lum, female Ranma, and Inuyasha.
The films were exclusively screened during the “It’s a Rumic World” art exhibit held in Tokyo’s Ginza district from July 30 – August 11, 2008.
Source: Animate.tv
July 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Hopefully this will inspire Viz (or anyone) to license this and get it over here. It has Inuyasha in it, which is almost like printing money for them.
July 28th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
It’d be nice if they put out those CPM OVAs on DVD….
July 28th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
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July 28th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
This must become licensed over here. I’ll buy it just to see Akane beating the snot out of Ranma while sound asleep.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:52 am
BAH. I’m still waiting for the Urusei Yatsura manga to be properly licensed (as it SHOULD be)… This is exciting to see new animation, but I still want the manga!
July 29th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
It’s licensed. Viz just doesn’t want it to fail again. Of course, if they re-released it in those $10 editions, it might at least do as well as Maison Ikkoku and One Pound Gospel.
July 29th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Holy crap, Ataru’s in there! ;-; I missed you, man. Strange that there are no Maison Ikkoku cameos, though.
July 29th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I didn’t know Onna-Ranma could do a super-saiyan attack later in the series. It kind of defeats the whole purpose of her training, though, since she’s supposed to be about hand-to-hand combat.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Regrettably, the original Rumic World OVAs have not been released on DVD even in Japan, which is odd considering that Mermaid’s Scar got a TV series that is on DVD, and One Pound Gospel got a live action TV series just a few years ago.