{"id":36329,"date":"2017-06-13T12:15:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T16:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animenation.net\/?p=36329"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T16:16:41","slug":"discotek-acquires-hells-kaiba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/discotek-acquires-hells-kaiba\/","title":{"rendered":"DiscoTek Acquires Hells &#038; Kaiba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hells_Kaiba.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hells_Kaiba.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hells_Kaiba.png 610w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hells_Kaiba-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hells_Kaiba-450x288.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m a day late on the news, I&#8217;m still just as excited over DiscoTek&#8217;s acquisition of domestic DVD\/BD release rights to Madhouse&#8217;s 2008 television series <em>Kaiba<\/em> and feature film <em>Hells<\/em> because both are esoteric masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-episode <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madhouse.co.jp\/works\/2008-2007\/works_tv_kaiba.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiba<\/a> television series created &#038; directed by auteur director Masaaki Yuasa (<em>Mind Game<\/em>, <em>Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei<\/em>), may look like a children&#8217;s show but is actually a highly intelligent, especially provocative sci-fi drama for adults. Fans of <em>Denno Coil<\/em> will certainly also appreciate <em>Kaiba<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madhouse.co.jp\/hells\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hells<\/a>, based on Sin&#8217;Ichi Hiromoto&#8217;s three-volume manga Hells Angels, is a wild, satirical horror\/action\/comedy featuring monster design by the late great Yasushi Nirasawa and animation direction by Kazuto Nakazawa (<em>Comedy<\/em>, <em>Kill Bill<\/em> anime sequences). The film is perfect for fans of anime like <em>Kill la Kill<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jg89HHxFPHE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2017-06-11\/discotek-to-release-kaiba-tv-anime-galaxy-express-999-adieu-galaxy-express-999-hells-anime-films-on-blu-ray\/.117309\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m a day late on the news, I&#8217;m still just as excited over DiscoTek&#8217;s acquisition of domestic DVD\/BD release rights to Madhouse&#8217;s 2008 television series Kaiba and feature film Hells because both are esoteric masterpieces. The 12-episode Kaiba television series created &#038; directed by auteur director Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei), may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime-news","category-video-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hells_Kaiba.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36334,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36329\/revisions\/36334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}