Volume 8 of the anime series Hanasaku Iroha will be out for sale on 15 February 2012. Volume 8 contains Episodes 22-24. Two editions to choose: DVD or Blu-ray.

Plot Summary

The story follows Ohana Matsumae, a 16-year-old girl born in Tokyo who ends up working at a hot-spring inn (onsen ryokan), and who has yet to decide her future.

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Hanasaku Iroha Vol.8
Catalog Number: PCXG-50098
Release Date: 15 February 2012
Retail Price: 8,190 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [DVD] Hanasaku Iroha Vol.8
Catalog Number: PCBG-51918
Release Date: 15 February 2012
Retail Price: 6,510 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Plot Summary

You Sato is a new high school student living in the dorms. While seeking cheap eats at the local market he finds himself beat up and semi-conscious with fleeting glimpses of a girl during the moments of his collapse. As his memories recover the next day, he discovers that trying to purchase half priced lunchboxes can be hazardous to his health as free-for-all fights with local students for the discounted food is the nightly routine. The girl from the night before, Sen Yarizui, is an upper classmate known as the Frozen Witch and is one of the local Wolves who dominates the area. She educates him on the rules of the game where Wolves eat well while Dogs settle for cup ramen. With fellow first year student Hana Oshiroi, a fetishistic germaphobe, You Sato sets out to discover if he too has what it takes to be a Wolf and taste the sweet victory of half priced boxed banquets or wallow in the bitter defeat of reconstituted noodles and salty broth in a styrofoam bowl.

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Ben-To Vol.3
Catalog Number: PCXG-50113
Release Date: 15 February 2012
Retail Price: 7,140 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [DVD] Ben-To Vol.3
Catalog Number: PCBG-51983
Release Date: 15 February 2012
Retail Price: 6,090 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Watching this anime always made me feel hungry xD.

Plot Summary

The club room of the defunct Tea Ceremony Club has been taken over by a 4-person group calling themselves “The Amusement Club”. The Student Council finally get off their butts to sweep out these ruffians…such a volume 1 is, actually, not at all what you can expect from this manga, a full-bodied comedy. Overflowing with love, it’s guaranteed to give you the energy to live healthily and heartily for tomorrow. Alrighty! Papa’s going back to sleep now!

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Yuru Yuri Vol.6
Catalog Number: PCXG-50126
Release Date: 15 February 2012
Retail Price: 7,140 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [DVD] Yuru Yuri Vol.6
Catalog Number: PCBG-51890
Release Date: 15 February 2012
Retail Price: 6,090 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

This is the final volume for release. Next up will be the LIVE event which is scheduled for release in March 2012. Will put up the post hopefully by early March? Lol.

Volume 2 release of the anime series Shakugan no Shana III out this 27 January 2012. Volume contains Episode 4-6. 2 Editions to preorder: DVD or Blu-ray. Both are limited editions, includes a clear case and a booklet (12 pages).

Plot Summary

Continuing from the events of the last series, both Shana and Kazumi stand at their respective locations waiting for Yuji to meet with one of them, only to discover that Yuji has disappeared, with not even the slightest evidence of his existence left behind. All is not lost however, as the letters the two of them sent to him still give hope of Yuji’s continued existence. As Shana and company search for answers on Yuji’s whereabouts, they soon find the truth staring back at them when Yuji reappears in front of them as the leader of Bal Masqué. Left with little choice, Shana must now confront her most unlikely adversary on the battlefield in her most difficult challenge yet.

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Shakugan no Shana III Vol.1 [Limited Edition]
Catalog Number: GNXA-1432
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Retail Price: 7,875 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [DVD] Shakugan no Shana III Vol.1 [Limited Edition]
Catalog Number: GNBA-1962
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Retail Price: 6,825 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Plot Summary

A school battle action & love comedy with ecchi elements. Yachi Haruaki is a high school boy and naturally resistant to curses. His father, Honatsu, sends him cursed instruments called “Worse” to try to break this. One day, Haruaki receives a black cube from Honatsu. During the night, he encounters a naked silver haired girl stealing rice crackers. She is the human-form of the black cube, an instrument of torture called “Fear in Cube”. Haruaki and the girl ‘Fear’ fight together against other ‘Worse’ instruments and their owners using Fear’s 32 mechanisms of torture.

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] C Cube Vol.2 [w/CD, Limited Edition]
Catalog Number: KIXA-90155
Release Date: 25 January 2012
Retail Price: 9,450 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] C Cube Vol.2 [Regular Edition]
Catalog Number: KIXA-155
Release Date: 25 January 2012
Retail Price: 7,875 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [DVD] C Cube Vol.2 [Regular Edition]
Catalog Number: KIBA-1919
Release Date: 25 January 2012
Retail Price: 6,300 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Volume 5 of the anime series Mayo Chiki would be out on 25 January 2012. Contains Episodes 9-10. All the editions contain a booklet. Only the Blu-ray edition with a bonus CD is packaged in a case illustrated by Seiji Kikuchi. Bonus CD has a radio program on it. Blu-ray [Regular Edition] and DVD Edition doesn’t get any bonus CD packaged with it.

Plot Summary

A high school junior student Kinjiro Sakamachi, who suffers gynophobia, happens to know a secret of his classmate Subaru Konoe, a butler of one of his classmates, Kanade Suzutsuki. Subaru is actually a girl. Kanade offers to help Kinjiro find a cure for his gynophobia in exchange for keeping the secret.

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Mayo Chiki Vol.5 [w/CD, Limited Edition]
Catalog Number: KIXA-90145
Release Date: 25 December 2011
Retail Price: 8,190 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Mayo Chiki Vol.5 [Regular Edition]
Catalog Number: KIXA-145
Release Date: 25 January 2011
Retail Price: 6,615 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [DVD] Mayo Chiki Vol.5
Catalog Number: KIBA-1902
Release Date: 25 January 2011
Retail Price: 5,565 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Plot Summary

Saya Kisaragi is a maiden of Ukishima Shrine and lives with her father. While she goes to high school like a normal girl, she fights against mysterious entities called Furukimono with a votive sword of the shrine on the order of her father…

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Blood-C Vol.5 [w/CD, Limited Edition]
Catalog Number: ANZX-6429
Release Date: 25 January 2012
Retail Price: 7,140 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [DVD] Blood-C Vol.5 [w/CD, Limited Edition]
Catalog Number: ANZB-6429
Release Date: 25 January 2012
Retail Price: 6,090 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [DVD] Blood-C Vol.5 [Regular Edition]
Catalog Number: ANSB-6429
Release Date: 25 January 2012
Retail Price: 5,040 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Plot Summary

Kaito Daimon is a brilliant 16-year-old teenager who loves to solve puzzles. He acquires an enigmatic item called the Armband of Orpheus that allows him to fully utilize his brain, but that consequentially drains him completely. Currently attending Root Academy as an honor student, he is invited by the school principal to confront a secret organization named POG. They create deadly Sage Puzzles to protect invaluable treasures and challenge the select few individuals capable of facing them. Given the title of Einstein, Kaito battles against the mysterious group in order to keep a promise he made as a kid while at the same time he heads towards the ultimate test: the Divine Puzzle.

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle Vol.1 [w/CD, Limited Edition]
Catalog Number: NSBS-16986
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Retail Price: 7,140 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle Vol.1 [Regular Edition]
Catalog Number: NSBS-16978
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Retail Price: 6,090 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [DVD] Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle Vol.1
Catalog Number: NSDS-16954
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Retail Price: 4,935 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

In addition, this anime release has English subtitles ^^!

Plot Summary

In a distant future, Japan is divided into feudal territories, which have been conquered and are ruled by outside countries. The flying city-ship Musashi, which holds the remnants of the Japanese, is being targeted and has no choice but to keep its people safe by going to war. With the fate of the world resting on its hands, the students of Musashi may hold the key to victory.

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon Vol.2 [w/CD, Limited Edition]
Catalog Number: BCXA-405
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Retail Price: 7,140 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: [Blu-ray] Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon Vol.2 [Regular Edition]
Catalog Number: BCXA-391
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Retail Price: 6,090 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: Nurarihyon no Mango: Sennen Makyo Vol.5 [Blu-ray w/CD]
Catalog Number: TBR-21315D
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Retail Price: 7,140 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan

Anime Title: Nurarihyon no Mango: Sennen Makyo Vol.5 [DVD w/CD]
Catalog Number: TDV-21325D
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Retail Price: 6,090 yen
Preorder at: CDJapan