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Hanabee Licenses BTOOOM! and Accel World

posted on by Jon Hayward
At the Brisbane Supanova Pop Culture Expo today Accel World to Australia in 2014;

The announcements were made at their Hanabee Surprise Screenings during Supanova Expo and cross-posted to their Facebook page.

Btooom!

Ryōta Sakamoto is 22, unemployed and lives at home with his mother playing his favourite online combat video game, Btooom! However when he wakes up on a tropical island with no memory of how he got there Ryōta soon discovers that he's trapped in a real life version of Btooom! where he must survive against other players to make it off the island. Fortunately for Ryōta he's one of the top ranked Btooom! players and has allies to help him escape.

Btooom! is originally a manga by Yen Press with volume 4 being released this month.

This 12 episode anime adaptation was screened on the Final Fantasy: Unlimited, Puella Magi Madoka Magica) adapting the character designs.

licensed Btooom! last year and have released the complete collection in North America earlier this year.

Release Details

Hanabee will be releasing Btooom! on the 8th of February 2014 on DVD and Blu-Ray and contain both the English here.

Accel World

Set in the near-future, Accel World follows Haruyuki "Haru" Arita who is constantly bullied at his school. Haru spends his time logged onto the school network playing virtual squash and avoiding the bullies but after Kuroyukihime, the most popular and attractive student at school puts a stop to his harassment things begin to change. Haru is quickly introduced to Brain Burst, a mysterious Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online (VRMMO) Fighting Game where people can fight to gain super-human abilities in the real world and Kuroyukihime needs his help in order to defeat the "Six Kings of Pure Colour" and discover the secrets of Brain Burst.

The show Yukiko Aikei is served as character designer and animation director.

Release Details

Hanabee will be releasing part 1 of Accel World on the 8th of February 2014 on DVD and contain both the English dub and Japanese audio with subtitles. Part 1 will contain the first 12 episodes and part 2 will be released at a undetermined point in the future. You can already pre-order Accel World at Hanabee's website and view their press release here.
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