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Retailer: Media Blasters to Release Holy Knight Anime OVA
posted on by Rachel Mahoney
Online retailer OVA is subtitled-only and will ship on October 14 for US$12.99 and the live-action film will ship on October 28 for US$14.99.
Japanese production company released it on Blu-Ray in March 2012.
Project H published the manga in English in March and describes the story:
The ordinary school life of Shinta Mizumura was turned upside down by the sudden intrusion of the mysterious and beautiful Lilith Kishimoto, with her crimson eyes and long, crimson hair. This encounter is merely the beginning of it all. These hopelessly, entangled threads of fate from the distant past, now begins to unravel…
009-1: The End of the Beginning is listed as part of Media Blaster's Reina Ishikawa) stars as the titular cyborg agent Mylene "009-1" Hoffman.
The story is set in a world where the Cold War never ended, and the solitary cyborg agent 009-1 operates in the violent skirmishes waged between the two factions. The live-action film recreates not only the manga's gun battles, but also 009-1's signature "breast guns."
The film opened in Japan on September 7.
Thanks to Rachel L. for the news tip.
[Via WTK]
