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Sentai Filmworks’ Tsuritama Blu-Ray, DVD Go Out Of Print


Earlier today, Sentai Filmworks announced that their home video releases for Tsuritama are officially out of print. The publisher is selling their remaining stock at $14.99 per Blu-Ray copy ($9.99 per DVD), while supplies last.

Tsuritama Out of Print Notice

Tsuritama is a Spring 2012 series from A-1 Pictures. Kenji Nakamura (Gatchaman Crowds, Ayakashi – Samurai Horror Tales) directed the project, which features character designs by Atsuya Uki (Digimon Adventure tri.). Toshiya Ono (Land of the Lustrous, The Promised Neverland) is in charge of series composition.

Sentai Filmworks describes the title as:

When Yuki Sanada ends up living in Enoshima with his grandmother, it’s just one more in a long line of transfers to a new school and new friends. Except Yuki doesn’t make friends easily, so he’s used to making do without any. All that’s about to change, however, when the other new transfer student arrives in class – complete with a rod and reel – and announces that he’s an alien. Now as he learns to fine art of fishing, Yuki finds himself drawn into a friendship with Haru the alien, moody Natsuki the Fishing Prince, and the mysterious Akira with his pet duck, Tapioca. But there’s something sinister afoot in Enoshima, and more than Yuki’s new found friendships is at stake. If Yuki can’t make the catch of the day, the whole of Japan, and perhaps the world itself, will be caught in an alien net. Get ready for the biggest fish tale ever in tsuritama!

Source: Sentai Filmworks (Email Communication)

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