Ecchi blu-ray release dates for July 2015

blu-ray July

It’s a good time to be an ecchi fan.

July 1st:  Samurai Girls After OVA 02
July 8th:  Absolute Duo vol.04
July 22nd:  Sidonia no Kishi: Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki vol.04
July 23rd:  Grisaia no Meikyu
July 24th:  High School DxD BorN
July 31st:  Isuca vol.05 / Shinmai Maou no Testament vol.05 / Triage X vol.02

 

Samurai Girls After OVA 02  (July 1st)

 

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You can see the fanservice review here, or watch it in 1080p here.

 

Absolute Duo vol.04  (July 8th)

 

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The anime has already shown precisely one more nipple than the novels or manga ever did.  I’m not expecting redraws for nudity, but it’ll be interesting to see if the steam disappears here like it did it in volume two.

 

Sidonia no Kishi: Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki vol.04  (July 22nd)

 

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We’ll probably see nipples added here.  Also keep in mind that the first season used screen cropping to hide nipples, so there will probably be some expanding screens here as well.

 

Grisaia no Meikyu  (July 23rd)

 

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This sequel season to Grisaia no Kajutsu  attempts to bundle the remaining two parts of the Grisaia trilogy into a single season.  Here, we get the brief adaptation of Le Labyrinthe de la Grisaia  for the equivalent of two episodes.  The remaining ten episodes of this series adapt Le Eden de la Grisaia  under the alternate anime title Grisaia no Rakuen.

Both these series combine in an odd way for a single anime season, and by appearances it seems to have less fanservice than the Grisaia no Kajutsu  did.  Whether or not this series has specials will be a fairly important detail.  CD Japan lists the BD run time at only 47 minutes (the TV air time was 47 minutes), but they’ve been wrong before.

 

High School DxD BorN  (July 24th)

 

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The main draw for the DxD Born BDs will be the specials.  The titles of each special are self-explanatory:

Volume 1:  “Rias and Akeno, Girl Fight!?”
Volume 2:  “Church Trio’s Underwear, Amen!”    (This is probably referring to Asia, Xenovia, and Irina)
Volume 3:  “Koneko’s Senjutsu Treatment ~nyan”
Volume 4:  “Levia-tan and So-tan ☆”
Volume 5:  “Steamy Grayfia”
Volume 6:  “Authentic Record! Rossweisse-sensei”

While all of these specials are worth looking forward to, the one that I’m the most jazzed for is Grayfia’s.  She’s been around since season one but never really got the spotlight despite being the closest thing this series has to a milf archetype.

The lack of a spelled out Kuroka special is disheartening… hopefully she crashes the party in Koneko’s episode.

 

Isuca vol.05  (July 31st)

 

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It’s funny to think that this is already the final volume of Isuca from the TV airings (the OVA hits stores late next month).  We still haven’t even seen volumes 3 or 4 on the internet yet.  I’m sure we’ll get to see them some day, hopefully the completion of the series next month will spur [Reinforce] to finish their torrent of it.

 

Shinmai Maou no Testament vol.05  (July 31st)

 

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I’m probably in the minority, but I really like that Maria has two forms.  Later this month we’ll finally get to see what uncensored ‘oppai mode’ Maria looks like.  And that’s not even the biggest highlight of the volume.  Yuki’s lengthy and heavily censored ‘pact’ scene will be uncensored, and probably extended by a couple minutes.

What’s interesting about this series is how it feels so ‘new’ in the way that it stimulates viewers.  I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I think it’s probably the decidedly unpolished nature of it; and also how there is a sort of ‘eruptive’ quality to the erotic scenes.  I don’t like hentai a fraction as much as I like ecchi, but I do think it’s sort of fair to say that Testament is almost like a ecchi / hentai hybrid.  And it works.

Looking at uncensored T n’ A on blu-ray is always enjoyable, but for many series it can feel routine rather than ‘exciting.’  Every volume of Testament has been exhilarating, an event to look forward to.  Even with humble production values and art mistakes galore, Testament has clearly been the most interesting and rousing ecchi series so far this year.

I wouldn’t have guessed that an anime that blurs the line between ecchi and hentai would be this good.  Hopefully IMS can keep it rolling.

 

Triage X vol.02  (July 31st)

 

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There will probably be a small amount of nudity, possibly via redraw, followed by the second of three onsen scenes in this series.   Be sure to enjoy it, we won’t see another onsen scene again until the final volume.