Sav! The World Productions, the company responsible for bringing the Oban Star Racers French-Japanese anime to TV in 2006 in a co-production arrangement with Japanese studios Hal Film Maker and Pumpkin3D, has announced plans to release the series on Blu-Ray. Oban Star Racers creator/co-director Savin Yeatman-Eiffel and creative director/co-director Thomas Romain jointly made the announcement in a YouTube video posted last Saturday and is embedded below.
Anime News Network has confirmed in additional correspondence that the release will include the entire 26-episode anime on five region-free Blu-ray discs with 1080p video at 24 frames per second, and the original 4:3 aspect ratio as originally broadcast in 2006. The release will also include 11 dubs in multiple languages: French, English, Japanese, German, Russian, Latin American Spanish, Latin Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and Polish. The release will also feature subtitles in French and English and a planned collector's edition will also include a 120-page mini artbook with additional artwork. The production company has also opened a pre-launch page for the Kickstarter ahead of Tuesday's launch.
Sav! The World Productions describes the series:
Every 10.000 years, champions from every civilization in the galaxy face off during a mystical and dangerous competition - the Great Race of Oban. Though shrouded in mystery, it is said the outcome of the race will completely redefine the balance of power within the Milky Way. For the Earth-Team, defeat is not an option as it may well spell the end of the fragile and embattled human race.
Too bad Earth's ace pilot falls victim to a terrible sabotage in the early stages of the pre-selection! With no other replacement available within a 25 light years radius, our last chance of victory now squarely rests on the shoulders of a rebellious 15-year-old mechanic, Molly, and her gung-ho copilot, Jordan. But the young woman is not prepared to shoulder such a huge responsibility. The only reason she joined the team (under an alias: her real name's Eva) was to confront her father, stern race manager Don Wei, the man who abandoned her in a boarding school ten years ago and never even bothered to call.
Will “Molly” manage to pilot under her father's harsh command, let alone survive the mad competition? Will she ever find the strength to tell him who she truly is, and grow past the wounds of her past thanks to her new friends: Jordan and Nourasian prince Aikka? Whatever happens, Molly's fate, as well as the future of the human race, are now inextricably intertwined!
The series was previously released on US DVD in 2008 via Shout! Factory, in limited quantities following its TV run on the Disney-owned cable TV networks ABC Family (now known as Freeform) and the former Toon Disney network (now known as Disney XD) on the defunct Jetix programming block.
SOURCES: Anime News Network, Official Page (EN), Kickstarter
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