MCM London Expo 2017 Day 1 Announcements

It has been a busy day at the first day of the MCM Expo 2017. Here is our news and announcement roundup.

All the Anime

Our friends at All the Anime, Jeremy Graves and our former Editor in Chief, Andy Hanley had this to tell us:

• Perfect Blue and Fireworks are due out in cinemas 31^st October and 15^th November respectively. Select Cineworld cinemas have screenings of Perfect blue sooner.
• Lu over the wall is due to have a cinema release on the 6^th December.
• Live Action Tokyo Ghoul is due in cinemas in January 2018. Dates to be confirmed.
• All the Anime have released the Attack on Titan board game. This is available exclusively at MCM London 2017 while stocks last.
• Eureka Seven, limited collector’s edition, is also here. Featuring the 100+ page magazine style art book and again, while stocks last.
• Previously announced, the Violet Evergarden anime will be getting a premier at MCM London 2017, 1:30pm in the platinum panel rooms. This will be followed by the LWA Panel.
• All the Anime have announced their new music label, which will be releasing select anime soundtracks on 180gm vinyl. First to be confirmed are A Silent Voice and Trigun / Trigun Badlands Rumble. 2 more releases to be confirmed in 2018. At the moment, while downloadable soundtracks may be a possibility, this is subject to licensing. Vinyl records will be released worldwide.
• Durarara and Gurren Lagann will be coming to Viceland in 2018.
• Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust will be getting a collector’s edition and bluray in 2018.
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya S1 is getting a Blu-ray release in 2018.
• We had confirmation that No Game No Life Zero was the missing film at SLA. This was not shown due to issues in the US following Hurricane Harvey and its impact on Sentai Filmworks. This title has been announced for a release by MVM Films. See below.
• Fairy Tail Dragon Cry is getting a home video release in 2018.
• Sword Art Online, Ordinal Scale is getting a home video release in 2018.
• Death Parade is coming soon. Delays due to huge amounts of content for the ultimate edition art book.
• Some unfortunate news was forthcoming regarding the Sound Euphonium and Rakugo Shinjou releases. These have had to be cancelled by All the Anime due to a loss of the license.

MVM Films

MVM have confirmed a release for the No Game No Life Zero feature film in 2018.