Manga Entertainment license Ushio and Tora, A Certain Magical Index movie

Just this morning we reported on listings appearing on Amazon UK lifting the lid on Manga Entertainment's release schedule for the third quarter of 2017 - now this has been supplemented with news of two all-new acquisitions, also getting a Q3 release.

First up is A Certain Magical Index: The Movie - The Miracle of Endymion, which is set for release on 11th September 2017 as a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack. Manga Entertainment describes the film thus:

Welcome to Academy City, a futuristic metropolis populated with super-powered students. As the brightest intellectual minds in the city work to complete the world’s first space elevator—a towering spire capable of taking citizens into the heavens—perpetually unlucky Kamijo and nun-in-training Index befriend a talented street musician named Arisa. When the beautiful singer lands a big break, her miraculous voice attracts unwanted attention, making the songstress a target for magicians and scholars alike. As the battle between sorcery and science blasts into space, Kamijo, Index, and their allies in Academy City are rocketed to a psychedelic stadium thousands of feet above Japan in a desperate attempt to keep Arisa—and the rest of the world—safe. Science fiction and fantasy collide in this action-packed feature film set in the shared universe of A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun.

This is followed a week later by the Ushio and Tora Complete Series Collection, coming our way as a Standard Edition DVD and Collector's Edition Blu-ray SKUs on September 18th. That Collector's Edition will feature four Blu-rays in two cases with reversible inlays, a rigid art box, and other bonus elements that are yet to be confirmed. Here's the series blurb:

Long ago, a ferocious monster terrorized the land, until a samurai, wielding the legendary “Beast Spear”, sealed him away. 500 years later, a middle school student named Ushio Aotsuki accidently uncovers the monster in a hidden cellar under his family’s temple. The unsealed monster and the spear attract many other supernatural creatures to the temple and Ushio is forced to release the monster in order to defeat them. Ushio names the monster “Tora” and unwillingly work together to battle other spirits and demons.

Thus, we can now look at the updated Manga Entertainment Q3 schedule:

Monday 3rd July
One Punch Man Collection 1 (DVD Standard Edition, Blu-ray Collector's Edition)
Soul Eater NOT! (Blu-ray)

Monday 10th July
Himouto! Umaru-chan (DVD/Blu-ray Collector's Edition)
Mirai Nikki: Future Diary - Complete Series Collection (DVD, Blu-ray)

Monday 17th July
Yo-Kai Watch - Season 1 Collection (DVD)

Monday 24th July
Naruto Shippuden Box Set 29 (DVD)
School-Live! Complete Series Collection (DVD/Blu-ray combo Collector's Edition)

Monday 14th August
Sword Art Online Complete Season 1 Collection (DVD, Blu-ray)

Monday 21st August
A Certain Magical Index II (DVD, Blu-ray)
A Certain Scientific Railgun S (DVD, Blu-ray)

Monday 28th August
Food Wars - Complete Season 1 Collection (DVD/Blu-ray combo Collector's Edition)
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal - Collection 1 (DVD)

Monday 4th September 2017
Naruto Shippuden Complete Series 7 Box Set (DVD)
My Love Story Complete Series Collection (DVD)

Monday 11th September 2017
A Certain Magical Index: The Movie - The Miracle of Endymion (DVD/Blu-ray combo)

Monday 18th September 2017
Ushio and Tora Complete Series Collection (DVD Standard Edition, Blu-ray Collector's Edition)

Monday 2nd October
Naruto Shippuden Box Set 30 (DVD)

To add some more flesh to the bones of those dates, the One Punch Man Blu-ray Collector's Edition (distributed by Manga Entertainment for Kazé) will include the entire first season of the show plus six OVA episodes, interviews with the director, character designer, musical act JAM Project and the US voice cast. From a physical point of view, the release will arrive in a rigid box that also contains an 84-page booklet.

Meanwhile, both the  Himouto! Umaru-chan and School-Live! Complete Series Collector's Editions will come with a plastic O-card and rigid box together with the series on three DVDs and two Blu-rays, while there's currently no news on the contents of the Food Wars Complete Season 1 Collector's Edition beyond it containing the entire first series on both DVD and Blu-ray formats.