Shout! Factory to Release Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir on Home Video 

Shout! Factory to Release Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir on Home Video

announced on Monday that it has entered a distribution alliance with entertainment group Zag to release Zag\'s

series in the United States and Canada. The rights include DVD, Blu-ray, and select digital outlets.

series debuted in South Korea last September, before premiering in the United States on

on December 6. The series is also airing in France and Australia, and will premiere in Canada, New Zealand, EMEA, Latin America, Italy, Brazil, Belgium, Switzerland, and Lithuania.

The 26-episode series follows two junior high students, Marinette and Adrien, chosen to save Paris from the evil doings of a mysterious super-villain. The storylines and adventures are rich with friends, family, fun, secret identity, transformation, villains, fashion, creativity and more, all within the spectacular backdrop of Paris.

As secret identity superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir, Marinette and Adrien must balance the crazy antics of normal teen life while stopping weekly baddies deployed by Hawk Moth to steal their powers and take over the world. With the help of their magical pets, and

miraculous jewels, the duo transform into their alter egos, Ladybug and Cat Noir, and are granted powers of speed, strength, agility and a clear mind.

The series is a co-production between Zag, Method Animation,

, and Method Animation co-produced a 2D-animated promotional video for the project announcement before relaunching it as a CG-animated series. Zag and

for the series, though it will include Cat Noir\'s design from the 3D CG-animated series, not the older design used in the promotional video.

Life is often cheap in anime - death is rarely permanent, but in Grimgar, something\'s different. Rebecca Silverman explores how anime typically deals with death, and what makes this show\'s handling of it so special. ― Spoiler Warning: this article contains important story information from Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, From The New World, Fushigi Yugi, Natusyuki Rendezvous, and Akame ga Kill Many words...

The biggest hidden gem in Studio Ghibli\'s library is finally coming out in the US with a brand-new dub starring Star Wars\' Daisy Ridley. Justin Sevakis revisits this quiet, beloved film and takes the brand-new English track for a spin. ― Only Yesterday is possibly the least appreciated anime in the Studio Ghibli catalog, probably because it stands out so oddly among the rest of the films (not to ment...

The March 2016 box from OMAKASE is celebrating global pop star Hatsune Miku with a collection of items that includes the full Piapro Character lineup. Just in time for the Miku Expo North American tour, mystery items include collectibles and gear themed around Miku, Kagamine Rin and Len, Megurine Luka, KAITO and MEIKO. “Piapro” is a shortening of “Peer Production” – the concept that users of Crypt...

While not a must-read for franchise fans, this prequel to the anime does show at least some promise at filling in some of the original story\'s gaps. ― The Angel Beats! anime series is unquestionably my favorite of all of the Key-connected titles, and one that I chose as the top American release of 2011, but that doesn\'t blind me to its most glaring weakness: that it had a lot more story to tell then ...

The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of Feb 12-18

Gintama crawls its way back to the top of the rankings this week, but can it dethrone Erased? Find out how all your favorite shows performed in our weekly user rankings! ― Our team of reviewers are following 27 anime series of the Winter 2016 season and readers are rating each episode as the reviews go up. So let\'s have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season. Keep in ...

UQ Holder does its best to make up for underlying weaknesses through sheer energy in its third volume, offering plenty of fights at the very least. ― UQ Holder is a fundamentally strange shounen manga. Generally, stories about upbeat young boys who dream of taking on the world don\'t focus on undying vampires with forbidden magic; they start small, giving their protagonists a lot of lead-up time to ea...

Both the Production I.G. and Toonami Cuts are included in this comprehensive release about mecha racing roller derby-style. Thrilling action balances out shaky logical underpinnings. ― Note: The series most commonly referred to as IGPX is actually the second series to bear that name. The first, a series of five 5 minute shorts animated in 2003 by Bee Train and Studio I.G. for Cartoon Network\'s Toonam...

Answerman - Why Are Dubs Only Made in L.A. and Texas?

One reader wants to know why every English dub they hear comes from one of two places: Texas or LA. What happened to all those other dub studios? Are they still around? Justin investigates. ― Luke asks: Since the turn of the decade, it seems the only places to record dubs are Houston (Sentai), the Dallas-Fort Worth area (Funimation) and Los Angeles (Aniplex, Bang Zoom!). Canada used to make dubs, in...

Shelf Life - Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie

Gabriella goes on a Space Adventure with a guy named Cobra and discovers one of the trippiest (and coolest) sci-fi anime films ever made. PLUS: all of this week\'s new anime releases! ― I wasn\'t quite sure what to talk about in my intro for this week until I found out that the Assassination Classroom anime is going to include the manga\'s as-yet-unpublished ending. That doesn\'t sound all that unusual ...

Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works Season 2 Blu-Ray

The conclusion of Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works is out on bluray with an English dub, which means it\'s time for Nick Creamer to dive back in and see how Aniplex\'s release stacks up. ― So here we are, back again with the second half of Unlimited Blade Works. When I reviewed the first half of this series, I stated that it was a very compelling action show with a few solid characters overall, h...

The Mike Toole Show - The Glitter Force Awakens

Netflix\'s Westernized version of Precure, the beautifully-named Glitter Force, sends Mike on a mystical journey through other bowdlerized versions of anime like One Piece and Cardcaptor Sakura. ― The last couple of times I\'ve been down to visit my brother and his family, I\'ve had the pleasure of talking to one of my nephews about anime. See, he\'s right in the middle of that sweet spot after first rea...

Taboo Tattoo\'s first volume introduces a decent story, but it\'s laden with enough tropes of the shounen action genre to make it feel too cookie cutter for comfort. ― If you\'re tired of the basic shounen action story when an average guy meets a crazy girl while gaining some sort of amazing supernatural power, then you\'re probably not going to be charmed by Taboo Tattoo\'s first volume. It plays out ver...