Amazon decided to price-match Best Buy on a number of Sentai Filmworks anime and this set happened to be one of them. I never thought that I would get this at a lower price-point.
Note: Some of the artwork used in the illustration book featured in this set may be considered Not Safe For Work so the reader is advised.
Note: The photos in this unboxing have been updated on 28th June 2019, but the content is identical.
Infinite Stratos 2 is an anime series from studio 8bit and publisher TBS. The anime is based on the light novel series written by Izuru Yumizuru with illustration artwork drawn by okiura and CHOCO. This is the second season of the anime series that aired in October 2013.
A couple years back Sentai Filmworks had to deal with a bunch of Blu-ray holdbacks from Japanese publisher TBS. The holdbacks meant that they would have to wait a very long time (averaging 1-3 years) before releasing the series on Blu-ray due to reverse importation. Infinite Stratos 2 was among the titles caught up in the situation and was eventually released on Blu-ray in January 2017, however only as a limited edition box set (similar situation happened with Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!).
The interesting part about this limited edition set is that it is actually a replica of the Japanese Blu-ray Disc Box in its entirety (minus the authored discs). So overall it is a very unique case for Sentai Filmworks, with the last time that something like this had happened was with Highschool of the Dead back in 2014.
The limited edition release includes the entire second season on Blu-ray across 3 discs in English & Japanese audio with English subtitles. The entire second season package comprises of 12 episodes, One Summer’s Memories (Broadcast Version) episode, the World Purge OVA and also the Infinite Wedding Picture Drama. The subtitles are locked during playback and the regions for the Blu-ray are geo-locked so you’ll only need a games console that has a Blu-ray drive or a normal Blu-ray player with the country code set to the United States to play the discs.
Blu-ray Specs:
Languages: English, Japanese
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0, Japanese DTS-HD MA 2.0
Video: 1080p High Definition Native format with 16:9 ratio
Region: A
Geo-Locked Region: United States
Subtitles: English
Locked Subtitles: Yes
Discs: 3
Plot Synopsis (via Sentai Filmworks):
There are probably worse things that could have happened to Ichika Orimura than being the only guy in a training academy filled with military hardware and several battalions of highly competitive and extremely boy-crazed teenage girls. And being caught in a five-girl crossfire between his obsessive childhood friends Lingyin and Houki and the even more zealous British, German and French pilots Cecillia, Laura and Charlotte, at least turned out to be survivable. But surely, Ichika’s finally put all his female troubles behind him, right? Oh don’t be ridiculous.
None of the femmes fatales in his life have canceled their conquest scenarios; there’s double trouble arriving in the form of the Sarashiki sisters; the rest of the school is still waiting in line to take their shot; and when a whole new set of female pilots working for the bad guys shows up with a new generation of stolen IS hardware, things are about to get utterly lethal! The mayhem continues, the mecha runs amok, the hormones run wild and the maiden’s behavior becomes even less maidenly as Ichika gets schooled for a second spectacular semester.
Blu-ray On-Disc Extra Features:
OVA: World Purge
Infinite Wedding Picture Drama [Japanese audio with English subtitles only]
One Summer’s Memories (Broadcast Version)
Clean Opening & Closing Animations
Limited Edition Extras:
Rigid B5 Sized Heavy Chipboard Box with Clean artwork, Title on Spines, Info on Sheet
144-page B5 Sized Illustration Book
Inside the huge B5 sized set is a smaller set housing a digipack containing the complete series on Blu-ray. The disc covers have been translated into English; with the first disc covering episodes 1-5, second disc covering episodes 6-10, and the third disc covering episodes 11-12 & on-disc extra content such as the OVAs and Picture Drama.
Next, we have the B5 sized illustration book containing a ton of artwork featuring the main cast of female waifu girls from the series. The artwork does feature some ecchi shots but no unexposed parts like nipples etc. It is for the most part artwork that is considered not safe for work. At the back of the illustration book is a list of every credit for the artwork presented. Sentai has also provided an English translation for the staff & cast on a paper sheet.
Infinite Stratos 2 is available on Blu-ray and DVD from Sentai Filmworks.
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