K: Seven Stories is a 2018 original theatrical film series directed by Shingo Suzuki and produced by studio GoHands, and a continuation to the 2015 television series K: Return of Kings from the same team. Staff credits also include writer Rei Rairaku, and music composed by Mikio Endō. The studio released each part theatrically per month from July up until December 2018 in Japan.
Background:
“Travel back in time to witness the first encounter between the Red King Mikoto Suoh and Blue King Reisi Munakata.
See the friendship of Misaki Yata and Saruhiko Fushimi as they struggle to find their place in the world.
Plus, find out about the origins of the Green Clan JUNGLE as well as the real truth behind the disastrous Kagutsu Incident.”
Plot Synopsis via Anime Limited, May 2021.
I haven’t seen many of the works produced by GoHands. The first time I heard about them was the Mardock Scramble film trilogy which I didn’t realise was produced by them until much later, but it was the K Project and their later infamous works Hand Shakers, W’z and the Tokyo Babylon adaptation where their name started to lose its reputation more (the latter in particular was amusing because of plagiarism so they were removed from the project). Despite that, I very much enjoyed what I saw from the K Project, which is probably their most known and successful franchise to date.
K Project started off with a simple series which was then followed by a theatrical film K: Missing Kings, another series K: Return of Kings, and now a six-part theatrical film series called K: Seven Stories. Despite the title, there’s only six parts released which was split into a twelve episode list for the western releases.
Viz Media released the franchise over in North America with an English dub including K: Seven Stories, while Anime Limited took over from K: Return of Kings onwards and even re-licensed the first season after KAZE initially had the rights. K: Seven Stories was also acquired by them and released on home video.
Collector’s Edition Contents:
K: Seven Stories continues the consistency for the collector’s edition packaging that Anime Limited have done for K Project over the years.
The package is presented as a rigid box with a digipack to house the Blu-rays, and also included is a 40-page booklet which includes character designs and artwork from the series.
The artwork is free of any information or BBFC content and the info sheet covers the information and specification like previous Anime Limited releases. The collector’s edition Blu-ray set is limited to 1000 units for SRP £59.99. As of the time of this write-up, a standard Blu-ray currently has yet to be scheduled.
The series was released with an early bird offer, but I acquired it as part of my 2022 Christmas haul as Anime Limited eventually offered the set for £14.99 during their 12 Days of Christmas sale.
Physical Contents:
- Rigid Box with clean artwork and digipack packaging
- Info sheet for specification and BBFC description
- 40-page Artbook
On-Disc Contents:
Distributor: Anime Limited
Released: 10th May 2021
The collector’s edition release for K: Seven Stories contains all 6 films split into two-parts for a total of 12 episodes across two Blu-ray discs, with the encode and authoring done by Viz Media. Audio options include Japanese with English subtitles and the STUDIOPOLIS English dub commissioned by Viz Media with the option to choose English HOH subtitles.
The first disc covers the films R:B -BLAZE-, SIDE:BLUE -Sirius-, SIDE:GREEN -Overwrite World-, and Lost Small World -Outside the Cage-. The second disc covers Memory of RED -BURN-, Circle Vision -Nameless Song-, and The Idol K, which is a compilation of 6 shorts (each running 7 mins in total) combined together to provide the same length as the other films.
The white subtitles are locked during playback, and the disc regions are playable to Blu-ray players set to B.
Blu-ray Specs:
| Languages | English, Japanese |
| Audio | English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 |
| Video | 1080p High Definition Native format 16:9 aspect ratio |
| Region | B |
| Subtitles | English, English HOH |
| Locked Subtitles | Yes |
| Discs | 2 BD-50s |
Blu-ray On-Disc Extra Features:
Disc 2:
- Clean Opening “SURVIVE”
- Clean Ending “Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!”
- Art Gallery
- KANAME Gallery
- Interview with Producer Go Nakanishi
- Interview with Cosplayer KANAME
- Interview with Shimba Tsuchiya/Takeru Kusuhara
- More from VIZ
Unboxing Photos:
Final Notes:
K: Seven Stories is available to order across multiple retailers in the United Kingdom. The collector’s edition Blu-ray can be acquired through Amazon UK, Anime Limited’s store, MVM’s Anime-on-Line, and United Publications.
(Disclaimer: Amazon links are also included when available. They are affiliated so if you decide to order them, I’ll earn a small percentage if they ship which will help me with any hauls or small bills.)
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