Earlier in the month MVM Entertainment announced they would release Magical Girl Site and Wasteful Days of High School Girls on Blu-Ray, as well as confirmed Steelbook Blu-Ray editions of Ergo Proxy, Paranoia Agent and Serial Experiments Lain. Well, courtesy of retail listings at online retailers, we now know when to expect these titles in the UK.
The online retail listings also reveal the expected SRP (Suggested Retail Price) for each title and can be pre-ordered, but a breakdown of each title (and where to pre-order) can be found listed below:
Blu-Ray Editions:
Magical Girl Site:
Release Date: 22nd September 2025 [Amazon UK | HMV | Rarewaves | Zavvi]
SRP: £39.99
Japanese with English subtitles | 12 Episodes
Bonus Features: Music Videos, Making of Music Videos
Synopsis: Bullied by other girls at school and abused by her brother at home, Aya Asagiri’s life has become so bleak that she’s contemplating killing herself just to escape. Then a strange site on the internet promises to make her a magical girl and the consequences prove beyond terrifying when a toy gun left in Aya’s locker kills one of her bullies! Being a murderer isn’t the worst part of Aya’s new situation, however, as it turns out that there have been other Magical Girls before Aya, and someone has been systematically hunting them down, killing them and taking their magical artifacts! Together with her classmate Tsuyuno, Aya must now track down the other magical girls and discover who is murdering them and why… all before an ominous counter finishes a deadly countdown on the MAGICAL GIRL SITE!
Wasteful Days of Highschool Girls:
Release Date: 25th August 2025 [Amazon UK | HMV | Rarewaves | Zavvi]
SRP: £39.99
English & Japanese with English subtitles | 12 Episodes
Bonus Features: Textless opening & closing songs, Japanese Promos and Episode Previews
Synopsis: Tanaka Nozomu isn’t exactly brilliant. But, given that her only goal for high school was to get a boyfriend, who else would fail to realize that attending an all-girls school was a bad idea? Well, there’s always the fallback plan of getting other girls to introduce her to boys they know. Too bad that Tanaka’s “bright” idea of giving her classmates nicknames based on less attractive character traits has caused her un-flattered friends “Robo” (for her apparent lack of emotions) and “Wota” (a reference to a creepy otaku types), as well as not-friends like “Loli” (who’s hypersensitive about her petite size,) to “reward” Tanaka with the special nickname of “Baka” (“idiot”), which is quickly adopted by the entire student body. Well, maybe the second week of school will be better in WASTEFUL DAYS OF HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS.
Steelbook Blu-Ray Editions:
Ergo Proxy:
Release Date: 29th September 2025 [Amazon UK | HMV | Rarewaves | Zavvi]
SRP: £44.99
English & Japanese with English Subtitles | 23 Episodes
Bonus Features: Featurettes, Promo Videos, Commericals, Textless Opening & Closing songs
Synopsis: The domed city of Romd is an impenetrable would-be utopia where humans and robots coexist, and everything is under complete government control – or so it appears. While working on a mysterious murder case, Re-l Mayer, a female detective from the Civilian Intelligence Office, receives a foreboding message that something is going to “awaken.” That night, she’s attacked by a deformed super-being. What was this unidentified monster that attacked her, and who was the figure that came in between them? As Re-l attempts to unlock this spiraling mystery, a metaphysical battle cry leads her to the unknown outside world…
Paranoia Agent:
Release Date: 11th August 2025 [Amazon UK | HMV | Rarewaves | Zavvi]
SRP: £39.99
English & Japanese with English subtitles | 13 Episodes
Bonus Features: Storyboard, Paranoia Radio Episode, Commentaries, Promo Videos, Textless Opening & Closing Songs
Synopsis: After the first victim’s story the police felt the overly stressed woman was having a breakdown and liedi o cover up for some crime. However, after the third and fourth attacks upon unrelated victims led to the same description of a young attacker with a golden baseball bat and in-line skates, the police had to wonder: is the Lil’ Slugger real or a sinister phantom?
Serial Experiments Lain:
Release Date: 15th September 2025 [Amazon UK | HMV | Rarewaves | Zavvi]
SRP: £39.99
English & Japanese with English subtitles | 13 Episodes
Bonus Features: Promo Videos, Commericals, Textless Opening & Closing songs
Synopsis: There is a world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is also a wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a 13 year old girl, discovers how closely the 2 worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: I still live here. I just abandoned my body. Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur?
All five titles can be pre-ordered from online retailers, and pre-orders are expected to appear in the coming weeks on Anime-On-Line as early bird deals.
