Anime Limited brings Martian Successor Nadesico to the UK on Blu-ray

If there's one thing we want to do in 2017, it's to get to burning... and now we can, as Anime Limited have tonight confirmed their plans to bring the classic Martian Successor Nadesico to the UK on Blu-ray!

What's more, the series will be getting the distributor's trademark Collector's Edition release (with a Standard Edition to follow, likely in 2018), containing not only the original TV series in its remastered Blu-ray form but also the show's follow-up film The Prince of Darkness across four discs, while the additional Gekiganger 3 OVA is also included as part of an additional DVD of bonus content.

There are no further details of the exact look, contents or date of this release at the time of writing, but as a notable slice of TV anime history that still holds up well today we'll be looking forward to see more about what to expect from this new release.

If you aren't familiar with it, here's the synopsis for Xebec's 1996 series:

Akito Tenkawa doesn’t want to fight. Despite a childhood spent as a fan of the anime Gekiganger 3, a mecha show, he’d rather cook than pilot a mecha. Fate intervenes when his home on Mars is destroyed, and he is mysteriously transported in an instant to the Earth. He has questions no one can fully answer, but follows a girl from a chance meeting in the hope of discovering what has happened to him. The girl, Yurika Misumaru, is captain of the private battleship Nadesico, and in order to follow her, he enlists as the ship’s cook. Possessing the nanite implants that allow him to control mecha, he’s a handy backup pilot for the tactical mecha of the Nadesico, the Aestivalises. He joins a crew bent on avenging Mars and composed of misfits, otaku, and ditzes, but who are in reality handpicked experts. They take their own private war back to Mars to face the harsh reality that life may not always be like a giant mecha series.

You can read the full news post outlining this announcement over at the All the Anime Blog.