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Sentai Filmworks Licenses Mecha Action Anime Reideen

Sentai Filmworks announced on Wednesday that it has licensed the Reideen television anime series. The company plans to release the series digitally and on home video.

Reideen is the 2007 remake of the 1975 mecha robot anime series Yuusha Raideen, but features a new story. The series, which ran for 26 episodes, aimed to capture the feeling of the old series and add 3DCG animation that brings more detail to the mecha designs featured in the original. Mitsuru Hongo (Outlaw Star, Pilot Candidate) directed the series at Production I.G

Sentai Filmworks describes the story:

Mathematically gifted, Junki Saiga is a typical high school student, until his family hears that his father's remains were discovered. His father was an archaeologist and researcher who had disappeared during an exploration years ago. Along with his remains were artifacts and notes near Japan's pyramid, which is a place thought to be man-made. Soon after the shock of his father's remains being discovered, a meteor comes crashing from the sky carrying a foreign robotic life-form that immediately begins to cause havoc. This sequence of strange events simultaneously triggers a bracelet left from his father's research to activate and merge with an ancient robot that had been hidden inside Japan's pyramid, this is REIDEEN. To save the world Junki and REIDEEN must fight this alien threat! Faced with multiple enemies, REIDEEN and Junki must overcome those that seek REIDEEN's power and those that want to see REIDEEN and Junki destroyed. Without the help of the nation or even his friends, Junki must push himself to succeed in piloting REIDEEN.