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Expelled from Paradise and Haikyu!! Released Monday

On Monday June 3, Anime Limited will release the feature film Expelled from Paradise as both a Limited Collector's Edition Blu-ray/DVD and a standard DVD. The Collector's Edition will contain art cards and a 40-page art booklet.

The Anime Limited site described the story of the the CG film, written by Gen Urobuchi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Psycho-Pass):

With Earth now left in ruins following the "Nano Hazard," most of humanity has abandoned the planet they once called home along with their physical bodies and rebuilt their digitalized minds into a society within the cyber universe of "DEVA."

A.D. 2400, DEVA's central council detects an incident of unauthorized access into their mainframe. Someone on Earth was trying to hack into the system. The only information DEVA was able to retrieve was that the hacker referred to himself as "Frontier Setter."

To investigate the mysterious hacker's motives, the high officials of DEVA dispatch System Security Third Officer Angela Balzak to the Earth's surface. Equipped with a prosthetic "material body," Angela attempts to make contact with a local agent Dingo, but what awaited her instead was a swarm of Sandworms now infesting the Earth's surface. Angela intercepts the gruesome pests with her exoskeletal powered suit Arhan. Will Angela and Dingo be able to find Frontier Setter on this devastated planet?

Animatsu is releasing season 2 of the sports series Haikyu!! on both Blu-ray and DVD. This anime adaptation of Haruichi Furudate's Haikyu!! volleyball manga follows Shōyō Hinata (voiced by Ayumu Murase ), who began playing volleyball after seeing the "small giants" who played the sport when he was in elementary school.

Anime Limited is releasing a standard edition of the action-thriller Terror in Resonance, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop), on Blu-ray.