Sentai Filmworks announced earlier this year that one of their previous DVD only releases was getting an upgrade, which was surprising since it was a series that you didn’t really hear people talk all that much about. Book of Bantorra, a two season series, is set for a Blu-ray release on May 13th, 2014 and now the company has revealed the finalized cover art as well as the silkscreening. The show was originally released by Sentai Filmworks back in the summer of 2012 and it apparently did well enough to justify the home video upgrade at the same time that it was getting a combined DVD collection release. It was originally released in bilingual form so the dub is included here but is not “new” in the sense that it didn’t have one before.
And here’s the original artwork as solicited:
Plot concept: In another time and place, on a world of pain and sorrow, when someone dies, their soul doesn’t go to Heaven or Hell – it becomes a book. A book that reveals the deceased’s innermost secrets… and can be read by anyone. Protecting these priceless treasures is the elite organization known as the Armed Librarians. It’s their job to keep the books and the knowledge within them safe from those who would misuse or destroy them.
It’s a tough, dangerous job, so Chief Librarian Hamyuts Maseta recruits only the best and the brightest psychics to join her team of expert fighters. But will they be good enough to stop the fanatics of the Shindeki Church from wrecking vengeance on the entire world? Only time will tell, but that book hasn’t been written yet.