M3 – That Black Steel
With the recent news that M3 – That Black Steel was being done as a twenty-four episode series, the home video release has grown from the initial first volume solicitation that we saw to an eight volume run. The show is getting the standard DVD and Blu-ray releases which will begin on August 2nd, 2014 and continue monthly through March 3rd, 2015. The DVD releases are priced at6,500 yen each while the Blu-ray releases are priced at 7,500 yen each with three episodes per volume.
The first volume has a few bonuses to it as we get the clean opening and closing as the on-disc extras while first press editions will get a twelve page booklet and the first original soundtrack.
The series is being produced by Satelight and it has a pretty interesting core trio that are designing the project. Junichi Sato is directing based on the scrpits by Mari Okada and mechanical designs by Shoji Kawamori. They’re working with Hideki Inoue who is adaptating the character designs from Onigusnso’s original designs while Takatoshi Hamano is doing sound direction. Hajime Sakita is doing the soundtrack while May’n will be doing the opening theme.
Plot concept: A distorted, endlessly black darkness. The location where the dark swallowed everything and took everything from us has become known as the Lightless Realm. Born there, as if they were mirror images of the despair and chaos humans felt, were aberrations. They were called Admonitions. An investigation of the Lightless Realm that eats away at the human psyche. Can a group of eight boys and girls gathered in an effort to combat the Admonitions see the light of the future beyond the Lightless Realm, while their past destinies and dangerous present intertwine in a complicated web?
[Source: M3 - Sono Kuroki Hagane]