Trigun Movie Blu-ray & DVD Bundles Manga

This year's anime film Trigun: Badlands Rumble, which premiered in Japan back in April, is trying to attract Christmas shoppers with the inclusion of a two-part manga in its Blu-ray and limited edition DVD versions - set for a December 15 release there. As detailed on the official website (via ANN), the bundled manga is titled Gekijoban Trigun Bangai-hen: Dodongo Kyodai Honeycombed Village no Ketto, and it was drawn by the franchise's original creator Yasuhiro Nightow.



"Was drawn", and not "will be drawn", because this Dodongo Brothers manga was already published in Shounen Gahousha's Young King Ours magazine, just ahead of the movie's premiere. As compensation for this outdated bonus, the home video package will be adorned with an original cover illustration drawn by Nightow, and it will also include storyboards for deleted scenes, interviews, trailers, commercials, and other videos.

A few months ago, FUNimation announced their license for the Trigun anime film, among their many other acquisitions revealed at Anime Expo 2010. But don't hold your breath for a North American Blu-ray / DVD release in time for this Christmas, since they plan to release it in theaters first. Which leaves the home video version for a 2011 release, at best.

However, in other anime-films-on-Blu-ray news, Right Stuf has begun listing all three Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex movies for a December 7, 2010 release in North America (namely The Laughing Man, Individual Eleven and Solid State Society). What's strange is that these same Blu-ray editions were reported last week for a December 22 release in Japan - two weeks later than their American release, it seems.