My Life In Fandom: "Metal Armor Dragonar" Gets A Blu-Ray Release (In Japan)

Coming next year to stores across glorious Nippon:

Metal Armor Dragonar is one of the also-rans in the early days of Peak Anime. It was a Real Robot show that nonetheless showed the Super Robot roots via its aesthetics and certain narrative tropes, and while its narrative is by no means ground-breaking it is solid and audiences were sufficiently entertained to consider it a successful production.

In short, it was good enough to fill the gap between tentpole offers, and dedicated genre fans decided to included it in the canon of mecha shows worthy of remembrance (because not all of them are).

Thus is it not surprising to see Dragonar get a Blu-Ray release in Japan now. The technology is sufficiently mature that production costs are cheap enough for a commemorative edition like this, same as what happened a few years ago for Panzer World Galient. The only real questions that remain are (a) will this be subtitled and sent Westward, and (b) will it be made available for streaming?

Not that I have any problem dropping Captain Harlock a line asking him to keep a lookout for it, but others do, and furthermore we are more likely to see more like this if sales surpass expectations. In short, I'd like to give them money for physical product, and I think a lot of you would too. Therefore I hope that Rightstuf, Discotek, or Sentai Filmworks picks this up and gives it the quality release we'd love to pay good money for.