Aim for the Top! Blu-ray Box Standard Edition, packed with special features, goes on sale today! Includes illustration card!

Hideaki Anno's first commercial film, "Aim for the Top! Blu-ray Box Standard Edition of "Aim for the Top 2! The bonus illustrations have also been released.

Aim for the Top! is GAINAX's first OVA released in 1988 and the first commercial work directed by Hideaki Anno. The film brought together a group of brilliant creators, including Shinji Higuchi for storyboarding, Haruhiko Mikimoto for character planning, and Kazutaka Miyatake of Studio Nue for mechanical design.

The film's profound drama, sci-fi minded setting, and witty parody spirit combined at a high level to move viewers.

The sequel, "Aim for the Top 2!" was created by Kazuya Tsurumaki, director of "Furikuri," and was originally conceived and directed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, who has taken over the character designing duties while maintaining the elements of the previous work, including science fiction, robots, beautiful girls, and parody.

The buster machine by Izuna Yoshitsune and the stage setting by okama beautifully depict the 21st century's "Top! The director of the previous film, Hideaki Anno, also provided storyboards and supervised the production of the film.

This time, "Aim for the Top! Blu-ray Box Standard Edition contains all six episodes on two Blu-ray discs. In addition to the set material and interview footage, a newly illustrated card will be included.

Purchase Benefits
The "Aim for the Top" Blu-ray Box Standard Edition and "Aim for the Top" Blu-ray Box Standard Edition are available at participating stores!　Blu-ray Box Standard Edition" and "Aim for the Top!
The offer will end when all the cards are gone.

For more information, please visit the "Aim for the Top! Series Information Site: #
The gift will be given to the purchaser at the time of purchase.

Product Information] "Aim for the Top! 　Blu-ray Box Standard Edition

Blu-ray Box Standard Edition" [Product Information] "Aim for the Top!　Blu-ray Box Standard Edition

Price: 10,780 yen (tax included)
Release date: February 24, 2023
Running time: 341 minutes (160 minutes of feature film + 181 minutes of video extras)
<Specs
Full-length BD
Linear PCM (stereo), Dolby TrueHD (5.1ch) for some extras / AVC / 50G x 1 disc + 25G x 1 disc / 4:3 <1080p High Definition, some 1080i High Definition>, some 16:9 <1080p High Definition, some 1080i High Definition
Special BD
Linear PCM (stereo)/AVC/50G x 1 disc/4:3<1080i High Definition, some 1080p High Definition

<Included extras
Illustration card by Kazutaka Miyatake (Studio Nue)
<Bonus DISC (BD)
1) GUNBUSTER PERFECT GUIDE bonus
(2) Original version of the final episode "No Trimming
(3) Episode 4 Avant title not-trimming version
(4) Simplified telecine video for AR of the 5th episode
(5) Video footage from the video magazine "DENGEI TEIKOKU" (6) VHD magazine "ANIME VISION
(6) Video footage from VHD magazine "Anime Vision
(7) Collection of setting materials (still images)

Video extras:
Science Lecture (2 sessions)
Harumi & Yumiko's Good Morning Oki Woman!
AD.2032.7.23 Battle space cosmic battle space an orbit of Halley's comet
Sizzler Project
Science Lecture (4 lectures), New Science Lecture (2 lectures)
PV collection (video trailer (July 1988), video trailer (November 1988), in-store trailer (1989), etc.)

<Story.
The year is 2015. In the year 2015, the "Rukusuon" fleet sailing in the Cygnus constellation was annihilated by an attack of a mysterious space monster.
Fifteen years later, Okinawa Women's Space High School, a space pilot training school, was established in Okinawa to prepare for the attack of the space monster. Among the students was Takaya Noriko, daughter of the captain of the "Rukusuon".
One day, I will become a space pilot and go to space where my father was!
Noriko is training hard under a strict coach, and her talents are rapidly being displayed! Now, the curtain rises on a grueling and arduous battle to become the top pilot and protect the Earth...!

Product Information] "Aim for the Top 2!

Blu-ray Box Standard Edition

Price: 10,780 yen (tax included)
Release date: February 24, 2023
Running time: 302 minutes (173 minutes of feature film + 129 minutes of video extras)
Distributor: Namco Bandai Filmworks Inc.

<Specs
Full-length BD
Dolby TrueHD (5.1ch), Linear PCM (stereo) / AVC / 50G x 1 disc + 25G x 1 disc / 16:9 <1080p High Definition
Special BD
Linear PCM (stereo), some Dolby TrueHD (5.1ch)/AVC/50G x 1 disc/16:9<1080i High Definition, some 1080p High Definition>, some 4:3<1080i High Definition& gt;" <Included extras

<Included bonus
Illustration card by Buster Machine Designer, Izu Yonotsune
Special DISC (BD)
1) ARCHIVE OF THE STAFF/CAST INTERVIEW
in GAINAX (Cast: Yukari Fukui)
3) "DIEBUSTER TV" Fraternity News (Appearance: Yukari Fukui and others)
　Interview with Kazuya Tsurumaki - Making of DIEBUSTER
　Interview with Yoji Enokido - Making of DIEBUSTER
4) Non-credit OP/ED
(5) Collection of TV commercials
(6) Collection of setting materials (still images included)
⑦Official Site Original Contents Novel & Manga (Still images included)

Video special features:
Science Lecture (3 times)
Audio bonus:
Audio Commentary
Staff commentary (6 episodes) Kazuya Tsurumaki/Yoji Enokido/Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Cast commentary (6 episodes, Nono: Yukari Fukui, Lark: Maaya Sakamoto, Chico: Miyuki Sawashiro, Nicola: Mitsuo Iwata, Cassio: Takumi Yamazaki)

<Story
The war between mankind and space monsters is still going on.... The space monsters had taken over a frontier region of the solar system and continued their invasion of the earth.
One day, a young girl named Nono from a snowy mountain village comes to town, yearning to become a space pilot. Nono meets Lark, a buster machine pilot with outstanding "topless" abilities. A new history began on this day!
The antagonism between the "Fraternity", a boys' and girls' squadron to intercept space monsters, and the Imperial Space Force. The dreams, hopes, challenges, and battles of each girl. The history of the approaching Space Monster Army and the survival of the human race is once again set in motion!

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