Section23 Films releases Skull Man DVD Collection

The American distributor, Section23 Films, released Skull Man Complete Collection on DVD from Sentai Filmworks this week.

Skull Man is an adaptation based on the 70s Shonen Magazine manga by Shotaro Ishinomori of Kamen Rider fame. Since its release, the manga has been an enduring and popular franchise with millions of copies sold in Japan. As one of manga's first anti-heroes, the story revolves around the masked character Skull Man, and his murderous rampage while seeking revenge for the death of his parents.

The anime was produced by the highly recognized studio Bones (Halo Legends, Fullmetal Alchemist) with Takeshi Mori (Gunsmith Cats, Vandread, Otaku no Video) as the series director.

SYNOPSIS: Otomo City: where freedom and justice have atrophied to the bone; where conspiracy rules the day and death stalks the night… Death in the form of the Skull Man, a literal Grim Reaper whose skeletal grin presages grisly mayhem and murder, even to the monstrous mutants that haunt the city’s underworlds! Now, to investigate a bizarre slaying, journalist Minagami Hayato and photographer Kiriko Mamiya must stalk this ultimate predator, through a festering cadaver of a city where the corruption flows in rivers as deep and foul as the sins of the reigning elite, and unearth a secret so shocking that an entire city has been turned into a tomb to contain! In a nightmarish necropolis where nothing is as it seems, vengeance comes in the form of a living Death’s-Head in SKULL MAN – The Complete Collection!

Title: SKULL MAN COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 2/2/2010
Format: DVD
Special Features: Clean Opening Animation, Clean Closing Animation, Skull Man Japanese Promos
SRP: $39.98