Kaleido Star 20th Anniversary Blu-ray Box + Radio CD

The Amazing Blu-ray Box returns at a special price. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its television broadcast, the popular anime Kaleido Star, with its devoted fans, returns in an affordable box containing all 51 television episodes and all three OVA works. "There is nothing you cannot do if you try!" Gracefully and beautifully, she wants to soar higher. This is a youthful success story full of sweat and tears. Junichi Sato, known for popular works including Sailor Moon, Ojamajo Doremi and Sgt. Frog, conceived and directed the series. All 51 episodes and three OVAs are collected together at an accessible price. A newly recorded Kaleido Star: Sora and Layla's Amazing Something radio CD commemorates this release. Recorded to celebrate the Blu-ray box and twenty years of the series, it features Sora Naegino's voice actress Ryo Hirohashi, Layla's voice actress Sayaka Ohara, director Junichi Sato and other staff from the original production.

Story Kaleido Stage is a world-famous entertainment show, neither circus, musical nor magic show. The heroine Sora Naegino is sixteen. Inspired by her memories of seeing Kaleido Stage as a child with her now-deceased parents, she travels alone from Japan to America to audition. After overcoming hardship, Sora is admitted to the company. With her determination never to give up and her natural stage presence, amid friendships and conflicts with her companions, she faces every trial in pursuit of becoming the stage's leading performer, a Kaleido Star.

Programme contents All 51 television episodes: Kaleido Star, 26 episodes, and Kaleido Star: New Wings, 25 episodes. All three OVA works: Kaleido Star: New Wings — EXTRA STAGE, The Amazing Princess Who Doesn't Smile; Kaleido Star: Legend of Phoenix — The Layla Hamilton Story; and Kaleido Star: Good da yo! Good!, containing May Wong's Shining Wonderful Cooking!!, An Amazing Challenge with the Diabolo, and Marion: Let's Play with Jonathan, Oh, Oh, Oh!

Packaging and enclosed extra A three-sided box. The newly recorded twentieth-anniversary radio CD, Kaleido Star: Sora and Layla's Amazing Something, is enclosed. Retailer-exclusive gifts are excluded.

Video extras A collection of Kaleido Star television commercials and creditless opening and ending sequences: TAKE IT SHAKE IT, Yakusoku no Basho e (To the Promised Place), real identity, Boku wa Koko ni Iru (I Am Here), Tattoo Kiss, escape, and Yakusoku no Basho e, episode 51 version.

Audio extras Commentary for episodes 27 and 28, An Amazing Prologue to Becoming a Star, parts one and two, with Ryo Hirohashi, Sayaka Ohara, Junichi Sato and Toyo Ikeda. Commentary for Kaleido Star: Legend of Phoenix — The Layla Hamilton Story, with Ryo Hirohashi, Sayaka Ohara, Fumitoshi Oizaki and Toyo Ikeda.

Publisher notes The video and audio extras are the same as those included in the previously released Kaleido Star: Tenth-Year Amazing Blu-ray Box Deluxe Edition, and Regular Edition.