The ’90s Darkstalkers Animated TV Series Is Getting Resurrected With A New Blu-Ray Release

During the 1990s, a number of legendary fighting games received their own sanctioned cartoon adaptations—Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat among them. One of the more unexpected small-screen ventures was the cult-favorite Capcom brawler, Darkstalkers. Long absent from home video, the animated saga is now set to return in HD thanks to distributor Discotek. The entire show will arrive on Blu-ray October 28. If you’d like to secure this obscure bit of Darkstalkers lore, you can reserve your copy of Darkstalkers: The Complete Series on Blu-ray for $32 (originally $40) at Amazon. Orders are likewise open over at Crunchyroll’s store, priced at $40.

Darkstalkers: The Complete Series Special Features

• Series trailer
• Commentary tracks
• Meme compilation video
• Promotional bumpers and credits

Loosely inspired by the video-game universe, Darkstalkers chronicled the ceaseless clash among supernatural beings. The vampire king Dimitri spearheaded an onslaught of darkness on behalf of the cosmic entity Pyron. A band of Night Warriors—joined by a lone human—stood as humanity’s final bulwark against Pyron’s dreadful horde.

Darkstalkers: The Complete OVA Collection – Special Features

• Original & remastered trailers and TV spots
• Game-based promotional reels for various Dark Stalkers titles
• Credit-free epilogue
• Textless ending
• Alternate Japanese end-credit roll
• Retro English opening & closing sequences
• “The Trouble Man” music clip
• Gallery of still artwork

If classic anime on Blu-ray is your jam, you can see everything Discotek has put out. A headline forthcoming set is Mega Man: The Complete Series—all 27 episodes from the 1994–96 two-season run—arriving to Blu-ray ahead of schedule. Preorders are up for $50 on Amazon or $40 over at Crunchyroll. Release day is October 28, packed with archival commercials and fresh commentary from Ian James Corlett, Mega Man’s original English voice.

Fancy some cheese? Street Fighter: The Animated Series sees a kitschy ‘90s take on Capcom’s brawlers landing on Blu-ray with commentaries hosted by prominent FGC faces such as Matt McMuscles and Maximillian Dood. On top of that, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie arrives on 4K Blu-ray loaded with clean credits, vintage promos, production sketches, an isolated score, and multiple cuts in both English and Japanese.

Sega aficionados can grab all 78 episodes of Sonic X on Blu-ray—either in its original Japanese form or the localized English dub—plus the feature-length Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, just in time for the next Layton game. Below we’ve rattled off even more video-game-based anime now on Blu-ray.

More Game-Based Anime to Grab on Blu-ray

Extra Discotek HD discs inspired by games

• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog ‑ Entire Run — $39 ($60)
• Darkstalkers: Entire Animated Saga — $40 | Arrives October 28
• Darkstalkers: Full OVA Collection — $24 ($30)
• Digimon Adventure: The Full Series — $64 ($80)
• Digimon Adventure 02 ‑ Entire Run — $64 ($80)
• Digimon: The Movies 1-3 Collection — $19.47 ($24)
• Fatal Fury Compilation — $24 ($30)
• Fist of the North Star: Full Series — $63 ($90)
• Fist of the North Star: The Feature Film — $24 ($30)
• Fist of the North Star: Kenshiro’s Chronicle — $30
• Fist of the North Star: Raoh’s Tale — $30
• Mega Man: The Complete Series — $50 | Arrives October 28
• Monster Rancher: The Complete Series — $48 ($60)
• Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva — $16.22 ($25)
• Sonic X: Full Series (English Track) — $45.47
• Sonic X: Full Series (Japanese Track) — $42.49
• Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie in 4K — $28
• Street Fighter: The Animated Series — $47 ($50)
• Virtua Fighter: The Animated Series — Sold out

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