{"product_id":"ben-to-blu-ray-dvd","title":"Ben-To Blu-ray \u0026 DVD","description":"Every evening at supermarkets across Japan, a ritual takes place. When the closing-time staff member applies the half-price sticker to the remaining bento boxes, something is unleashed. The brawlers emerge — fighters who have dedicated themselves to the honor of claiming discounted food through combat. There are rules. You do not touch the bento before the sticker goes on. You fight fairly. You accept defeat. The strongest fighters carry titles: the Ice Witch, the Monarch, the Wizard. Into this world stumbles Yo Sato, a broke high school student who wanders into his local supermarket hungry and wakes up on the floor, beaten unconscious and surrounded by empty shelves, with no memory of what happened. He goes back the next day. He goes back every day. Gradually guided by the elegant Sen Yarizui — the Ice Witch herself, president of the Half-Priced Food Lovers Club — and surrounded by the eccentric Hana Oshiroi, his aggressive cousin Shaga, and a rotating cast of rivals with their own titles and personal codes, Sato discovers that the battle for half-priced bento is not about hunger. It is about pride.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nBen-To is a 12-episode action comedy series produced by David Production — the studio behind JoJo's Bizarre Adventure — directed by Shin Itagaki, and based on Asaura's light novel series published under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko imprint. It aired on Tokyo MX from October to December 2011 and occupies a genuinely singular niche: a series that plays its absurd premise with complete sincerity, delivering choreographed fight sequences of legitimate quality in a supermarket setting while maintaining warm character dynamics throughout. The English dub produced by FUNimation features Felecia Angelle, Tia Ballard, and Trina Nishimura. Released in North America by FUNimation on February 3, 2015 as both a Standard DVD Box Set and a Limited Edition Blu-ray + DVD Box Set with premium chipboard artbox.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNotable Staff \u0026amp; Voice Talent\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDirector:\u003c\/b\u003e Shin Itagaki (Magical Girl Raising Project)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSeries Composition:\u003c\/b\u003e Tatsuya Takahashi\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOriginal Light Novel:\u003c\/b\u003e Asaura (Dengeki Bunko label, ASCII Media Works, 9 volumes)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCharacter Design:\u003c\/b\u003e Kazunori Iwakura\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eStudio:\u003c\/b\u003e David Production (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Cells at Work)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMusic:\u003c\/b\u003e Masaru Yokoyama\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOpening Theme 1:\u003c\/b\u003e \"Live for Life ~Ookami-tachi no Yoru~\" by Manami\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOpening Theme 2:\u003c\/b\u003e \"TOUGH BUDDY\" by Manami\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEnding Theme:\u003c\/b\u003e \"Treasure\" by Aimi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJapanese Cast:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n- Hiro Shimono as Yo Sato\u003cbr\u003e\n- Mariya Ise as Sen Yarizui \/ Ice Witch\u003cbr\u003e\n- Iori Nomizu as Hana Oshiroi\u003cbr\u003e\n- Ayana Taketatsu as Ayame Shaga (Sword Art Online — voice of Leafa; High School DxD — Koneko)\u003cbr\u003e\n- Shizuka Ito as Ume Shiraume (High School DxD — Akeno Himejima)\u003cbr\u003e\n- Kana Asumi as Asebi Inoue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEnglish Dub Cast (FUNimation):\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n- Austin Tindle as Yo Sato\u003cbr\u003e\n- Felecia Angelle as Sen Yarizui \/ Ice Witch (Chaos;Child — Serika Onoe)\u003cbr\u003e\n- Tia Ballard as Hana Oshiroi\u003cbr\u003e\n- Trina Nishimura as Ayame Shaga (El Cazador de la Bruja — Nadie)\u003cbr\u003e\n- Kyle Phillips as additional cast\u003cbr\u003e\n- Matthew James as additional cast\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBlu-ray \/ DVD Features (Limited Edition Box Set)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n- All 12 Episodes — Complete Series (Blu-ray + DVD)\u003cbr\u003e\n- Premium Chipboard Artbox\u003cbr\u003e\n- Episode Commentaries (Episodes 3 \u0026amp; 7)\u003cbr\u003e\n- \"Ben-To Brawl\" Live Action Parody\u003cbr\u003e\n- Textless Opening Songs (x2)\u003cbr\u003e\n- Textless Closing Song\u003cbr\u003e\n- U.S. Trailer\u003cbr\u003e\n- FUNimation Previews\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSpoken Languages:\u003c\/b\u003e English \u0026amp; Japanese Audio, English Subtitles\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEdition Details\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJapanese Title:\u003c\/b\u003e べん図 (Ben-To)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRuntime:\u003c\/b\u003e ~300 Minutes (Complete Series, 12 Episodes)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDirector:\u003c\/b\u003e Shin Itagaki\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBlu-ray + DVD Release Year:\u003c\/b\u003e 2015 (U.S. Limited Edition Box Set, February 3 — FUNimation)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOriginal Broadcast Date (Japan):\u003c\/b\u003e October 8 – December 24, 2011 (Tokyo MX)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FUNimation Entertainment\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRating:\u003c\/b\u003e 17+\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRegion:\u003c\/b\u003e Region A \/ Region 1 (North America)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Limited Edition includes premium chipboard artbox. Standard DVD Box Set also available (same release date).\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGenre:\u003c\/b\u003e Action, Comedy\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThemes:\u003c\/b\u003e Supermarket Brawlers, Half-Price Bento Code of Honor, Fighter Titles and Rivalries, David Production Early Work, Dengeki Bunko Adaptation\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMedia assumed VG+ unless otherwise noted.","brand":"Sentai Filmworks","offers":[{"title":"New \/ Sealed","offer_id":42540090982485,"sku":null,"price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/7673\/7365\/files\/51BaTFewM7L.jpg?v=1779995079","url":"https:\/\/hifilofi.shop\/products\/ben-to-blu-ray-dvd","provider":"HiFi LoFi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}