The King of Magical Beasts seeks an audience once more when Clevatess Season 1 comes to Blu-ray™ on August 18 from Crunchyroll. Packed with a royal bounty’s worth of special features, fans can look forward to diving deeper into the lore of Clevatess with a director interview, a special effects breakdown of Chapter 1 with the production team, a behind-the-scenes look at the English dub cast, and more.
Directed by Kiyotaka Taguchi, with a series composition written by Keigo Koyanagi (The Rising of The Shield Hero), Clevatess is produced by studio Lay-duce (Magi: Adventure of Sinbad). Nominated for Best New Series at this year’s 10th Annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards, the dark fantasy series’s first season streamed episodes weekly on Crunchyroll in July through September 2025. Clevatess Season 2 will begin streaming new episodes weekly on Crunchyroll this July.
Clevatess Season 1
One of the Lords of Dark Beasts, Clevatess’s reign shatters when he revives a hero he personally slayed and adopts an orphaned humanoid baby—the last hope to save a dying world. Now bound together, what fate awaits this unlikely trio?
Clevatess Season 1 – Special Features
- Making-of Chapter 1 Special Effects – Director’s Cut
- Director’s Interview with Shinji Higuchi (Shin Godzilla)
- Director’s Interview with Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell)
- Behind-the-Scenes English Dub Recording
- Promo Videos
- Web Previews
- Textless Opening and Ending Songs
One Piece Season 14 Voyage 10 (Episodes 1001–1012) will also arrive on August 18 in a Blu-ray and DVD combo pack, which will feature special commissioned box art and includes Barto’s Secret Room: Special Episode 1.
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved – The Movie and Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 4 are also being released on Blu-ray on August 11.
Lastly, Crunchyroll will now be releasing Dragon Ball DAIMA on Blu-ray on August 11, 2026, which was previously set for a March 3, 2026 street date. The anime series was created in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Dragon Ball’s manga serialization, and the Dragon Ball DAIMA Blu-ray release will mark the 40th anniversary of the Dragon Ball anime series.
Check out the full calendar of home entertainment offerings coming to North America in August 2026 from Crunchyroll below. Everything is available to pre-order through the Crunchyroll Store, along with more physical media offerings. (Click the links for full details and specs for each title.)
August 11, 2026
- Dragon Ball DAIMA – The Complete Season – Limited Edition – Blu-ray
- Dragon Ball DAIMA – The Complete Season – Blu-ray
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved – The Movie – Blu-ray
- Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 4 – Blu-ray
August 18, 2026
- Clevatess Season 1 – Blu-ray
- One Piece Season 14 Voyage 10 – Blu-ray/DVD Combo
Source: Press Release
