With a new Professor Layton game on the way, now is a great time to get reacquainted with the crime-solving sleuth. One way to do just that is to watch the animated film Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva. The movie originally released in the United States back in 2011, but it finally made its way to Blu-ray in May. Amazon is offering a great discount on Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva that drops the price of the recently released Blu-ray to only $18.71 (was $25).
The original DVD release is out of print and sells for higher prices than the Blu-ray, even in preowned condition.
$18.71 (was $25)
The new Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva Blu-ray includes both the original Japanese language track and its English dub. That includes Christopher Robin Miller as Professor Layton–a role that he first took up with the original Nintendo games–and several other familiar voices from the games.
While the film has been available on streaming platforms before, this is the first time that it has received a Blu-ray release in the US. Along with the 100-minute film, you’ll get the original trailers as extras.
For those unfamiliar, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva is the first and only animated feature based on the popular Level-5 video game series. In terms of series chronology, Eternal Diva’s story falls between the Last Specter and Miracle Mask.
“Shortly after taking the young Luke under his wing, the world-famous Professor Layton finds himself humming along to the tune of an age-old mystery,” the official plot synopsis for the film reads. “When an old student calls upon the professor for help, his investigation leads him to a night at the opera. But what starts off as a riveting night of song is quickly transposed into a game of eternal life or death. Can Layton and Luke solve this deadly puzzle in time? Or is a devious dissonance lying in wait?”
If you’re interested in more animated adaptations of popular video game series, you’ll want to check out Ace Attorney: Complete Season 1 – Essentials on Blu-ray, which is on sale for $26 at Amazon (was $35). Based on Capcom’s popular series of courtroom adventure games, the Ace Attorney anime is set in the early days of lawyer Phoenix Wright’s legal career and sees him slowly learn what it means to be a defender of justice. All 13 episodes from the first season are included on this Blu-ray, alongside clean credit sequences, trailers, and outtakes.
