The Blu-ray home media release for the 2001-2002 Alien Nine OVA series will arrive on June 9, 2026 from AnimEigo and MediaOCD. A home media release date for the title was first announced in August 2025.
The OVA series will be available for the first time in HD and features a new AstroRes restoration and upscale.
The region-free Blu-ray disc will contain all four OVA episodes and include both the original Japanese language version with English subtitles and an English dub. Other features include:
• Clean opening and ending animation
• Original English dub cast interview
• Original promos
• Dubbing diary
• Music clip
• Staff interview
• “Steps to Alien Fighters” featurette with Japanese voice cast
• Executive producer Taro Maki interview
Jiro Fujimoto directed the first episode of Alien Nine, while Yasuhiro Irie directed episodes 2-4. Sadayuki Murai was the series composer and J.C.Staff was the animation production company.
The science fiction manga series by Hitoshi Tomizawa was serialized in Akita Shoten’s Young Champion magazine from June 9, 1998 to August 24, 1999. Three total tankobon volumes were released in Japan.
The manga was followed by the single volume manga sequel Alien Nine Emulators in 2002 and the self-published doujinshi Alien Nine Next, which was released between 2015 and 2016.
AnimEigo describes the main synopsis of Alien Nine as:
Yuri is totally bummed. She just started 6th grade and has been elected to capture and eliminate the aliens that are constantly invading the school…maybe this job wouldn’t be too bad, except it includes wearing gross symbiotic alien helmets that survive by eating the waste material produced from its host body. Yuck! Yuri may be scared of her new position, but she isn’t alone. To help her is the energetic Kasumi and the serious Kumi who both volunteered for their positions in this strange alien party. But why would the school send 6th graders to fight the alien menace? And will their Borgs be enough to help them win?!
Pre-orders for the Alien Nine Blu-ray are now available and will include an exclusive slipcover if it is ordered on MediaOCD’s official online store.
Source: press release