If you were lucky enough to receive money for your holiday gifts, you might be wondering what to do with it. Maybe you’d like to buy some Anime or Asian live-action entertainment?

Section 23 to the rescue! Their clients Switchblade Pictures and Sentai Filmworks have both released a DVD title each on January 12th, 2010. So what are these releases?

Sentai Filmworks have released an anime series named “HIDIMARI SKETCH SEASON 1 COLLECTION”, which is in Japanese audio with English subtitles. Below is a synopsis of the series:

For years, Yunos dreamed of attending Yamabuki Arts High School; but now that she’s been accepted, it means the scary prospect of moving away from her home and family for the first time! Fortunately, Yuno quickly learns that if her new neighbors at the eclectic Hidamari (Sunshine) Apartments aren’t technically family, at least the majority share the bond of being fellow art students. From second year students like Hiro and Sae, who try to behave like helpful older sisters (mostly successfully) to her hyperactive new neighbor, classmate and best friend Miyako (who has the scariest apartment ever), Yuno begins to build the support network she’ll need for dealing with strange characters like her oddly masculine Landlady, her cosplay obsessed home room teacher, her tooth-chattering Principal and all of the other odd denizens who inhabit her chosen world of art. It won’t be easy, and it won’t always be pretty, but with her friends at her back, Yuno’s going to reach for the stars in HIDAMARI SKETCH!

Switchblade Pictures have released a live-action double feature titled “Female Combatants Battle School / Demonic Heroine In Peril”. Here is another synopsis for the double feature:

First up, we’ve all seen hundreds of stories about the origins of both Superheroes and Supervillains, but what about the origins of the Supervillain’s MINIONS? At long last, the time has come to learn the secret story behind all those faceless, anonymous battle casualties! When a beautiful agent attempts to infiltrate the evil Dark Mist organization, she discovers just how hard (and frequently fatal) learning to be cannon fodder really is in FEMALE COMBATANTS BATTLE! Then, when a female assassin is sent out on her ultimate assignment: take out Trionger, a trio of semi-retired super-rangers in power armor (who may or may not have their own line of toys!) Unfortunately, she doesn’t count on becoming friends with Trionger’s unbelievably weird kid sidekick, thereby setting up a confrontation with her own malevolent masters in DEMONIC HEROINE IN PERIL!

Again, both of these releases came out on the 12th of January 2010. “Hidimari Sketch” is rated PG and will cost $39.98US, while “Female Combatants Battle School / Demonic Heroine In Peril Double Feature” is unrated and will cost $19.98US.