While the summer box office season kicks into high gear this week, there’s relatively little happening on the home entertainment front save for the release of the latest seasons of Orange Is the New Black, and Inside Amy Schumer, plus a new Blu-ray of the 2012 Simon Pegg horror/comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything, as well as the first anime feature film ever, a Disney-influenced 74 minute exercise in anthropomorphic propaganda.

TV on DVD

This week’s top TV release is the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black: Season 4 (Lionsgate, 778 min., $34.98, BD $34.97), the latest season of the groundbreaking women’s prison series, which takes on the grotesque “private prison” scam in which privately-operated, for-profit prisons gorge from the public trough with the aid of brain-dead political ideologues.

For those looking for more humorous, though no less raunchy entertainment, there is the Comedy Central sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer: Season 4 (Comedy Central, 182 min, $22.98).

Comedy of a bit darker nature can be found in the HBO series Divorce: The Complete 1st Season (HBO, $19.98, BD $24.98), which stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church in a slice-of-life comedy that is not without some black humor.

Vintage TV releases include the 1980s space alien puppet comedy Alf: The Complete Collector’s DVD Edition (Lionsgate, 2,280 min., $54.98); the 1960s/70s Raymond Burr detective series Ironside: Season 3 (Shout Factory, 1275 min.,$44.99); all 194 episodes of the 1967-1975 CBS private detective series Mannix: The Complete Series (Paramount, $129.98); the 1970s police procedural The Streets of San Francisco: The Complete Series (Paramount, $89.98); and the 1990s sitcom The Wayans Brothers: The Complete 2nd Season (Warner Bros., 493 min., $29.99).

This week’s only new overseas TV offering is a good one, the Australian comedy/drama Rake: Series 1 (Acorn Media, 450 min., $$39.99), a superior legal show about a brilliant barrister with some serious self-destructive tendencies (think House meets Perry Mason).

Theatrical Movies

After a few weeks with major releases, there’s not much new this week, unless your taste runs to the kinky excesses of Fifty Shades Darker (Universal, “R” in theaters, but “Unrated” in the more explicit disc edition, 500 min., $29.98, BD $34.98), the second film based on the badly written international publishing phenomenon.

A better bet, at least for Simon Pegg fans, is the 2012 British horror comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything (Shout Factory, “R,” 100 min., BD/DVD Combo $29.99), an uneven, but at times amusing black comedy about an erstwhile children’s author (Pegg), who becomes obsessed with murder and murdering.  Now available here on Blu-ray.

Anime

It’s a light week for anime releases, but those who enjoy anime sports sagas might want to check out theFree! Iwatobi Swim Club: Season 1 Collection (Funimation, 300 min., BD/DVD Combo $64.95, Ltd. Ed. $69.98), which collects the 12-episode first season of the sports/slice-of-high-school life anime produced by Kyoto Animation and based on the light novel High Speed! about high school boys who form a swim club and engage in competition.  The Free! TV anime was simulcast on Crunchyroll, which is releasing the series in conjunction with Funimation.

Those who are interested in anime should be sure and catch Momotaro: Sacred Sailors (Funimation, 90 min., Subtitles Only, BD $34.95), the first animated feature film produced in Japan. Directed by Mitsuyo Sei in 1944 at the behest of the Japanese Naval Ministry, the feature-length (74 minutes) Momotaro: Sacred Sailors is a sequel to the 37-minute Momotaro: Sea Eagles with its depiction of Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective.  Seo was shown Fantasia before making the film, and he produced a very interesting piece of Disney-esque propaganda utilizing the Japanese folk character “momotaro” (“peachboy”) and a bunch of anthropomorphized companions, who successfully invade and conquer the Celebes. A chilling coda (at least from the U.S. perspective) shows children pretending to parachute into an outline of the United States scratched into the ground.  An added bonus to this release is Kenzo Masaoka’s 1943 short film “Kumo to Tulip”, “Spider & Tulip,” which Animage Magazine voted the fourth best anime production of all time.