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GKIDS release
October 17th Howl's Moving Castle Blu-ray/DVD
Howl's Moving Castle DVD
Kiki's Delivery Service Blu-ray/DVD
Kiki's Delivery Service DVD
My Neighbor Totoro Blu-ray/DVD
My Neighbor Totoro DVD
Ponyo Blu-ray/DVD
Ponyo DVD
Princess Mononoke Blu-ray/DVD
Princess Mononoke DVD
Spirited Away Blu-ray/DVD
Spirited Away DVD
October 31st Castle in the Sky Blu-ray/DVD
Castle in the Sky DVD
Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind Blu-ray/DVD
Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind DVD
November 21st Porco Rosso Blu-ray/DVD
Porco Rosso DVD
The Secret World of Arrietty Blu-ray/DVD
The Secret World of Arrietty DVD
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Akaname
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No more dubtitles for Kiki is reason enough for me to double dip.
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The Castle in the Sky entry says an additional English dub mix with synthesizer score. Does that mean we'll be getting the English dub with the orchestral score? And does anyone know if they are going to go with the edited dubs for Kiki's Delivery Service and Castle in the Sky?
I was waiting to see what the extras were going to be before I committed. I was hoping for the booklets like they did with Up on Poppy Hill. Seems like these movies are in better hands with GKids |
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Top Gun
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Ugh...I just picked up all of the Disney releases in the sales of several months ago, so I guess now I have to figure out if any of them have anything worth double-dipping for. I wouldn't be watching in Japanese anyway, so whether the subs are dubtitles or not doesn't affect me much, but I'm curious about what that additional audio track for Castle in the Sky entails. And also the "more faithful transfer" for Nausicaa: I'd always been under the impression that Disney's version was pretty damn good-looking.
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Crisha
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I will totally buy Kiki and Castle if they release the non-edited dub tracks (with the orchestral music). I avoided buying Disney's BDs because of those reasons. I would love to replace my old DVDs, but I'm not going to get rid of them until I have an equivalent on BD.
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WTK
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via Amazon (GKIDS):
- My Neighbors the Yamadas (Blu-ray / DVD Combo) - $29.95 - 1/16/18 - My Neighbors the Yamadas (DVD) - $19.96 - 1/16/18 - The Cat Returns (Blu-ray / DVD Combo) - $29.95 - 1/16/18 - The Cat Returns (DVD) - $19.96 - 1/16/18 - Whisper of the Heart (Blu-ray / DVD Combo) - $29.95 - 1/16/18 - Whisper of the Heart (DVD) - $19.96 - 1/16/18 |
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WTK
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^ via TRSI (special features: TBD)
My Neighbors the Yamadas - BD/DVD: https://www.rightstufanime.com/My-Neighbors-The-Yamadas-Blu-ray-DVD
- DVD: https://www.rightstufanime.com/My-Neighbors-The-Yamadas-DVD The Cat Returns - BD/DVD: https://www.rightstufanime.com/The-Cat-Returns-Blu-ray-DVD
- DVD: https://www.rightstufanime.com/The-Cat-Returns-DVD Whisper of the Heart - BD/DVD: https://www.rightstufanime.com/Whisper-of-the-Heart-Blu-ray-DVD
- DVD: https://www.rightstufanime.com/Whisper-of-the-Heart-DVD |
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GeorgeC
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If you're not interested in more accurate subtitles, then it's NOT worth it double-dipping. I can't imagine Disney screwed up the HD video on their BD's. Disney Blu ray releases tend to be A-quality disc releases with a few notable exceptions including Disney's own Sword in the Stone Blu ray which is reported to be execrable quality... They just didn't remaster that film at all for HD. Very, very cheap disc release which is sad but Disney has been inconsistent with its classic animated feature releases for the past 5 years at least. The Disney classics had MUCH better presentations with excellent extras on DVD in the past. There's a whole deleted scene in the Lilo & Stitch 2-disc DVD release that wasn't included on the Blu ray release of that movie. The big changes reported in online reviews are faster loading titles since GKids elected to use static menus instead of full-motion video like Disney did (which made the Disney discs load slower), more of the Japanese BD exclusives, and deletion of the more annoying Disney exclusives (including the intros where John Lasseter says Miyazaki is a close friend of his never mind the fact neither man speaks the other's native language!). Oh, and the GKids/Shout Factory BDs have 8-page booklets which the Disney releases didn't have. Shout Factory is the distributor for the new BDs. Universal Home Video distributed previous GKids releases of Ghibli films that weren't licensed or released in North America by Disney. I've noticed When Marnie Was There seems to be out of print now... It'll probably get a new print run of the BD in the future... I DID see the Marnie DVD release at Target today. I've heard the conspiracy crap (and the usual complains about dubs but the Disney dubs for Ghibli titles are generally leaps and bounds above the average for English dubs in the anime industry) but the fact is that Disney home video got lazy with the subtitles and just used the dub script for as the basis for the subs. The more accurate sub translation in the end is the reason to pick up the new discs UNLESS you missed one release and can't find it on the market. There's only a couple of titles that are really missing... The impression I got was there were a TON of unsold Blu rays which is why they got massively marked down over the summer. I picked up a few that I hadn't bought on sale at Best Buy as well so I have all the Disney Blu ray releases now. They went back up in price just before they got yanked off shelves. What happens to those copies, I don't know but the usual scalpers are going to find out quickly the savvy anime fans are NOT going to pay big bucks for the Disney editions with the GKids/Shout Factory releases coming out now. BUT, there is one problem with the new releases. They're just not showing up in stores! You can get them online but if you were counting on a brick store release, you're SOL. I checked at three big chain releases -- Best Buy first, Target second, Wal-Mart -- and they only had two of today's releases at Target: Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. That was it... You can buy the rest online. I was planning on only getting maybe three of them this week (probably Howl, Mononoke, and Totoro) but was disappointed that once again I couldn't get them in-store. They may have all the releases at FYE but I wouldn't count on it. FYE has been getting worse on street date releases for anime lately, too... Nowadays, you can't even find half the average week's anime releases in-store. It really has become a web-retail industry with some company's releases never showing up in-store unless you buy from an anime specialty store and those stores are farther and fewer between than even comic shops nowadays! i swear, a bunch of those business really survive doing the anime con circuit in additional to web retail. |
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I'm disappointed to hear the Disney releases, which I own, use dubtitles. I really can't justify double dipping to get better subtitles, even though I want them. Plus the booklets and more Japanese BD exclusives. Oh well.
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There is a couple of Ghibli movies I never got around to picking up on BD like Howls, Arrietty, The Cat Returns, Pom Poko, Tales from Earthsea and My Neighbors the Yamadas so I will be buying the GKids version of those. However, the only thing I will double or triple dip on (used to own original miramax DVD) is Princess Mononoke for the updated subtitles. I will gift my Disney BD copy to a family member.
Hmmm... Nausicaa - has a newer video transfer and no hard-subbed dub credits. Tempting with newer video quality, but I think I can live with the Disney copy unless its astonishingly better. Ponyo - they upgraded the quality of JP audio, but since its not a favorite I can again live with the Disney version. Castle in the Sky - now has the original synth soundtrack. Again I can live with the Disney version. Nothing else is tempting me to double/triple dip. At least so far on Amazon and a few other places some of the Ghiblis are starting with a cheaper street price than the Disney ones when those first came out. |
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via Amazon (GKIDS release):
- Pom Poko (Blu-ray / DVD Combo) - $29.95 - 2/6/18 - Pom Poko (DVD) - $19.96 - 2/6/18 - Tales From Earthsea (Blu-ray / DVD Combo) - $29.95 - 2/6/18 - Tales From Earthsea (DVD) - $19.96 - 2/6/18 |
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Gatherum
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I really wish GKids and Shout Factory would buy the rights to Grave of the Fireflies from Sentai and then proceed to release the entirety of the studio's main filmography in a collection--basically, the twenty feature films, plus Nausicaä and Ocean Waves. If they wanted to include their short films as supplements, that's fine, but the features are where it's at.
If they did that, I'd buy it. I like that they have a Miyazaki collection, but Miyazaki is not the only badass director at Ghibli. |
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GeorgeC
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Who knows how long Sentai has the license to Grave of the Fireflies?
The fact is that the DVD and Blu ray releases from CPM and Sentai for that film have been EXCELLENT, among the best of the Ghibli films released in the West. What I'm more disappointed to see is that alternate English dub tracks were NOT included with the Disney releases including the original English dubs for My Neighbor Totoro (which is excellent and should have been re-released by Disney), Kiki's Delivery Service (by most reports NOT so good), Castle in the Sky (pretty sure this was dubbed before Disney did their dub), and the alternate English done for Secret of Arriety done around the same time as the Disney dub. Apparently, GKids has not optioned the alternate dubs, either. The original Streamline dub for My Neighbor Totoro is available on the tens of thousands of VHS, DVD, and laserdisc copies distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Video before the Totoro license passed onto Disney. Disney didn't option Grave of the Fireflies for obvious reasons -- it didn't fit their family-friendly image. There were various reasons for passing on about 5 Ghibli features. The Ghibli shorts will probably never get released outside of the Ghibli museum anytime soon since they're used as a revenue source to support the museum's operation |
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GKIDS / Shout! Factory
via Amazon: - My Neighbor Totoro 30th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray / CD / Book) - $49.97 - 12/11/18
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