PSA

[laceblade]

Now that Ponyo has been released on DVD here in the US, Disney has re-released My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Castle in the Sky, all on 2-disc special edition DVDs. The latter three have been out of print for a couple of years, I think.

They should be available most places; I scored My Neighbor Totoro last night at Target, and it was very difficult not to grab Kiki's Delivery Service and Ponyo all at once.

ETA: If you were planning on buying Ponyo, Amazon has a Studio Ghibli movie running from now until June 2. I recommend everything listed except for The Cat Returns, which wasn't very good.

Comments

[raanve]

Do these new editions also have Japanese language tracks? My copy of Totoro is an older one with just the English dub. :/ (I think my copy of Kiki's has Japanese? I could get up and go look, but I am LAZY.)

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Japanese language tracks are available.

The My Neighbor Totoro dub on the discs is the more recent one with Dakota Fanning and her younger sister, which I thought was pretty good.

[raanve]

Oh, cool. Time to replace mine, then. The one we have is the older dub and it's really not good, but it's sufficient for my best friends' 3-yr-old son (who loves Totoro & Kiki both).

[wrdnrd]

Hmm, i'm not sure they've been out of print. We bought all 3 of those (Totoro, Kiki, Laputa) fairly recently. I'm sure we got "Castle in the Sky" within the past 12 months. And i regularly see all 3 both at the neighborhood video store and at Kinokuniya down in Chinatown. Maybe Disney just updated all of the packaging and added new features?

I am shocked -- shocked, i say! -- that you didn't just grab all of them at once.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

It's possible that's all that happened. I've been watching Amazon.com and RightStuf.com like a hawk, though, and Amazon kept saying "Item currently unavailable," whereas other Ghibli films did not.

Either way....they are not now!

[nylorac15.livejournal.com]

Yay! I didn't know Ponyo was out. I should pick it up. It was good stuff. Tina Fey so needs to do more voice acting.

I actually liked The Cat Returns, but only as a silly adventure movie perfect for kids. It's still a good bit below the typical Ghibli level of quality.

[jume.livejournal.com]

awesome:D I noticed at christmas that Totoro et al were only available as [really expensive] new items, so this is a prime opportunity for me :D

[jume.livejournal.com]

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