You can see the individual elements used for the animation, in the backgrounds and characters, and they’re gorgeous things to behold. So if you slept on picking up the Disney editions (which are now out of print, obviously), you don’t have to fret too much.Įach of these films looks and sounds so crisp and clear in these Blu-ray editions, you’ll forget any other version of you’ve seen. That represents half of Miyazaki’s whole output, and two weeks later, on October 31, you can get your hands on two of Miyazaki’s earliest films, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and Castle in the Sky. On October 17 alone, they’re releasing (click individual titles for full reviews) My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Ponyo. Shout! is itself getting into the anime game with the theatrical distribution of this year’s gorgeous In This Corner of the World, and it’s brought its always stellar extras game to these releases, where applicable.Īs I said, GKIDS and Shout! are coming in hot right out of the gate. Once the company obtained the license for the entirety of Studio Ghibli’s back catalog, it paired with Shout Factory! for distribution. GKIDS clearly cares about these movies and about animation as a legitimate storytelling art form. for the first time, commissioning a new English language dub featuring Daisy Ridley among others. GKIDS had already released several newer Ghibli films on Blu-ray, including Isao Takahata‘s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s When Marnie Was There, and was instrumental in bringing Takahata’s beautiful Only Yesterday to the U.S. GKIDS now holds the license for Studio Ghibli movies, and they’re wasting no time establishing theirs as the brand for anime, releasing eight Miyazaki movies this month alone. And even though we now know that’s not the case (yay!), Miyazaki’s still is a catalog worth revisiting time and time again. This comprehensive look was inspired in part due to the fact that, like everyone else, including the filmmaker himself, I assumed he was done making movies. It’s been three years since I did my big re-watch and essay series Miyazaki Masterclass for Nerdist, in which I took an in-depth look at each of director Hayao Miyazaki‘s 11 feature films.
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