Thursday, 26 April 2007
Buy Tales of Earthsea on DVD!
Alright! Just found out that Studio Ghibli's latest animated film based on the amazing Earthsea novels by Ursula le Guinn will be released on DVD on the fourth of July in Japan with both an English and Japanese audio track option as well as English and Japanese subtitles! This regular edition can be preordered HERE.
As usual with Japanese DVDs and moreso anime releases, there will be a super deluxe DVD release for double the price with four DVDs featuring audio tracks in Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Korean and French (what, no Spanish?) and subtitles in French, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English and Traditional Chinese. This huge edition can be ordered HERE.
I was beginning to wonder if this film would ever be released as apparently there were licensing issues in the US over the English language version. Normally that wouldn't be a problem for a Japanese DVD release, but Ghibli releases all of their movies on bilingual DVDs in Japan. Very unusual, but very appreciated.
I didn't get around to seeing this film in it's theatrical release but Ghibli is Ghibli (even if it is a different director for this film than the previous hits) and it would be nice to have it in my collection.
Will let you know what I think in a few months!
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Welcome. My name's Brad and I'm about to start my fifth year in Tokyo, Japan though lately I've found that that defines me as badly as saying I'm from Sydney, Australia.
To be honest, I'm a little bit skeptical about it. As good as Ghibli is, I just can't handle another disappointment after the last Earthsea offering. Once bitten, twice shy, I guess.
Hey man! Yeah I've read a lot of bad reviews about it but still haven't seen it yet and was a huge fan of the books growing up thanks to my aunt who got me the whole collection when I was a kid.