Ghibli goes Blu-ray

[Chris Beveridge]

Waiting on some translation for specifics, but if the local Japanese-reading folks want to take a gander and provide some interepretation:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/do...0313/buena.htm

Official site in English: http://www.iblard.com/english/

From quick conversations, this isn't a "Ghibli movie" in the sense of Howl's or Mononoke, but it's perfect for HD. Look at some of the pics to see why the higher resolution will make this look stunning.

[u_nick]

Babelfish isnt perfect, but I like this part in the title:

Blu-ray Disc conversion of スタジオジブリ work July 4th start
- 1st feature "イバラード time". ブエナ "it ended format war",

Whatever this site is saying, i'm guessing something about a new release for whatever that is pictured there in the article, it can only mean good news for anime/animation fans.

Hopefully Disney follws suit quickly, and we get some of the older/current stuff as soon as possible.

[JTK]

Nice!

[hyperdine]

This would be sweet news. I'm so glad Japan and the US are in the same region!

[Rustmonsteru]

Iblard's the name of the flick... Okay, when I babelfished the page and it left
"Ibarudo" all over the page in Katakana I had no idea what was going on.

[shido]

Originally Posted by u_nick

Babelfish isnt perfect, but I like this part in the title:



Whatever this site is saying, i'm guessing something about a new release for whatever that is pictured there in the article, it can only mean good news for anime/animation fans.

Hopefully Disney follws suit quickly, and we get some of the older/current stuff as soon as possible.

My Japanaese isn't that great, but according to the part of the article you pointed out in babelfish, the presenter was making a reference to the BCN rankings that showed BD players accounted for 95% of the hi-def players sold in February. Not including the million units of PS3 that shipped out.

[DaveFi]

I think there's more of a chance we'll get Sony's Paprika before we get Disney to release Ghibli titles.

Here's hoping anyways...

[u_nick]

From animeondvd:

http://www.animeondvd.com/news/news.php?news_view=11433

Possibly making the choice of a high definition format a bit easier for some, a new article at Watch Impress talks about Ghibli bringing the title Iblard Jikan out on Blu-ray. Classified as an OVA though some contention exists about what the show actually is, it isn't what's considered an actual Ghibli movie but it is a very stylized and beautiful looking piece. With distribution of Ghibli's movies done by Buena Vista Japan who is exclusively on the Blu-ray side, this is a potential first bow of Ghibli titles in high definition home media.

[iceman]

That's Chris' site lol

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/do...13/buena06.jpg