Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)

[chronoclast]

Originally Posted by celticmoon

So I bought this along with the Grave of the Fireflies Blu-ray a couple of months ago, and finally watched it yesterday. I'm fluent in Japanese, but I typically buy the localized editions for Japanese movies (if available) due to their much more reasonable price point. However, it seemed like with this release, the only option when watching with the Japanese audio track is to have English subtitles there... Is there really no way to watch it in Japanese with the English subtitles turned off? I've never seen a Blu-ray like this where there weren't separate audio track and subtitle options.

And I'm wondering if all Sentai Flimworks Blus are like this.... I mean, it's not a deal breaker, but the subtitles are just so distracting.

While other companies' BDs have locked subtitles, so far none of Sentai's BDs have them and your report is the first I've seen that Children Who Chase's subtitles are locked. This would be their first. This thread has a list of all affected US BDs.

I haven't bought this yet so I can't check myself. You've tried switching subtitles on the fly and it won't work right? I assume the menu only lets you switch the audio track?

Locked subtitles don't matter to me at all because I need them but I do like to keep track of the restrictions that the Japanese licensors enforce on US releases. Like varmintx posted above, it could be a lot worse. Dub-only, lossy audio, and inferior video masters have all happened on other releases.