Studio Ghibli via GKIDS

[BluMonday]

Originally Posted by Buscemi

And the biggest demand seems to be for My Neighbor Totoro to have the Streamline/Troma dub. I really do not get why people want this so badly. It's a terrible dub. Besides, these were intended to be seen in their native Japanese.

I've read that the answer is: "it's the version I grew up with."

[Scholer]

Originally Posted by nando820

^that Amazon is beautiful indeed. I'll just wait for the eventual Criterion release 20 years from now. Mark my words, save this post, put in stone. Let's hope we still here though...

One day! Perhaps when Criterion goes UHD!

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Done.

Thank You! Much easier to follow.
Of course my previous three posts in a row look a little wonky now.

[RodChester]

One thread to rule them all.

[Petey Parker]

Originally Posted by varmintx

What's sad about it? Everyone seems to be happy GKids has them now. I don't particularly care either way.

I'm sad because I was slowly completing my collection via Disney Movie Club. I wonder if they will have a fire sale at some point.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Petey Parker

I'm sad because I was slowly completing my collection via Disney Movie Club. I wonder if they will have a fire sale at some point.

More likely to vanish without warning. .

[Scottie]

I have updated the OP significantly.

If there is anything I'm missing or have listed correctly, please let me know.

[akaun6899]

Cover art for seven of the first eight releases have been revealed on Amazon:

Ponyo: https://www.amazon.com/Ponyo-Bluray-...=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Princess Mononoke: https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Mono...e%3A2693529011

Spirited Away: https://www.amazon.com/Spirited-Away...e%3A2693529011

Kiki's Delivery Service: https://www.amazon.com/Kikis-Deliver...e%3A2693529011

My Neighbor Totoro: https://www.amazon.com/Neighbor-Toto...e%3A2693529011

Castle in the Sky: https://www.amazon.com/Castle-Sky-Bl...=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Howl's Moving Castle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

[BNex99]

Aside from some hiccups here and there (and taking way too long to initially release them), Disney has actually done pretty well by most of these films. The dubs are high-quality, and most of the films give you both English and Japanese credits, depending on which language is selected (Nausicaa excepted, I think). They've also given them higher visibility in the US than they might have had otherwise (though maybe not as high as they could have).

As others have stated, the main issue with the Disney releases are the subtitles on Castle, Kiki, and Mononoke. From an A/V standpoint, most of them are great.

[oubukibun]

Awesome! Good thing I've been holding off buying Mononoke and Spirited.

I wonder if the extras will be ported over from the previous releases? I don't know if Disney produced any of the new ones exclusively, and they're notoriously stingy about letting other studios have their extras. Hmm...

[MifuneFan]

Great artwork for Mononoke, never cared at all for the Disney cover.

[Barry the Nomad]

As somebody who already owns all the Disney Ghibli blu-ray releases, which movies in this collection will have direct translation subtitles that the Disney release did not?

[Fabs]

Disappointing that the actors' names are still on the covers. I get it's probably due to contractual obligations, but it defaces good artwork.

[Kap6289]

Originally Posted by Barry the Nomad

As somebody who already owns all the Disney Ghibli blu-ray releases, which movies in this collection will have direct translation subtitles that the Disney release did not?

I second this question!

[JTurner]

Originally Posted by Buscemi

I imagine they will simply be ports (much like when Lionsgate reissued the Miramax titles Disney previously did). GKIDS doesn't distribute the home video releases. They simply distribute through Universal.

And the biggest demand seems to be for My Neighbor Totoro to have the Streamline/Troma dub. I really do not get why people want this so badly. It's a terrible dub. Besides, these were intended to be seen in their native Japanese.

Actually, no. Miyazaki has said that he wants viewers to view the movies in a language of their choice. He never said any of that.

As far as the Streamline/Troma dub of Totoro goes, it was fine for its time and there are people who are fond of it. But Disney's dub of it is certainly acceptable.

Furthermore, the Streamline/Tokuma dubs weren't always good. Kiki compared favorably to its Disney counterpart, but Laputa and Porco Rosso -- the Disney dubs of these two movies are far superior; the previous non-Disney ones stink. The less said about "Warriors", the better.

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by JTurner

Actually, no. Miyazaki has said that he wants viewers to view the movies in a language of their choice. He never said any of that.

As far as the Streamline/Troma dub of Totoro goes, it was fine for its time and there are people who are fond of it. But Disney's dub of it is certainly acceptable.

Furthermore, the Streamline/Tokuma dubs weren't always good. Kiki compared favorably to its Disney counterpart, but Laputa and Porco Rosso -- the Disney dubs of these two movies are far superior; the previous non-Disney ones stink. The less said about "Warriors", the better.

Honestly I don't even remember another Totoro dub, but the young Fanning voices are grating at times. I'd like the other Kiki dub because that's the one I remember, but if it's not there then that's fine too, I just want them to fix the audio so it doesn't sound like they're talking through a fan.

I'd like to have the British dub for Arrietty with Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, and Olivia Coleman. It's a shame we didn't get it before, but now that they're all more well known here maybe it's possible now.

[akaun6899]

Originally Posted by kevin87

Honestly I don't even remember another Totoro dub, but the young Fanning voices are grating at times. I'd like the other Kiki dub because that's the one I remember, but if it's not there then that's fine too, I just want them to fix the audio so it doesn't sound like they're talking through a fan.

I'd like to have the British dub for Arrietty with Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, and Olivia Coleman. It's a shame we didn't get it before, but now that they're all more well known here maybe it's possible now.

The UK Arrietty dub and the Streamline dubs of Totoro and Kiki are the only things that would get me to double dip. I doubt we'll get the latter two at this point though.

[JTurner]

Originally Posted by kevin87

Honestly I don't even remember another Totoro dub, but the young Fanning voices are grating at times. I'd like the other Kiki dub because that's the one I remember, but if it's not there then that's fine too, I just want them to fix the audio so it doesn't sound like they're talking through a fan.

I'd like to have the British dub for Arrietty with Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, and Olivia Coleman. It's a shame we didn't get it before, but now that they're all more well known here maybe it's possible now.

If you mean the Streamline dub of Kiki, that was never released on video. It was only on LD.

Now the one with Phil Hartman's adlibs... that WAS released on video for a time, and it WAS ported to DVD in 2003. Likewise with Castle in the Sky with the new score (albeit its first release in America on any domestic format WAS on the 2003 DVD/VHS release).

Streamline DID distribute a previous dub of Castle in the Sky breifly for a time, but that version was done quite badly, even if it WAS by traditional voiceovers as opposed to the bigger names Disney secured for their dub (Mark Hamill, Van der Beek, Cloris Leachman, etc.). Just to give you an idea, here's a sample of how bad the older dub is compared to the Disney one.

https://vimeo.com/30591046

I'm not comparing either dub to the Japanese version because I am of the opinion that the dubs should stand on their own merits, but there's an obvious difference in terms of quality between the laughable, deadpan delivery of the late Jeff Winkless in the Tokuma dub versus Mark's more gloriously ruthless performance. Yes, Pazu and Sheeta sound a bit younger, but even their actresses were badly directed. I'm not saying the Disney leads were better cast -- James and Anna aren't ideal choices for these two -- but there's much more life to their performances than their shrill, shrieky, and often robotic JAL counterparts.

[Dubstar]

I'm curious what the audio will be since Ponyo, Howl's Moving Castle, and I think another one had 6.1 surround sound mixes that were not encoded as such by Disney - the only one getting the full treatment being 'Tales from Earthsea'

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by JTurner

If you mean the Streamline dub of Kiki, that was never released on video. It was only on LD.

Now the one with Phil Hartman's adlibs... that WAS released on video for a time, and it WAS ported to DVD in 2003. Likewise with Castle in the Sky with the new score (albeit its first release in America on any domestic format WAS on the 2003 DVD/VHS release).

If that's the only other dub there was then that was it but I'm not sure how I saw it, as we didn't have a laserdisc... but I know I watched the movie before I was 9/10 years old (in 1997 when Disney dubbed it), so that had to be the one I watched but I don't know how lol