Studio Ghibli via GKIDS

[Monkeker]

Originally Posted by willtopower

Pom poko missing the fur balls on this release too?

I'm not sure what you mean.

[gwfb5]

Originally Posted by hanshotfirst1138

I'm kind of just thinking about getting the "Collected Works" set from Disney to have my Miyazaki fix, is there anything particularly special about these releases by comparison? That big Princess Mononoke making of is apparently never making it to the States.

If I'm not mistaken, the individual films lack any bonus features in that box set.
Assuming that doesn't matter too you, the only GKIDS editions you may want are...

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - New transfer, and fixed credits.
Castle in the Sky - Includes both versions of the score.
PONYO - Has Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio. (may not matter if you primarily watch these movies in English.)

However, if you prefer to watch them with subtitles, I think the box set has proper subtitles for all the films. If not, the only ones you'd need to worry about are...

Princess Mononoke
Castle in the Sky
Kiki’s Delivery Service (this one is a bit debatable)

For more info.
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=3039

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by willtopower

Pom poko missing the fur balls on this release too?

If it did the story would be cut down to 5 minutes

[Shingster]

Originally Posted by Knaldskalle

No, they alternated between showing Grave of the Fireflies first or Totoro.

Yup apparently they couldn't decide which film to show first because they felt that if audiences watched Grave of the Fireflies first, they would be too bummed out to sit through a fun family film like Totoro, but if they screened Totoro first then they'd be all happy then just hit in the face with the misery of GotF, so I think they left it up to the theatre managers to decide so it all depended on which theatre you went to see them at.

[Shingster]

Originally Posted by hanshotfirst1138

I'm kind of just thinking about getting the "Collected Works" set from Disney to have my Miyazaki fix, is there anything particularly special about these releases by comparison? That big Princess Mononoke making of is apparently never making it to the States.

If you like to watch your 2.0 stereo films in pro-logic/dolby surround/dts-surround mode be warned that Disney completely forgot to flag the 2.0 tracks for pro-logic so you can only watch them in left-right stereo (which obviously heavily affects the earlier films). I've recently upgraded to gkids releases and will be selling off my Miyazaki collection because of this. Otherwise it's a pretty great set.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by Shingster

If you like to watch your 2.0 stereo films in pro-logic/dolby surround/dts-surround mode be warned that Disney completely forgot to flag the 2.0 tracks for pro-logic so you can only watch them in left-right stereo (which obviously heavily affects the earlier films). I've recently upgraded to gkids releases and will be selling off my Miyazaki collection because of this. Otherwise it's a pretty great set.

You could just force the receiver into DPL decoding mode, no? The flag just makes that happen automatically instead of manually when in a straight decode mode. I generally force all content to decode with Dolby ProLogic IIz unless I know its supposed to be 2.0 stereo, in which case I'll force stereo.

Most receivers have a DSP setting for this, so you could even listen to a CD in DPL surround sound, for instance.

[DukeTogo84]

Will GKids be releasing the Wind Rises at any point in the near future?

[Shingster]

Originally Posted by Ruined

You could just force the receiver into DPL decoding mode, no? The flag just makes that happen automatically instead of manually when in a straight decode mode. I generally force all content to decode with Dolby ProLogic IIz unless I know its supposed to be 2.0 stereo, in which case I'll force stereo.

Flag might be the wrong term because no setting on my denon avr receiver would split the audio, seems to be encoded without any centre/surround info. It's stereo or bust.

[gwfb5]

Originally Posted by duketogo84

Will GKids be releasing the Wind Rises at any point in the near future?

Short answer, probably not.
They've implied that they will try to acquire it as soon as Disney loses the rights, but it might be a while before that happens.

Lord knows if/when they'll ever acquire Grave of the Fireflies.

[Shingster]

Have they expressed interest in GotF?

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by Shingster

Have they expressed interest in GotF?

Apparently GOTF isn't part of the Ghibli Collection in the US, something I still don't really get but whatever... I'm sure they'd like to have it even if it couldn't be part of the Ghibli Collection though since they release other animated films too, but I haven't heard anything. Sentai probably would want to hold on to the rights if possible.

I'd assume Wind Rises will eventually get re-released under GKIDS, just who knows when. Though it has been 7 months since they first announced all this, and it'll be 4 years since the Disney release this coming November, so just depends on how long Touchstone/Disney have the rights for before they expire... Maybe they'll have it by the time the How Do You Live is released in 2021 for a double release, if not before. Could surprise us and release it along side Mary and the Witch's Flower too.

[hanshotfirst1138]

Originally Posted by Shingster

If you like to watch your 2.0 stereo films in pro-logic/dolby surround/dts-surround mode be warned that Disney completely forgot to flag the 2.0 tracks for pro-logic so you can only watch them in left-right stereo (which obviously heavily affects the earlier films). I've recently upgraded to gkids releases and will be selling off my Miyazaki collection because of this. Otherwise it's a pretty great set.

I take it Disney's rights have lapsed? Are gkids retaining any of the old Shout extras?

[guachi]

I find the GKids packaging tastefully done and the movies look really nice on the shelf all lined up.

And with BestBuy having most (all?) on sale for $12.99 it's a perfect time to buy whatever you don't have.

[gwfb5]

Originally Posted by hanshotfirst1138

I take it Disney's rights have lapsed? Are gkids retaining any of the old Shout extras?

I'm not sure what you mean by "old Shout extras".
Just to clarify, all of the recent GKIDS re-releases are distributed by Shout Factory.

Info on the major differences between the Disney and GKIDS/Shout Blu-rays can be found here.
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=3039

[hanshotfirst1138]

My mistake. I thought that Shout went first, then Disney. I was going by DVDcompare.net. Foolish error. Apparently the Collected Works set which omits pretty much all of the extras. That...sucks.

[gwfb5]

It can admittedly be confusing, especially lately, with all the different releases from several different distributors.
Also, yes from what I have heard the Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki box set, for whatever reason, omits any special features for the individual films.

I'm pretty sure I responded to you about this a day or two ago.

If I'm not mistaken, the individual films lack any bonus features in that box set.
Assuming that doesn't matter too you, the only GKIDS editions you may want are...

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - New transfer, and fixed credits.
Castle in the Sky - Includes both versions of the score.
PONYO - Has Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio. (may not matter if you primarily watch these movies in English.)

However, if you prefer to watch them with subtitles, I think the box set has proper subtitles for all the films. If not, the only ones you'd need to worry about are...

Princess Mononoke
Castle in the Sky
Kiki’s Delivery Service (this one is a bit debatable)

For more info.
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...&postcount=363

[shinobipopcorn]

The collected works set is copying the similar Japanese set, which dropped extras in order to provide the maximum possible bit rate for the films. Though I'm not sure the US transfers did the same (but I do know they fixed all the errors in subtitles and the burnt in credits).

[gwfb5]

Originally Posted by shinobipopcorn

The collected works set is copying the similar Japanese set, which dropped extras in order to provide the maximum possible bit rate for the films. Though I'm not sure the US transfers did the same (but I do know they fixed all the errors in subtitles and the burnt in credits).

Just to be clear for those who don't know, the only film with the burnt in English credits issue was Nausicaa.

Also, the only Miyazaki films that lacked proper subtitles on the Disney Blu-rays
were Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, and Kiki's Delivery Service. (though Kiki has never had literally translated subtitles on any US release.)

If I'm wrong about any of this, please correct me.

[TheBoss062]

Originally Posted by kevin87

Apparently GOTF isn't part of the Ghibli Collection in the US, something I still don't really get but whatever... I'm sure they'd like to have it even if it couldn't be part of the Ghibli Collection though since they release other animated films too, but I haven't heard anything. Sentai probably would want to hold on to the rights if possible.

I'd assume Wind Rises will eventually get re-released under GKIDS, just who knows when. Though it has been 7 months since they first announced all this, and it'll be 4 years since the Disney release this coming November, so just depends on how long Touchstone/Disney have the rights for before they expire... Maybe they'll have it by the time the How Do You Live is released in 2021 for a double release, if not before. Could surprise us and release it along side Mary and the Witch's Flower too.

Grave of the Fireflies apparently wasn't picked up by Disney because it wasn't family friendly. Heck, it probably took a lot of negotiating for Disney to acquire Princess Mononoke.

[shinobipopcorn]

Originally Posted by TheBoss062

Grave of the Fireflies apparently wasn't picked up by Disney because it wasn't family friendly. Heck, it probably took a lot of negotiating for Disney to acquire Princess Mononoke.

There must be another underlying reason; after all Disney deemed Only Yesterday "un-family friendly" yet they still got the rights and held them hostage until GKids freed the film.