Comments on: Disney Releases New Miyazaki/Ghibli Special Edition DVDs

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Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:17:16 +0000

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By: William George

William George — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:14:11 +0000

Maybe it’s Totoro’s other neighbor?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:39:22 +0000

I’m surprised Disney are using that cover for My Neighbor Totoro. It has the girl who looks like Satsuki with pigtails. Miyazaki decided to split her into two girls before the movie went into production.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:21:03 +0000

All of the Studio Ghibli releases were originally 2 disc sets. These re-releases apparently have new material on the second disc.

By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:30:13 +0000

Spirited Away and Howls were both 2 disc sets, I thought the others were singledisc sets…but that could just be a faulty memory on my part. :)

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:11:56 +0000

Oh, are these just repackagings of the earlier releases, then?

William: Good catch.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:44:04 +0000

I’m really hoping they put something on the second disc besides storyboards, like they did the first time they released these. That was a cool idea, but I would have settled for a few scenes in stroryboard form and some commentary / making of features.

And how about a re-release of Princess Mononoke? With Miramax gone, couldn’t they slip it into the Disney line?

By: William George

William George — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:51:27 +0000

It seems like they’re putting put their kid-oriented stuff first.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:14:56 +0000

Were those already 2-disc sets? Actually, from the press release I got, I wasn’t sure why two discs were needed with these. Maybe more details will be forthcoming later.

By: Thom

Thom — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:17:24 +0000

I’m unsure, these et make them more like Howls and Spirited away-which already included those types of special feature-including a Lasseter Introduction. Though, they might re-release the sets with the new packaging.