The Cat Returns isn't worth a bluray, but why is Spirited Away just now coming out? Jesus fuck.

Pre-ordered Spirited Away, I haven't seen The Cat Returns.

Cat returns is excellent.

I enjoyed it on dvd.

It isn't bad, but it just felt like 3rd rate Ghibli to me.

Finally Spirited Away, my favorite Ghibli.

I was really hoping that Disney would instead release another set of 3, so that "My Neighbors the Yamadas" would have also been upgraded to blu-ray.

If they had, this would be all of the Disney Ghibli releases finally upgraded to blu-ray.

Maybe, however doubtful it may be, they are planning on finally releasing "Only Yesterday" along with upgrading "My Neighbors the Yamadas" later to try and tie in with GKIDS releasing "When Marnie Was There" when it hits blu-ray in the U.S.

Spirited Away drops tomorrow. any word if they fixed the tint issue of the original dvd (too red)

The Japanese DVD had the red tint issue. Disney corrected that for the American DVD release.

My bigger concern is the English subtitle translation. Has Disney shafted another Ghibli disc with lousy "dubtitles"?

According to Dvdbeaver, it's dubtitles. It's not that big of a deal for me because I love the English dub, but they should have the proper subtitles for the Japanese track.

On the bright side, the PQ & Audio looks amazing!
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-r...ay_blu-ray.htm

He writes "He believes it's dubtitles" which makes no sense, just flip on the English audio and do a quick comparison.

per the blu-ray forum if you go into the menu, there are 2 subttile tracks, the litteral translation and the dubtittles

I believe the two tracks are "English subtitles" versus "English SDH" captions with sound effects spelled out. Whether they are different translations is unclear.

The DVD of SA has SDH English subs based on the dub and a proper translation based on the Japanese dialogue. Same with PM. Apparently, the PM DB omitted the proper translation track .

Unfortunately, what subtitles were on the DVD are not necessarily an indicator of what will be on the Blu-ray. Disney has a history of including dubtitles on Blu-ray editions of movies that had properly translated subtitles on DVD.

The sad fact of the matter is that current management at Disney do not value the foreign-language titles in their catalog and treat them as Second Class properties behind English-spoken productions. They routinely relegate native language tracks to lossy audio while prioritizing dubs with lossless, and dumb down subtitles to simplified translations even when better translations are available.

I would love it if someone knowledgeable could put together a comprehensive list of Ghibli Blu-rays that catalogs all the flaws in the Disney releases (dubtitles, lossy audio, bad transfers, etc.) and points out which foreign releases are the best English-friendly alternatives.

Have there been any bad transfers with the Disney Ghibli BluRays? They've actually been respectful to the look of the films, by refraining from DNR and not boosting contrast or saturation levels, like they've done with their own titles.


edit: I found this. It doesn't have the most recent releases, but it might be a good starting point.

Very difficult to read the formatting of that, and it's missing a lot of info on American releases that have been out for a while (unless they're discussed later in the thread, which I don't have the time or patience to dig through), but I guess it's a start. Thanks.

A poster on AVSForum claims that Spirited Away has dubtitles.

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/150-bl...l#post35130714

While I don't have the Japanese blu-ray release to compare, I do have the original Japanese Ghibli Collection DVD and from doing a little spot checking, the normal English sub track from the blu is almost the same as the English sub track on that (no English audio). It swaps a few 'She' and 'Her's and things here and there like that, but overall it's the same, and where it differs it's much closer to that than it is the dub track on the blu where practically every line I saw was off in some way or another. Perhaps the poster from AVS might have just checked out the English for the hard of hearing sub track and not both? Or he's listening to the English dub and noticing instances where the English dub sometimes embellishes where the Japanese subs do not?

Are there any specific instances that would show otherwise that I could check? Let me know any timestamp to check if so.

The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki (Amazon Exclusive) [Blu-ray]

Out in the US on 11/17/2015



No word whether the movie discs will include the special features from the individual sets (like the Australian set) or if the new discs will have all special features removed (like the Japanese and UK sets)

They appear to be exactly the same BD discs as the individual Disney releases. Reasonable to expect that the same features will be on each disc.

GKids/Universal will release "When Marnie Was There" on October 6th in the US



Looks like all the Japanese extras are being carried over, and adding foreign trailers and the English dub featurette.

Do Studio Ghibli films go on sale? I might pick up Spirited Away this week.

Did that Madman set ever hit? I haven't heard any reviews of it.

Are you asking about the Disney/Region 1 releases? Once in a while they go on-sale.

Costco sometimes has them. There were also a few titles at $11.99 back in October at Best Buy.