Does anyone know of any anime TV shows or movies that have been/will be released on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray?

HD-DVD is dead btw, Toshiba pulled out and the card house is falling from there.

I'm not sure if any are being released for homeviewing but I do believe I saw some Gundam 00 in HD, looks pretty good from what I can tell, but there probably will be a shift to Blu Ray soon enough.

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Yeah I know HD-DVD is dead, but LG is coming out with some dual players, so I figured I would buy what I can on HD-DVD because I'll be able to get it really cheap and then buy everything else on Blu-Ray.

well, your logic is good, but I havent really heard of any HD-Dvd releases of anime. Mind you, I don't buy anything anyways, so I am not a good judge on this.

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I've heard of one anime on Blu-Ray, but I can't remember the name of the movie. This was around last November or so, so I was hoping that some more might be out by then. I'm really hoping we get some high def re-releases of Ghibli movies soon!

Quite a few, actually Not that I know of any, but seriously guys, from the country where technology grows faster than their rice? Not possible to NOT have any.

As it is, Gedo Senki is out on Blu-Ray, and so is Paprika. Do a search and you'll find at least five more titles.

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I knew that some would have to be released. The increased storage capacity could be could for series as it would only take one disk to hold the whole series plus extra in one disc which is nice.

I'm not sure how much the quality improves, but I'm sure it would be noticeable.

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i've seen spirited away on blu ray and also akira. i think that their mainly comming out with the big titles at the moment

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i've seen spirited away on blu ray and also akira. i think that their mainly comming out with the big titles at the moment

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Sony are releasing all their new anime features on Blu-ray – in particular, Paprika and Tekkonkinkreet. That's in both the UK and US (as well as Japan and most other places). I think Wings of Honneamise has also been released on HD formats in the USA.

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Sony are releasing all their new anime features on Blu-ray – in particular, Paprika and Tekkonkinkreet. That's in both the UK and US (as well as Japan and most other places).

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Farren, you mention seeing "Spirited Away" on Blu-Ray. Was the quality of the film improved over the old version? and if so, how?

hahaha, oops, gettingg to sound like a school teacher...

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Artoo's right, Gedo Senki and Spirited Away are not yet available in blu-ray. Ghibli have had some blu-ray releases so far, but none that include their main "Ghibli era" movies -Ponyo will probably be the first.

On the other hand, some may have already been shown on HD channels (Howl's Moving Castle for certain). From what I've seen so far, HD does not actually make much difference to animation -unless you're sitting a meter or so away (or have the eyes of an animal of superior vision).

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Artoo's right, Gedo Senki and Spirited Away are not yet available in blu-ray. Ghibli have had some blu-ray releases so far, but none that include their main "Ghibli era" movies -Ponyo will probably be the first.

On the other hand, some may have already been shown on HD channels (Howl's Moving Castle for certain). From what I've seen so far, HD does not actually make much difference to animation -unless you're sitting a meter or so away (or have the eyes of an animal of superior vision).

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Steamboy is availble on Blu-Ray, but it's only available in Japan. This is a good and a bad thing though. It's good because Blu-Ray uses a different region coding, with the United States and Japan being in the same region. Unfortunately, there are no English subtitles.


The only official Ghibli Blu-Ray release is Oga Kazuo Exhibition: Ghibli No Eshokunin - The One Who Painted Totoro's Forest. It's available in a Blu-Ray/Standard DVD set, and in some places you can just buy the standard DVD, but you don't get everything. Here are the details of the two-disc set from YesAsia:

From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honoring Oga Kazuo, the art director and background artist for many famed works from Japan's Studio Ghibli. Over 600 works from the artist were on display, and numerous fans flocked to the one-of-a-kind exhibition celebrating the lush, gorgeous background artwork typifying many a work from Miyazaki Hayao and other Ghibli filmmakers. International fans of Oga and Studio Ghibli have not been left out, however. The Oga Kazuo Exhibition: Ghibli No Eshokunin - The One Who Painted Totoro's Forest (Blu-ray + DVD) allows fans the opportunity to attend the exhibition, as well as watch interviews and testimonials with Oga's contemporaries and collaborators, all subtitled in English.
The set includes a Blu-ray disc and DVD, both sharing much of the same content, with the Blu-ray disc having the added benefit of true High-Definition presentation. Shared features between the two discs include: a slideshow of all 600 works on display at the exhibition; the 72-minute feature "Ghibli's Oga Kazuo, who painted Totoro's woods"; and a 40-minute featurette containing interviews with director Takahata Isao, art scholar Tsuji Nobuo, Ghibli art department head Tanaka Naoya, and art director Kobayashi Shichiro.

The DVD also contains a 20-minute feature detailing Oga Kazuo's creative process, as he paints the cover for a 2005 art book collecting his paintings. The same feature shows up on the Blu-ray disc, except extended to 35 minutes. The Blu-ray disc also includes an exclusive feature with Oga creating the cover painting for the Blu-ray disc release, shot and presented in HD to take full advantage of the next generation video format. For fans of both painted art and Ghibli Studios, the Oga Kazuo Exhibition represents an uncommon and fascinating glimpse into the mind of a master.


My guess -- and this is purely specualtion -- is that we won't see any Ghibli Blu-Ray releases until after Ponyo is released on Blu-Ray. Remember, Ponyo is slated from an American theatrical release of mid-late 2009 (over a year after it's Japanese release). There is some speculation that Disney is banking on Wall-E to be their it film of 2008 and Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (official English title) to be their it (ie: award winning) film of 2009.

It's my sincere hope that Disney somehow loses the American rights to all Ghibli films. They have done a terrible job promoting the studio and it's films. I first heard of Grave of the Fireflies a little less than a year ago when I stumbled upon an eBay auction for the movie. The seller wrote a good seven paragraphs about how amazing the film is. I bought it based soley on that and I have been hooked on Ghibli ever since. Unfortunately I have only seen Fireflies, Pom Poko and the arguably quasi-Ghibli Night on the Galactic Railroad since then, but I'm collecting Ghibli DVDs as quickly as I can. But I'm going to end this before I get even further off topic. lol.

One final thing.... I've read on a couple websites that Ghibli will be releasing all of their movies that were previously unreleased in R1 on Blu-Ray. I have no official word on that, so take it for what it's worth.

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Steamboy is availble on Blu-Ray, but it's only available in Japan. This is a good and a bad thing though. It's good because Blu-Ray uses a different region coding, with the United States and Japan being in the same region. Unfortunately, there are no English subtitles.

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i didn't see the movie i just merely saw the dvd in a dvd store somwhere but i have no idea where....

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I would just like to mention again (in case anyone missed it) that Blu-Ray and standard DVDs have different region codes. In BR, Japan and America have the same region code (Region A), so Japanese BR's will play in American players and American BR's will play in Japanese players.

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I would just like to mention again (in case anyone missed it) that Blu-Ray and standard DVDs have different region codes. In BR, Japan and America have the same region code (Region A), so Japanese BR's will play in American players and American BR's will play in Japanese players.

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Indeed. But if you're in Europe the region is different to Japan for blu-ray (Europe is region B).

Good for Americans bad for Europeans

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Welll us Brits have been able to play Region 2 Japanese DVDs for years and no doubt the USA complained that it couldn't so now the boot is on the other foot.

I've never had a problem with European R2 and USA R1 DVDs being incompatible.

Europe is a big market, Japanese anime companies will sell licenses to European publishers to distribute anime in Region B blu-rays I'm sure of it.

Region free blu-ray players will be with us in a few years, in the meantime I've invested 100s of £ in DVDs so I'll stick with those for the moment. Heck I still watch movies on VHS from time to time

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