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For those of you who didn't notice; Disney has a habit of releasing it's movies on DVD or whatever for short periods of time. They run in batches (as do most movies). Like Nintendo games, they sell out fast (the good ones anyway) and typically become unavailable until some re-release years later.

Anyway, also for those of you who don't know; Disney has been a big importer of anime done by Studio Ghibli. Ghibli is the Disney of anime. They do BIG, overwhelmingly successful, movies that are typically dubbed classics as soon as they are released.

Now, I've compared them to Disney, so, basically it's not for everyone, but they're good, decent at least. Trust me.

Ok, so for the point of this topic... now that you're all up to speed:
Like Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Pinnochio, and whatever else has been re-released, Disney is re-releasing the Ghibli classics on Disney DVD (and bluRay? Maybe? I forget).

So, this means that people can finally buy "Laputa: Castle in the Sky", "Totoro", "Howl's Moving Castle", "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", "Princess Mononoke", "Spirited Away", etc...

You'll notice that there's some epics in that list.

Note that some of these aren't for kids... Especially not Mononoke.
So don't be getting these for your babies unless you know which one you're looking at. (For example, Totoro is just fine for kids).

Just a service announcement.

We grabbed "Kiki's Delivery Service" at Sam's a few weeks back. A very pretty movie and very kid friendly. Jackson seems to like that one. Now that I know to look, I'll be going after some of these other ones.

Ummm I watched Howl's moving castle, princess monoke and spirited away on dvd like last year. I've also seen them in stores for quite some time now. Are you sure this is news?

Also I'll never forget the day I watched Princess Monoke with my wife. Despite my constant warnings she won't stop labeling anything animated as a kid's show. So the movie starts and I think it's within 15 mins there's a guy who gets decapitated by an arrow...very graphic. Wife's face: priceless.

They have been in stores for a while, as some of them came out like... 10 years ago.

But they are re-releasing them now. Which means they've made fresh copies.
So, instead of a store having 0 to 1 of a 10 year old DVD, they will have piles of fresh ones.
Some of them were getting extremely rare. Laputa, for example, was basically unavailable.

Just like Wario Ware Smooth Moves, you can't buy it in stores.

Yea Ive seen all the Studio Ghibli stuff. They are all worth a watch. Very good gateway anime for people new to it.

I suppose it's a "gateway anime", but really, when you watch a Ghibli movie it's usually sooooo far off of typical anime that a big Ghibli fan may dislike anime in general.