The release, available as a four-disc Blu-ray or a digital download, features a 4K digital restoration and a new English-language dub produced by Vancouver’s Ocean Productions ( Dragon Ball Z, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time). The series never aired in the United States, and it’s long been relegated to fansubs and import copies, until now.įorty-three years after its premiere, Miyazaki’s directorial debut is now being released in North America for the first time. But the most fervent Ghibli fans will know that Miyazaki used the exact same premise eight years earlier for a different story: the 1978 anime TV series Future Boy Conan. The movie established Studio Ghibli as an international animation staple, and cemented Miyazaki’s reputation as one of the world’s most engaging movie writers and animators.
When the people chasing her catch up and kidnap her, the boy leaves his homeland behind to rescue her, and the pair eventually journey to new, fantastical lands. The two form a tight-knit bond, but she’s in danger, pursued by threatening figures after her family’s connections to great power.
Fans of Japan’s Studio Ghibli and its co-founder Hayao Miyazaki will remember this plotline from his first official Ghibli movie, 1986’s Castle in the Sky: A dark-haired boy stumbles across a mysterious pigtailed girl who seemingly materialized from thin air.
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