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Ponyo BD to Ship in Japan with English Subs on December 8 (Updated)
posted on by Egan Loo
Sempai ~Tsutawaru "Chizu" o Kaku~ DVD.
Although English-subtitled Ghibli DVDs have been released in the past, no Ghibli feature film has been released on BD until this year. (Unlike DVD players, North American BD players can play Japanese BDs without modification and vice versa.) WDSHE did documentaries of the locales that inspired Miyazaki. The DVD versions of the keepsake edition with the Ponyo wa Kōshite Umareta documentary DVD and the Joe Hisaishi in Budōkan concert DVD will also ship on December 8, as will the standalone version of the Kagai Jugyō Yōkoso Sempai DVD.
Ponyo has been stayed at #1 on Oricon's weekly sales chart for four straight weeks in July.
Source: AV Watch
Image © 2009 Studio Ghibli
Update: While the specifications do not list an English-language soundtrack, AV Watch says that the BD video release's main disc will "include the complete North American version, which opened nationwide in America in August with Matt Damon, and others as voice actors, as a special bonus." Thanks, toru.
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