Seen on www.dvdtalk.com, this news:
About time, dagnabbit.
See if you can intimidate them into releasing Nausicaa and Pom Poko. If they had released Laputa earlier, I’d have been all over myself with excitement, but now I’m just thinking it’s about damn time. Oh yeah, and Porco Rosso too.
And while you’re at it, get them to announce the Lilo and Stitch special edition so I don’t have to get tempted to buy the “cheap” version every time I see it.
I’m rooting for Porco, personally.
Of course, Spirited Away, Kiki’s and Laputa will be nice…
From what I understand, the reason for the wait isn’t fully Disney’s fault–Ghibli wanted to give the R2 releases time to sell before the R1’s came out (R2 DVD’s are expensive in Japan).