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Idea: babyhum's proposed new Studio Ghibli project (* unfinished project *) — Page 2

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Anyone know where the hell babyhum went? I've been trying to get in touch with him any way i can.
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I too am curious as to whether anythings moving forward.


Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.

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is this project dead?

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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On hold. Normal service will be resumed soon.
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just wanted to say Disney messed up again with their new totoro dub, good thing the region 2 release has the same audio track from the fox video dvd release and in widescreen!

plus the Japan release of Howl's moving castle I have is four discs!, disney 2 disc a shame.


I have heard the the american release has higher image quality, but without the old dub. too bad we can't have a perfect edition, the new transfer with the old dub , a much needed preservation project. I'll just go and buy the region 2 dvd. In fact i think i'll pretty much stick with buying region 2 anime releases becuase they are always better than the botched u.s. editions, even without the subtitles.

Don't know if they messed up whisper of the heart too, if they did I'll have to get the region 2 of that as well.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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Well first of all I think Disney is doing a fine job with the ghibli films. I do wish they would go back and do a special edditon of Mononoke the one they released here was only one disk. I do wish we got all of the bonus featurs for Howl, from the japanese standard edition all we are missing is the documentary of premiers in Venice and US. We did get the Hello, Mr lassetter from the special edition disc 4 though. So I think Disney is doing what they think is best the market for Ghibli fims over here probably isn't as big and 4 disc special editions probably wouldn't sell aswell. Although I would buy it if it were released here. Maybe a 3 disc version would be better I don't imagine alot of people would care to have the 2nd disc where it is just the movie in 6 different laguages all DD2.0.

That being said it probably wouldn't be hard to put the fox dub on the new totoro transfer. In fact I have been meaning to do it when I get the cash to buy the fox version off of ebay. I have never seen the fox dub and am interested in seeing it but I don't like Fullscreen thats why I have yet to buy it.

What do you think disney is botching with these releases? Yea I wish we could have more bonus features, but the dubs are some of the best english dubs for anime plus the japanese audio with ghibli's official subtitles are on them. And remember Miyazaki gets the final say on all of this so if he were displeased with disney he would make them do it again to get it right acording to the deal he has with disney he has that power.

As for the topic of this thread. I hope baby hum starts it up again soon. If he needs any of the english behind the mic featuretts or any of the features on the US releases I have them all except for pom poko and yamadas which I will hopefully buy on payday. I would also like to see a preservation of The little norse prince valiant. An english dub was made of it and brodcast on TBS in the 80's I know some people have a tape of it it would be nice to take the audio from it and the Recently released Pal transfer and then we could have both japanese and english audio with good dvd video.

I have also been meaning to do a preservation of my Warriors of the Wind VHS. I was thinking about using the audio from it and edition the dvd Nausicaa into it. So I could have the worst dub and edit job in history on widescreen dvd. This I wouldn't be able to do anytime soon though because I lack the experience. I could probably do all of the cutting but then I would have to add the tilte screen and remove some japanese characters from the dvd transfer And I don't know how to do that stuff yet.

Hope this starts off again soon.
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Why on Earth would you even consider perserving Warriors of the Wind? It's not like putting an old dub on a new release like how the new ADV Dirty Pair DVDs don't have Streamline's dubs which actually weren't too bad considering. At least it had personality. I wouldn't mind something like that one. WotW on the other hand is an edit job that deeply upsetted it's creator. Recutting Nausicaa back into Warriors would be a slap in the face to a wonderful film, in my opinion.

SkyJedi, you can't just say that Disney botched the dub. You have to provide little things called "reasons".


Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.

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Well I was mainly going to preserve it just to be a learning experience and because of my aversion to fulscreen movies. I actualy havn't watched the VHS in years, like 8 of em, I bought a subbed one from china then re subed it with a script I found on the internet then bought the official release a few years after that. I agree that the film is exelent, one of my favorites if not my favorite, and that none of the edits should have originaly been made. But for some reason I feel like preserving it. If for no other reason than to serve as a reminder to what editing great anime can do. So we never repeat the mistake again. Its probably WotWs fault that we only started getting official US releases a few years ago. I probably wouldn't even watch it again after preserving it.
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Why not spend the effort on something more worthwhile then? I could probably find some animes in need of preservation. ^_^


Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.

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Interesting views on the Disney releases. I personally am not touching them. I'm a bit of a purest. I have all of the Ghibli titles on Region 2 Japanese DVD I even prefer the original Laputa dub.
The purpose of this project WHEN it gets started is NOT to do anything with the movies. I am only interested in collecting and documentary or interview footage for this project.
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I hope that Babyhum is still going to do this, as I'm fairly interested in seeing unreleased features.

As for anime that needs preserving, I took one of my two Lensman master VHS tapes (fullscreen and dubbed) and converted it to dvd with a stand-alone dvd recorder. Quality is a little washed out (because I got both tapes used form a video store, and this was the better of the two), and there is a video glitch at about the *will have to check the time* mark that the standalone merely skips frames over for. I have a friend in Japan who's still looking for the fabled region2 dvd release, to no avail. Anyone interested in what I have can definetely tag me about it.

I've got better things to do tonight than die! - Springer, Transformers the Movie

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any updates on your fine project Babyhum?, ghibli rules!

By the way speaking of Lensman there is also a Japan laserdisc collection of episodes of a series, which I think was condensed for the movie version which is also available in japan on LD.

There is an official U.S. Release on LD, which Is a rare find on ebay whenever it appears, i think i is a streamline pictures release not sure though.

I to can think of many anime LD's that need preservation mainly for their superior audio and features.

There are 2 different criterion versions of akira, which I own

the ghibli box set which I own which only goes to the year 1995

the princess mononoke laserdisc which I also own.

Plus the evangelion japan laserdiscs.

I wish someone would also preserve the project a-ko letterbox LD

and the original streamline dubs of the dirty pair features.

I also have Final Yamato LD letterbox
and Be forever Yamato fullscreen LD with the stereo soundtrack.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.