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Originally Posted by merylsilverburg

Well anyway, "Grave of the Fireflies" is supposed to be a very excellent film, probably Takahata's best directed work. It's very sad/depressing though, which is why I refuse to see it.

Yayness! Optimum (the people who released Spirited Away over here - the concentrate on more "arty", less mainstream titles) is releasing Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies on PAL R2 on August the 2nd of this year! Word is that "Tokyo Godfathers" is also out in September (13th), so thats something else that I may just pick up [Source: https://animeuknews.net/]

As for Castle in the Sky: I'm out of luck. I've tried two retailers and they've both told me that the title is "deleted" and that copies cannot be brought. The later of the two I tried was more helpful: the "official" word is that something is wrong with the Master Disc, so they can't manufacture the DVD anymore! Disney have apparently promised to reissue the film though, so I guess I've just got to be patient I was also very privilaged to recieve a copy of Kiki's Delivery Service yesterday, which I promptly popped into my PS2 and watched. I suffered from acute cheesy grin and warm fuzzy feeling syndrome for the next 1 hour 40 minutes! That movie is just so damned sweet ^^

So anyway... I think i'm going to change my order and get Ghost in the Shell next. Incidently, i've been doing a kind of "anime missionary" thing at the moment - I've been sharing my miniscule Anime collection with my school-friends to let them know what its all about! So far its only been 4 guys (so I've not tried showing them Kiki ^^), who've seen a little anime... reception for the movies has all been pretty good (Akira x3, Metropolis and Spirited Away x1) and I just seem to derive a strange pleasure from getting people to watch anime!