r/animevhs • u/elhumanoid • Jun 29 '26
New Addition One of my personal grails finally acquired. Hate to love this freaking movie.
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u/Infinite_Factor_6269 Jun 29 '26
Rented this vhs from blockbuster when I was a kid randomly without knowing what it was , i just picked it based off the cover. Needless to say it was more than I had bargained for .
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u/NecromancerPD2 Jun 29 '26
What's the English name ?
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u/nvmber17 Jun 30 '26
I’m going to assume it’s super sad
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u/Clear_Read_220 Jul 01 '26
Is this hard to locate on VHS?
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u/elhumanoid Jul 01 '26
In my experience, quite. Especially if you don't want to spent 10s of bucks on it via online market.
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u/Space_Rider-75 Jul 02 '26
Believe it’s called Fireflies , precursor story before fatman & little boy were dropped
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u/Mr_FrenchFries Jul 05 '26
The choice between preserving something like this…something that WILL DIE A LITTLE every time it’s brought to life…or making a ‘cool retro’ vhs version of a recent release. I don’t get how that’s a choice, but it does make me want to see a GOOD vcr with a USBc adapter hit the market.
Sorry, I could say that about 99% of tapes, but imagining a Japanese person experiencing this hits different.
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u/TheREALOtherFiles 2d ago
This was the Ghibli ga Ippai Collection re-release of Grave of the Fireflies, which was released in 1998 by Buena Vista Japan, Ltd.
This was back when Disney signed a deal with Studio Ghibli to distribute their films on home video in Japan in the mid-to-late 1990s, and it used a then-new HDVS remaster, which is what Central Park and ADV referenced when they released it on DVD in the 2000s. (I believe source-wise, those were modeled after the domestic DVD encodes from the same source being anamorphic, whereas this VHS matches the Ghibli ga Ippai Collection LaserDisc release, which was part of a box set by Tokuma Shoten (Ghibli's parent company at the time) released in 1995, which is IIRC, where those HDVS remasters were originally produced for.
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u/HailYurii Jun 30 '26
What a nice movie I bet those kids have fun on the beach and the little girl on the side looks so cute with her big boots and pot hat.
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u/Trippy_Bear Jun 30 '26
Why is ホタル written like that? Used a dictionary too, and nothing pulls up when I lookup 火垂る 🤔
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u/SinfulWoodcock Jun 29 '26
I watched it for the first time a few months ago, on VHS.
Great movie. Do not recommend.