12/25/2005

So sorry about the lack of posts this week! I hope everyone is having a great holiday, for those of you who celebrate it.

I personally was thrilled by an announcement about Little Nemo spotted on Anime News Service. (I played the Nintendo/Famicom game way back when.) It’s great to see it get a full DVD release! Check out ANS’ article below:

Bandai Visual will release the animated film Little Nemo to DVD for the first time in Japan on December 23 at a 8,190 Yen retail. After 6 years of production, the film was made for 5.3 billion Yen. It opened theatrically in 1989 in Japan and 1991 in the USA. About 2 million copies were sold in the US in 1994 upon home video release. The character was created by American Windsor Mckay in the early 20th century. The work has been spoken highly of by such creators as Osamu Tezuka and George Lucas. Directors on the project included Masami Hata and William T. Hurtz. Writing credits included Ray Bradbury, Chris Columbus, Yutaka Fujioka, Jean Giraud, Richard Outten and Edward Summer. The film runs 95 minutes, 38 minutes worth of bonus footage will be added including the original 1987 pilot film. Other extras such as storyboards etc.. are on disc. R2 Importers will note the inclusion of Japanese and English audio. Japanese subtitles can be selected as well.