Optimum Home Entertainment has announced that on June 7, it will release the animated movie
Ponyo on a Blu-ray/DVD combo edition, as the first title in the studio's Studio Ghibli Collection. At the moment there is no information regarding technical specs (especially audio codecs used for each language). A
limited deluxe edition, in a Digipak with a sticker sheet and a set of artcards, will also be released.
Special features include:
- Storyboards
- The Five Geniuses Who Created Ponyo – interviews
- Japanese trailers and TV spots
- Intro by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall (3:19)
- A Conversation with Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter (3:30)
- Behind the Microphone: the Voices of Ponyo (6:01)
- Creating Ponyo (3:55)
- Ponyo and Fujimoto(2:56)
- The Nursery (1:57)
- Scoring Miyazaki (7:17)
- The Producer's Perspective: Telling the Story (2:25)
- The Locations in Ponyo (9:39)
- Hayao Miyazaki interview (14.00)
- Toshio Suzuki interview (29:00)
- Dubbing Session and interview with Japanese cast (25:00)
- Music Video of the theme song (3:30)
It is worth noting that this release has the spine number 17 (
Ponyo was the 17th feature film produced by Studio Ghibli).