How about another new feature announcement for The Castle of Cagliostro on Blu-ray Disc?
Art galleries! There are three unique galleries on the disc. Much like slideshows, they will cycle through the images while playing music from the movie. We spent months painstakingly sourcing, rescanning, and restoring each and every piece of art that was cleared to be included on this release.
Compare this raw cover scan with this restored cover, for example:
Anyway, to start off, we have a “promotional artwork” gallery. This features two types of artwork. First are primarily theatrical posters and flyers, the kind of stuff you usually see on DVD and videotape covers and such.
Second, there are high-quality visuals of the movie’s “stills.” Stills are promotional images (in this case, painted on cels) crafted early in production and displayed in theaters to get people excited for the movie. Sometimes these are directly based on finished footage and other times they are original drawings inspired by the concept art.
(Zenigata’s task force is nowhere near this multicultural in the actual film.)
Like some of the other stills you’ll see in this gallery, you may recognize some of these from the various cases and inserts on previous Cagliostro releases.
Next up is a collection of model sheets. These show the characters in detail for consistent drawing by the animators.
Each character is featured in these. They were drawn by Animation Director Yasuo Ohtsuka.
And last, but most definitely not least…
This is the largest collection of imageboards from the film you will find anywhere, and presented in the highest available quality! But what are these “imageboards”?
Effectively the primordial soup of the film, these pencil-and-watercolor illustrations were all drawn up by director Hayao Miyazaki himself in May 1979 while determining how to make the Lupin concept “work” for him again. Included are early renditions of the Count, Clarisse, and Jodot, as well as unused scene ideas.
And of course, those interested in the artistry of the film will be pleased to note that the storyboard viewing mode for the film is returning with this release. With it, you can easily compare the final film footage with Miyazaki’s storyboard art in real time!
This Blu-ray Disc easily contains the most comprehensive collection of Cagliostro production artwork ever gathered together in one commercial product. And there’s still more to announce!
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