Studio Ghibli Movies Gets Digitally Released

If you love anime movies then you must be well aware of Studio Ghibli. The amazing studio which is home to many great anime films like Castle in the sky. The Cat Return. Howl’s Moving Castle. My neighbor Totoro. Spirited Away. Ocean Waves. Only Yesterday. Ponyo. And this list goes on and on. Most of these movies get released in a few countries only like Japan, the US, Canada, etc. And anime fans of other countries have no ways to see it apart from buying Blue Ray DVDs.

But there is a piece of good news for the fans who have been waiting for an official digital release for Studio Ghibli movies. On 1st December, GKIDS announced that they will be releasing 21 Studio Ghibli Films Digitally. These movies will be available across several platforms – Apple TV, Amazon VOD, Vudu, Google Play, Sony, Microsoft, and FandangoNOW. These movies will be available from 17th December across all these platforms. Furthermore, this will be the first time that the Studio Ghibli movies will be available for digital transactions. The films will be available in English and in Japanese with English subtitles.

North Korea’s test of its ‘super large’ rocket may signal its deployment soon

North Korea said Friday the latest test-firing of its “super-large” multiple rocket launcher was a final review of the weapon’s combat application, a suggestion that the country is preparing to deploy the new weapons system soon. South Korea’s military earlier said North Korea fired two projectiles, likely from the same “super-large” rocket launcher, on Thursday. It expressed “strong regret” over the launches and urged North Korea to stop escalating tensions. On Friday, the North’s Korean Central News Agency confirmed the launches were made with the presence of leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials. “The volley test-fire aimed to finally examine the combat application of the super-large multiple launch rocket system proved the military and technical superiority of the weapon system and its firm reliability,” KCNA said. It said Kim expressed “great satisfaction” over the results of the test-firing. Analyst Kim Dong-yub at Seoul’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies said North Korea appears to be entering the stage of mass-producing and deploying the rocket launcher. He wrote on Facebook that the weapons system may already have been deployed.

Thursday’s firing was the fourth test-launch of the rocket launcher since August. Some experts say the flight distance and trajectory of projectiles fired from the launcher show they are virtually missiles or missile-classed weapons. The projectiles fired Thursday flew about 380 kilometres (235 miles) at a maximum altitude of 97 kilometres (60 miles), according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday called the projectiles ballistic missiles. North Korea has fired other new weapons in recent months in what some experts say is an attempt to wrest concessions from the United States in stalled nuclear diplomacy while upgrading its military capabilities. A U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at persuading North Korea to scrap its nuclear program in return for political and economic benefits remains largely stalemated since the February collapse of a summit between Kim and President Donald Trump in Vietnam. Most of the North Korean weapons tested since the Vietnam summit were short-range. Attention is now on whether North Korea resumes nuclear and long-range missile tests if Trump fails to meet a year-end deadline set by Kim for Washington to offer new proposals to salvage the negotiations. Trump considers North Korea’s self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests a major foreign policy win.