Studio Ghibli’s World War II masterpiece, Grave of the Fireflies, is coming back with a limited edition steelbook! The steelbook will contain a DVD and a Blu-ray of the critically acclaimed movie.
The steelbook will become available on July 8, 2025. Crunchyroll has the steelbook available to pre-order on their store here: https://store.crunchyroll.com/products/grave-of-the-fireflies-movie-blu-ray-dvd-limited-edition-steelbook-826663251449.html
The steelbook will also contain the following special features:
- Feature-length storyboards
- Deleted scenes
- Interviews with director Isao Takahata, critic Roger Ebert and more
Grave of the Fireflies is described as follows:
As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. This is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources. Forced to fend for themselves in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities from the face of the earth, their doomed struggle is both a tribute to the human spirit and the stuff of nightmares. Beautiful, yet at times brutal and horrifying. Based on the retellings of survivor Nosaka Akiyuki and directed by Isao Takahata (co-founder, with Hayao Miyazaki, of Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli,) Grave Of The Fireflies has been universally hailed as an artistic and emotional tour de force. Now digitally remastered and restored, it is one of the rare films that truly deserves to be called a masterpiece.
You can find a review of Grave of the Fireflies here: https://www.theouterhaven.net/2015/02/anime-review-grave-fireflies/
Source; Crunchyroll
