A heartbreaking Studio Ghibli classic returns to home video with this summer's arrival of Grave of the Fireflies . The 1988 anime film from director Isao Takahata is coming back to Blu-ray in a standard edition and a limited edition SteelBook from GKIDS, both of which are now available to pre-order via the Crunchyroll Store ahead of a July 8 launch. Check out more information on both, including special features and cover art, below. Grave of the Fireflies Movie (Blu-ray + DVD) 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. SPECIAL FEATURES: Feature-length storyboards Deleted scenes Interviews with director Isao Takahata, critic Roger Ebert and more Available in North America on July 8, 2025 PRE-ORDER NOW RELATED: Solo Leveling Season 1 Limited Edition Brings the Heat to Crunchyroll July 2025 Home Video Slate Grave of the Fireflies Movie (Blu-ray + DVD) – Limited Edition SteelBook 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. SPECIAL FEATURES: Feature-length storyboards Deleted scenes Interviews with director Isao Takahata, critic Roger Ebert and more Available in North America on July 8, 2025 PRE-ORDER NOW
