I posted this here and in the 'Highlight' thread... COOL!

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Classic anime movie showing leads to Twitter record


Suzanne Choney, NBC News

"Castle in the Sky" movie
Studio Ghibli

"Castle in the Sky" was released in Japan in 1986.

A movie many may have long forgotten is the reason behind a worldwide record number of tweets per second.

The television airing of Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 film, "Castle in the Sky" in Japan on Aug. 3 had a huge audience, "and at one moment they took to Twitter so much that we hit a one-second peak of 143,199 tweets per second," wrote Raffi Krikorian, Twitter's vice-president, platform engineering, on the site's blog.

Normally, Twitter handles more than 500 million tweets a day, or about 5,700 tweets a second "on average," Krikorian wrote. "This particular spike was around 25 times greater than our steady state."

"Castle in the Sky" was released in the U.S. in 1989, and its story — about a young princess and a boy with a magic crystal trying to outrace bad guys to save a legendary floating castle — captivated the hearts of many.

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Wow, incredible! Definitely an underrated Ghibli film, it always seems to get forgotten but is one of the most powerful in my opinion.

I want to attend a mass showing of Laputa Or maybe watch it in a drive through theatre!

Husky, can you call Miyazaki and ask him to arrange something ?

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~ No matter how many weapons you may have ~
~ No matter how great your technology may be ~
~ The world cannot live without love ~

I wish I knew Miyazaki and could ask him for something like that, but I am a Ghibli Studio fan like millions of others.

Sorry

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Funny how people consider it "long forgotten". Its only "long forgotten" because they personally have forgotten it a long time ago. In some people's minds its actually very much alive and well and deeply loved!

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This is a long shot, but I've tried asking everywhere and no one seems to know. Is there a blu ray edition of Castle in the Sky that contains the original english language dub on it? NOT the Disney dub with James Van Der Beek.
If anyone can help I'd be seriously grateful!