With Kadokawa having brought out Night on the Galactic Railroad in Japan last year on Blu-ray, there are definitely hopes that the North American acquisition by Discotek Media can be done in the same way. What may help to bolster that hope is that the German distribution AV Visionen has now set a new Blu-ray and DVD release themselves this year, which means the materials should be available. Their release is now scheduled for March 27th, 2015 in both formats. The releases will feature the Japanese language track with German language subtitles as well as the previously produced German language dub, both of which are encoded using the DTS-HD MA 5.1 mixes they have.
Plot concept: Based on a short story by the popular children`s writer Kenji Miyazawa, Galactic Railroad offers viewers a slow-paced, dreamlike journey through space and time. When Giovanni, a lonely boy in a hill town, goes to get milk for his ailing mother, he finds himself crossing the Milky Way on a faster-than-light steam railroad. The stations he visits in various constellations, like the planets explored by St. Exupery`s Little Prince, offer curious adventures and an assortment of human “types.” Reality and fantasy blur aboard the train, and its travels across the light-years sometimes suggests the journey through life. The characters as depicted as cats, presumably to avoid the problems of animating humans.
[Source: The Life of Budori Gusuko]
