One of my favorites over the years is getting a new lease on life with the Panda! Go Panda! property. It was originally released in North America by Geneon Entertainment and then rescued by Discotek Media with a DVD release. Now, GKIDS has picked up the property with home video plans set for it later this year in both Japanese and English. With details for that coming later, GKIDS also revealed plans for a limited theatrical event for it where it’ll be in high definition with newly restored colors.
Disney Japan last brought this out with a July 17th, 2015 release for the two episodes that were made on both DVD and Blu-ray. The DVD is priced at 4,700 yen and the Blu-ray at 5,800 yen. Both releases include Japanese and English language tracks as well as Japanese and English subtitles. Extras for the release look to be the theater notice, storyboards done as picture in picture as well as material from the Miyazaki exhibition.
Plot concept: Cheerful Mimiko has a very strange family for a little girl – a panda for her papa, and his son, Panny, calls her Mom! Join this happy family and their many adventures! When Panny follows Mimiko to school, he must pretend to be a teddy bear so Mimiko won’t get into trouble, but everyone wants a cute panda! Despite his efforts to behave, Panny causes trouble in the school kitchen, and now the whole school is after Panny!
Then, Panny makes a new friend: Tiny, a baby tiger who’s wandered off from the circus. Getting Tiny back to his mom becomes the first adventure, but after a hard rain, the whole town is flooded and Mimiko, Papa Panda, and Panny must rescue Tiny and other animals from the trapped circus train!
Good morning! We're thrilled to share that we'll be bringing Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's classic PANDA! GO PANDA! to North America later this year in its original Japanese and English dub! 🐼✨
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— GKIDS Films (@GKIDSfilms) March 23, 2022
