Well, the old Manga Video version of Cagliostro (with the climbing Lupin on the cover) should be pretty widely/cheaply available now, if only from people (misguidedly) selling it to upgrade to the new Spec Ed version, so you might as well pick that one up. It's decently done; its only major flaw is that it's not anamorphic, and if you don't have an HD or anamorphic-compatible TV set, that won't matter as much to you.
The spec-ed version, well, apart from the "duh" with the title sequence, it's really pretty good. It's just that the title sequence thing is a bad enough flaw that if I hadn't already bought the thing, I wouldn't be buying it.
There are some non-R1 DVD versions that might be more worth getting; the R2 Japanese version even has the old Streamline Cagliostro dub on it, which some people prefer to the new Manga Video one. However, its only English subtitles are "dubtitles" that go with the Streamline dub, rather than a literal translation of the Japanese dialogue. I gather that a UK PAL version has proper subtitling and everything—but being PAL, it would run 6% faster and you would need a PAL-capable as well as multi-region capable player.
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The spec-ed version, well, apart from the "duh" with the title sequence, it's really pretty good. It's just that the title sequence thing is a bad enough flaw that if I hadn't already bought the thing, I wouldn't be buying it.
There are some non-R1 DVD versions that might be more worth getting; the R2 Japanese version even has the old Streamline Cagliostro dub on it, which some people prefer to the new Manga Video one. However, its only English subtitles are "dubtitles" that go with the Streamline dub, rather than a literal translation of the Japanese dialogue. I gather that a UK PAL version has proper subtitling and everything—but being PAL, it would run 6% faster and you would need a PAL-capable as well as multi-region capable player.