Delivery
Delivery noun - A freeing from an obligation or responsibility.
Usage example: the school bell signaled our delivery from the tortures of math class
Release is a synonym for delivery in setting free topic. In some cases you can use "Release" instead a noun "Delivery", when it comes to topics like giving of freedom.
Release
Release noun - A freeing from an obligation or responsibility.
Usage example: because they had legally declared bankruptcy, they received release from their debt
Delivery is a synonym for release in setting free topic. You can use "Delivery" instead a noun "Release", if it concerns topics such as liberation.
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Follow the Leader: A strange example - this film came only two years after Overnight Delivery and has an very similar plot, but Overnight Delivery was a direct-to-video release, hardly a big success.
Source: Film / Road Trip - Streamline Pictures dubbed and/or distributed Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro (with a home video release from 20th Century Fox) and Porco Rosso in the late 80s/early 90s before Disney picked up the rights and redubbed/re-released them all.
Source: Channel Hop -
Kiki's Delivery Service had its 1998 dub tweaked for its 2010 North American DVD re-release, reverting the music to match the Japanese version, and removing some dialogue that created Lull Destruction.
Source: Digital Destruction
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