‘Animation & Manga’ Archives
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Kiki's Delivery Service was released in 1989 in Japan. The previous movie, TOTORO, was also a family type animated movie and this Kiki's Delivery Service followed the same line. Personally I like Castle in the sky or Nausicaa of the valley of the winds first of all because the message and dream of people are fantastic. However, most of family [...]
Princess Mononoke
PRINCESS MONONOKE still has the 3rd box record in Japanese cinema history ( NO1. is Sprited away and 2nd is Howl's moving castle ). From this work, Miyazaki became the carismatic movie director, not only a magical animation producer. Princess Mononoke has a strong theme or message to today's society. In that sense, PRINCESS MONONOKE is often [...]
Spirited Away, the highest grossed movie of all time
SPIRITED AWAY may be the most famous movie of Miyazaki animation in the world because this one took Academy award, Gold Award at Berlin Film Festival, and a number of awards both in Japan and in the world. In this sense, Spirited Away is the highest achievement of Miyazaki works. If you know Miyazaki animation works, you might be thinking that [...]
Nausicaa of the valley of the wind
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is Mr.Hayao Miyazaki's first theater animation ever made. He was working at a production company at the time and he was making comic books for Nausicaa's basic works before making film. Maybe he was not satisfied with the job at the company, he recalled the days at the company later like " My suggestion of TOTORO [...]
TOTORO is a symbol of our heart
My Neighbor Totoro is a imaginary story which is based on Japanese time of 1958. That time, Japan was still trying hard to recover from the damage of the war in both economy and spirit of people. Although the material world in Japan is not at all as enough as present time, some kind of pure hope and dream for the future filled the hearts of the [...]
Laputa as No.1
LAPUTA of the sky castle is the Japanese original title. "Castle in the sky" is a good conversion in English. This story was based on the imaginary castle in the sky which was casted in 19th century of Wales, UK. Miyazaki went to Wales England some years before this movies production started, so maybe the image of the trip influenced his basic [...]
Meiji University Manga Library will open
Meiji University announced they will open a new Manga and Animation ( Anime) Library in the university and they will start preparing for the opening in 5 years. The library will have over 2 million items, which will be the biggest collection in Japan. Now Manga or animation is a kind of new culture for world youngster. This library will [...]
Anime or Animation becomes Global Standard
// Japanese animation is becoming more popular in the world. Animation is called ANIME in Japan just like a nickname, but this nickname is also becoming world wide standard when fans mean Japanese animation. Among Japanese animation works, there are some very high quality works as Hayao Miyazaki's works, who won many prizes in the world [...]
Castle in the Sky changed my mind
Laputa, or the English title, Castle in the Sky, is probably my most favourite work of Hayao Miyazaki. First of all, I watched this movie when I was young, maybe in the middle 20's, so all the impression I got was fresh and unforgettable. Timing was good to see this for me. Of course this movie still tells me a lot, but the first impression was [...]
Yakushima & Mononoke Hime (Princes Mononoke)
Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece, Princess Mnonoke ( Mononoke Hime) was released in 1997. That's 10 years ago but the quality of the film still remains the same without getting old. Pricess Mononoke was really a total masterpiece in plot, art, and fusion of the talent. Staff of Hayao Miyazaki film team went to Yakushima island situated [...]
