Search Results for: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the Hayao Miyazaki manga/anime that helped launch Studio Ghibli, is getting a kabuki stage play in Japan. This is the first kabuki play based on a Miyazaki or Ghibli film, and will star two greats of the kabuki …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s classic Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind depicts an epic battle of the beasts, as a so-called Giant Monster takes on a swarm of Ohm in one of the film’s climactic scenes. Now one creative soul has recreated that iconic battle with …Read more »
Fans of Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind will remember Nausicaa’s main method of transport was a sleek one-man glider called a Mehve. The Mehve is a work of fiction, but one man, Kazuhiko Hachiya, has been working on a real-life version …Read more »
Hideaki Anno: the legendary animator and director of megahits Neon Genesis Evangelion and Shin Godzilla is, ostensibly, living pretty well these days. But that wasn’t always the case. In the wake of Shin Godzilla ’s success, a short autobiographical manga written by Anno in 1984 …Read more »
Tomboys, spitfires, or the plain and simple “girls who kick ass.” However you describe them, the long history of anime and manga is full of these characters, and choosing the top ten is no easy task. Users of ranking site Goo, however, took up the …Read more »
The Tokyo International Film Festival, one of Asia’s most important film fests, will devote a section to Hideaki Anno, creator and director of Evangelion . Anno, a co-founder of studio Gainax, is one of the most influential and important anime directors of the last twenty …Read more »
Several of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies have been made into stage plays: Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and Spirited Away is getting international audiences. Now another Miyazaki project is getting the stage play treatment: Future Boy Conan. The …Read more »
The “great anime titles we’ll never see released in the U.S.” list continues to shrink, because after 35 years of waiting—easy to write, but try LIVING it—it has finally happened: for the first time ever, the Greek mythology inspired Neo Heroic Fantasia Arion is legally …Read more »
There’s a lot of talk about live-action adaptations lately, from rumors that a Demon Slayer show is in the works to casting news for the upcoming Cowboy Bebop series. But for some fans, a live-action adaptation stomps all over the memories of their favorite anime. …Read more »
Ever watched an anime and thought, “man, it’d be great if that cute animal were my pet?” Sure you have. So have 12,476 readers of Japanese site Anime Anime, who ranked the anime creatures they’d most want around the house. Here are their top 10 …Read more »
Of all the anime studios out there, Studio Ghibli seems to be the most adept at jerking those tears loose. Over its three decades of anime production, the studio has produced films that keep fans welling up—sometimes out of sadness, sometimes out of happiness, and …Read more »
Studio Ghibli: the legendary studio is known for creating some of the best and most financially successful anime films of all time, but it’s also had its share of failures. Ever wondered how much Studio Ghibli’s movies cost to make, and how much the studio …Read more »
Animator Makiko Futaki, whose work at Ghibli spans the entirety of the studio’s filmography, has died at age 58. Futaki died of an unspecified illness on May 13. Futaki, who was born in 1957 in Osaka, began her career at Telecom Animation Film Co., Ltd. …Read more »
Anime fans’ first taste of the complicated honorific style of Japanese speech known as keigo often comes in the form of titles attached to the end of one’s name. One of the most respectful of these titles is “sama,” which is often translated as “sir” …Read more »
Studio Ghibli: the legendary anime studio founded by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki after the completion of their film Nausicaa really needs no introduction. Beloved by anime fans and mainstream film lovers alike, Ghibli’s films have become essential viewing in their native Japan …Read more »
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