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Studio Ghibli, Animation and the Movies"},"subtitle":{"type":"html","$t":""},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/-\/mononoke?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=5"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/mononoke"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/-\/mononoke\/-\/mononoke?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=6\u0026max-results=5"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Thomas MacInnes"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01406180871529775448"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4189\/2600\/1600\/me07_ghibliblog.0.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"40"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-7631163053531131185"},"published":{"$t":"2014-11-21T14:06:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-11-21T14:06:38.193-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"books"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mononoke"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New Miyazaki Book: Princess Mononoke: The First Story"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OgjIviV0cYc\/UxymfxhNGhI\/AAAAAAAAI0c\/zAq_y_eNibo\/s1600\/002.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OgjIviV0cYc\/UxymfxhNGhI\/AAAAAAAAI0c\/zAq_y_eNibo\/s1600\/002.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"322\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENewly published from Viz Media is Hayao Miyazaki's famous storyboard book, \"Princess Mononoke: The First Story.\" This story consists of watercolor image boards created by Miyazaki in 1980 for an unrealized film project. The artwork was first published in his 1983 artbook, \"Hayao Miyazaki Image Boards,\" and ten years later as a standalone volume.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI've written about\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/history-on-miyazakis-mononoke-book.html\"\u003E the history behind the 1980 Mononoke Hime\u003C\/a\u003E, going into greater detail, so I won't recount that tale yet again here. I also published the entire story, with fan translations, on Ghibli Blog back in 2008, eventually finding its way across the internet and generating great interest in Hayao Miyazaki's \"lost\" anime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have edited\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/mononoke-hime-1980-original-miyazaki.html\"\u003E my 2008 Mononoke post\u003C\/a\u003E to remove all but a small sample of pages. And now I strongly urge all Miyazaki fans to purchase this new book. The quality of the paintings is superb, and the presentation is the same high calibur we expect from Viz. This is an excellent storybook, one that will make wonderful gifts for friends and family this holiday season.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHayao Miyazaki's manga comics remain largely unknown to Western audiences.\u0026nbsp; I do hope this latest release will begin to turn that around. There should be a whole series of \"Hayao Miyazaki Comics\" in our libraries and bookstores.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EP.S. The 1980 Princess Mononoke share nothing in common with Miyazaki's 1997 blockbuster anime film, apart from the heroine, who reappears in the movie as Ashitaka's love interest. Mononoke, the giant cat, obviously resembes a close cousin to Papa Panda and Totoro. And some of the scene designs would resurface as the bath house in Spirited Away."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7631163053531131185\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=24969765\u0026postID=7631163053531131185\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/7631163053531131185"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/7631163053531131185"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/new-miyazaki-book-princess-mononoke.html","title":"New Miyazaki Book: Princess Mononoke: The First Story"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Thomas MacInnes"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01406180871529775448"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4189\/2600\/1600\/me07_ghibliblog.0.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OgjIviV0cYc\/UxymfxhNGhI\/AAAAAAAAI0c\/zAq_y_eNibo\/s72-c\/002.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-70437233124104012"},"published":{"$t":"2014-11-19T07:41:00.003-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-11-19T07:41:54.268-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blu-ray"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kiki's delivery service"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mononoke"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the wind rises"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New Studio Ghibli Blu-Ray Movies Released This Week"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4xZvdR39IBs\/VGyaRrZfl8I\/AAAAAAAAI-c\/m1YRDpSJFnk\/s1600\/wind%2Brises%2Bbd.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4xZvdR39IBs\/VGyaRrZfl8I\/AAAAAAAAI-c\/m1YRDpSJFnk\/s1600\/wind%2Brises%2Bbd.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"326\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs all good Ghibli Freaks know, this week sees the release of three new Studio Ghibli Blu-Ray movies in the USA: The Wind Rises, Princess Mononoke, and Kiki's Delivery Service.\u0026nbsp; It's always so rare that we get anything released by Disney at all, having three movies at once is especially grand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI haven't had a chance to examine these BDs for myself, but reviews have been mostly positive. Picture quality should be excellent, if a step below the Japanese BDs, color tones will be rich, warm and extremely detailed. Studio Ghibli looks so much better on high definition over DVD, it's worth upgrading your home theater system just for these movies.\u0026nbsp; But that's just my opinion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only negative is that Mononoke uses dubtitles - what, \"dubtitles?\" - instead of the literal English translation from earlier releases.\u0026nbsp; That's completely baffling and frustrating, but it wouldn't be the first time this has happened; Disney's US Blu-Ray of Castle in the Sky is also plagued with incorrect subtitles.\u0026nbsp; It's a puzzling oversight, and one that's completely unnecessary.\u0026nbsp; Because of this, I cannot recommend the US release over the Japanese.\u0026nbsp; That's just me.\u0026nbsp; If you prefer Neil Gaiman's US script, then you'll be perfectly happy with this release.\u0026nbsp; It was a fairly good anime dub for its time, more respectful than most.\u0026nbsp; But it still would be nice to enjoy the Japanese soundtrack as well, and using incorrect subtitles detracts from that experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKiki's Delivery Service, similarly, also uses dubtitles instead of a literal translation, but this has always been the case. We have never had proper subtitles of this movie, in any format. Fortunately, the subtitles are taken from the old Streamline Pictures dub, which was very enjoyable.\u0026nbsp; There's one throwaway joke about the Hindenberg that I could do away with, but it's never really bothered me. Kiki is underrated in the Miyazaki canon; for me, it continues the gentle, pastoral pace of My Neighbor Totoro, and its insights on emerging adolescence, and any period of transition in one's life, ring true.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYears ago, I was grappling with long-term unemployment, the kind where you fear that you'll never find work again. When watching Kiki's Delivery Service, the scene where Kiki sat in a park, lost and uncertain, stuck me to my core. I felt that moment, that disorientation, that worry.\u0026nbsp; Where will I go?\u0026nbsp; What will happen to me?\u0026nbsp; That scene has always resonated in my memory, because of my experience.\u0026nbsp; If there's anything I respect about Miyazaki, it's his emotional honesty.\u0026nbsp; This is a great movie.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd The Wind Rises? Still a masterpiece, still controversial, but always destined to spark debates and deep discussions about Miyazaki, World War II, and the movies.\u0026nbsp; It was criminally ignored by the so-called fans when it was released in US theaters early this year.\u0026nbsp; Here is your chance for redemption, kids."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/feeds\/70437233124104012\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=24969765\u0026postID=70437233124104012\u0026isPopup=true","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/70437233124104012"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/70437233124104012"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/new-studio-ghibli-blu-ray-movies.html","title":"New Studio Ghibli Blu-Ray Movies Released This Week"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Thomas MacInnes"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01406180871529775448"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4189\/2600\/1600\/me07_ghibliblog.0.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4xZvdR39IBs\/VGyaRrZfl8I\/AAAAAAAAI-c\/m1YRDpSJFnk\/s72-c\/wind%2Brises%2Bbd.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-7606628935947576401"},"published":{"$t":"2014-03-09T10:34:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-03-09T12:31:27.242-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"books"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mononoke"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Viz Media to Release \"The Art of Princess Mononoke\" - Is a Disney Blu-Ray Coming Soon?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-r3Sx7_Ronus\/UxylWxC2LhI\/AAAAAAAAI0U\/iiDV3jNaWio\/s1600\/mononoke+book.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-r3Sx7_Ronus\/UxylWxC2LhI\/AAAAAAAAI0U\/iiDV3jNaWio\/s1600\/mononoke+book.gif\" height=\"400\" width=\"277\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EViz Media announced this week that, in addition to publishing Hayao Miyazaki's 1980 Mononoke Hime (based on a series of image boards for an unrealized animation project), they will be publishing \"The Art of Princess Mononoke,\" as part of the continuing Studio Ghibli art book series. \u0026nbsp;The book will arrive in bookstores this October.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis release will officially replace the long out-of-print edition published by Miramax, \"Princess Mononoke: The Art and Making of Japan's Most Popular Film of All Time.\" \u0026nbsp;That book was also based on Ghibli's official art book. \u0026nbsp;I haven't seen that edition in many years, so I cannot remember if there were any exclusive pages or essays that won't appear in Viz Media's edition. \u0026nbsp;We'll just have to wait and see.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd now for the larger question: Does the publication of two Mononoke Hime-themed books mean Disney is planning to release the Blu-Ray edition of the film? \u0026nbsp;It was released in Japan just in time for Christmas last year (along with The Cat Returns the Favor\/Ghiblies Episode 2), and should be arriving around the world in due course. \u0026nbsp;Unfortunately, as we all know, the relationship between Studio Ghibli and Disney over this film was rocky and contentious. \u0026nbsp;It's never a good sign when the studio boss wakes up to find a loaded weapon in his mailbox.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Miramax split from Disney, they took Princess Mononoke with them, as they were the official distributor in the US. \u0026nbsp;It appeared the rights would be lost in legal limbo; fortunately, Disney quietly reacquired those rights a couple years ago, and reissued the DVD, with the blue-and-gold label. \u0026nbsp;This was done with almost no fanfare, and, probably don't even know this release even exists. \u0026nbsp;Heck, I didn't know about it until I saw a copy at Barnes \u0026amp; Noble's last year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Disney signed a distribution deal with Studio Ghibli, they were interested in Hayao Miyazaki's children's movies like My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service. \u0026nbsp;The last thing they ever expected from the Japanese filmmaker was a bloody and brutally violent Ford-Kurosawa epic. \u0026nbsp;In a society where animation exists almost solely as \"the electric babysitter,\" Princess Mononoke came as a shock, and relations between the two parties were notably damaged, until Pixar's John Lasseter came to the rescue in 2002.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the Blu-Ray front, Disney in the US has fallen so far behind Japan and the rest of the world, I've all but given up hope. \u0026nbsp;They have little interest in selling movies that don't sell in this country, especially when Disney holds no merchandising or character rights (\"where the real money from the movie is made.\") \u0026nbsp;And the box office returns for The Wind Rises are absolutely dreadful. \u0026nbsp;And so there is very little demand, or interest, by either Disney or the general public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe two new Mononoke books give hope that we'll see the Blu-Ray on our shores. \u0026nbsp;On that topic, I'll move the dial from \"Never in a Million Years\" to \"Maybe.\" \u0026nbsp;For our side, I'll count that as a win.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7606628935947576401\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=24969765\u0026postID=7606628935947576401\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/7606628935947576401"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/7606628935947576401"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/viz-media-to-release-art-of-princess.html","title":"Viz Media to Release \"The Art of Princess Mononoke\" - Is a Disney Blu-Ray Coming Soon?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Thomas MacInnes"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01406180871529775448"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4189\/2600\/1600\/me07_ghibliblog.0.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-r3Sx7_Ronus\/UxylWxC2LhI\/AAAAAAAAI0U\/iiDV3jNaWio\/s72-c\/mononoke+book.gif","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-1216701218834421807"},"published":{"$t":"2014-03-07T12:48:00.004-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-03-09T12:36:53.287-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"books"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mononoke"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hayao Miyazaki's 1980 Mononoke Hime Book Coming to USA"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OgjIviV0cYc\/UxymfxhNGhI\/AAAAAAAAI0c\/zAq_y_eNibo\/s1600\/002.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OgjIviV0cYc\/UxymfxhNGhI\/AAAAAAAAI0c\/zAq_y_eNibo\/s1600\/002.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"322\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGood News, Everyone! Viz Media will publish Hayao Miyazaki's Mononoke Hime picture book this October in the USA. Retail price will be $34.95. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe original Mononoke Hime began as a film project in 1980. Miyazaki created a complete set of image boards, rendered in pencil and watercolor, and sought out producers to finance the project. He was unsuccessful in this quest. He eventually published the image boards and story in his 1983 art book, Hayao Miyazaki Image Boards. In 1993, Mononoke Hime was published as a stand-alone picture book, and this is the version that Viz will be publishing in the States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis period of Miyazaki's career - late 1970s to early 1980s - is very interesting. It's a time of setback and struggle; the glory days of Toei Doga, of Heidi and Marco, his collaborations with Isao Takahata, are fading in the distant past. His own attempts to establish himself as a sole director in his own right - 1978's Future Boy Conan, 1979's Lupin the 3rd: Castle of Cagliostro, 1981's Sherlock Hound (Famous Detective Holmes) - were met with failure on the small screen, the big screen, and behind the scenes. Despite the excellence of his work, the peak of his cliffhanger serial period, the director could not find an audience willing to accept him. And so a number of film projects, including Mononoke Hime and My Neighbor Totoro, languished for lack of interest and lack of funds. By 1982, it appeared that his anime career was all but finished.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne could see his return to manga comics, with the monthly serial Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind in 1982, the graphic novel The Journey of Shuna in 1983, the publication of his Image Boards book the same year, as Hayao Miyazaki's farewell to animation, a return to his earlier passion, comics. Others could see this period as a regrouping, of healing wounds and plotting the comeback, a period of evolution. When Miyazaki was given the chance to direct the Nausicaa anime film in 1983\/84, the heroic optimism of his youth had burned away, and what emerged was darker, and more emotionally complex, and with a new sadness underneath the surface. Hayao Miyazaki, the Personal Filmmaker, was .\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor our interests, the 1980 Mononoke is a fascinating look into the younger Miyazaki of the 1970s, whose stories were clean and direct. This is a children's fairy tale far removed from the emotionally wrenching 1997 John Ford-Kurosawa epic. It's fun and amusing and entertaining, and it doesn't aim to be anything else. It's fascinating to imagine how Miyazaki and his animators could have realized these image boards. The giant cat, of course, reminds us of Totoro, and I think that's why this storybook is popular with fans. I expect this book to become a hit when it reaches bookstores in October; it's closer to what Miyazaki fans actually want, instead of a confessional melodrama like The Wind Rises.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAnd now a personal note.\u003C\/b\u003E I posted the complete set of the 1980 Mononoke image boards, which were translated into English. After a few years, it was finally discovered by the internet and spread like wildfire. To this day, this is the most popular post in the history of Ghibli Blog. I am very humbled and thankful to have played a role in spreading awareness of this, and many other, works from the careers of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt has always been my dream that these films, comics and books would be released in the US. And now that Mononoke Hime is being published, I will soon delete the comic from that post, so as not to hurt Viz Media's book sales. The role of this website is to preserve history and build a community, not steal or exploit. I urge everyone to purchase this book when it is released, and support those who invest time and money on these projects. Show your support with your dollars and help to build this community."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1216701218834421807\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=24969765\u0026postID=1216701218834421807\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/1216701218834421807"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/1216701218834421807"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/hayao-miyazakis-1980-mononoke-hime.html","title":"Hayao Miyazaki's 1980 Mononoke Hime Book Coming to USA"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Thomas MacInnes"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01406180871529775448"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4189\/2600\/1600\/me07_ghibliblog.0.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OgjIviV0cYc\/UxymfxhNGhI\/AAAAAAAAI0c\/zAq_y_eNibo\/s72-c\/002.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-2548939955894371172"},"published":{"$t":"2014-02-23T01:21:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-02-23T01:21:15.654-06:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mononoke"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Neil Gaiman Discusses Princess Mononoke"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I honestly cannot remember if I ever shared this \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodgothique.com\/gaiman.html\"\u003E2005 Neil Gaiman interview\u003C\/a\u003E, in which he discusses his US dub translation for Princess Mononoke.\u0026nbsp; In any case, it's a worthy piece of history that should be preserved and shared.\u0026nbsp; It's a fascinating glimpse into the sausage-making of movies, of struggling to bring a blockbuster anime film to the United States at a time when \"anime\" was borderline toxic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKids today don't realize just how badly the grownups were scared by Japanese animation.\u0026nbsp; It was all so, well...alien.\u0026nbsp; It's a miracle that these movies were ever released on our shores at all.\u0026nbsp; Thank God for those brave pioneers who carved the trails."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2548939955894371172\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=24969765\u0026postID=2548939955894371172\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/2548939955894371172"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/24969765\/posts\/default\/2548939955894371172"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/ghiblicon.blogspot.com\/2014\/02\/neil-gaiman-discusses-princess-mononoke.html","title":"Neil Gaiman Discusses Princess Mononoke"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Thomas MacInnes"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01406180871529775448"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4189\/2600\/1600\/me07_ghibliblog.0.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});