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> This is the first I've heard of either, but then
> again I don't keep up with the times as much as I
> should, haha. I like what I see of "Mirai", it
> looks like it takes its time-warping premise
> seriously, and also doesn't skimp on all the
> roughness of family life and childhood. Has all
> the potential to be strange, complex, and
> definitely interesting. I'll keep an eye out for
> this!
>
> For anyone interested, Miyazaki drew a sort of
> picture-story book depicting a desolate, ancient
> world full of eerie mysteries and vanishing
> civilizations. It has much in common with both
> Zothique and Hyperborea, from its melancholic
> atmosphere to its bizarre creatures, and might
> appeal to people interested in CAS.
>
> [www.deviantart.com]
> ey-of-Shuna-Miyazaki-PDF-English-542635900
>
> On a note slightly more connected with this
> thread, I find it a shame that Miyazaki's films
> can be so popular, even in the States, yet no
> popular studios, writers, directors, etc. attempt
> to be even half-way as nuanced as his work. I
> notice when the children in my family watch most
> films, they'll babble over it, poke fun at it,
> laugh, yet whenever they catch sight of a Miyazaki
> film, they sit there in silent investment, and
> come out of it as if they were changed, whether
> momentarily or in the long run.

Whoa! There's so much to talk about in Miyazaki. There's the ideas of positive encouragement of traditional virtues, as in Kiki, dealing with scary stuff (Spirited Away, Totoro), but then for me there were the epics--Princess Monoake and Nausicaa, Howl's Moving Castle.

> Perhaps if
> children had more opportunities to experience
> films that encourage silence, complexity, beauty,
> thoughtfulness, and truly strange things, it would
> help a little to encourage them to look beyond any
> thoughtless crassness that gets repeated to them
> again and again with no explanation.

--Sawfish

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