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Iblard Jikan

by Mappy » Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:32 pm

Anyone grabbing this new oav series by Ghibli? (Gasp.... Ghibli does OAVs.... :wink: )

http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?s ... e&aid=5099
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Re: Iblard Jikan

by Pirate Man » Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:09 pm

Mappy wrote:Anyone grabbing this new oav series by Ghibli? (Gasp.... Ghibli does OAVs.... :wink: )

http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?s ... e&aid=5099


hmm I grab it and hopefully have it by tonight
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by Ryan White » Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:03 pm

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by Mappy » Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:22 pm

*Deletes it from his schedule*

Saves me a bit of time.

Looking at the title, I initially though it had something to do with Kodomo no Jikan.... Good thing it doesn't.
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by Dhumahn » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:11 am

Ghibli + minderjährigen mädchen....yeah, you're right, bad mix. 8)
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by Bazza » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:33 am

>>minderjährigen mädchen

I'll have to look this up...

Actually, never mind.
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by Mappy » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:39 am

Dhumahn wrote:Ghibli + minderjährigen mädchen....yeah, you're right, bad mix. 8)


Despite the fact that most of Ghibli's main characters are young girls.

When one looks at Ghibli's list of productions, there are a lot of things they've made that we never get to see, some of which have only ever been shown at the Ghibli Museum and are not available on dvd.... Iblard Jikan is a spinoff of one of those museum-only titles....

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by Last Exile » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:40 am

Mappy wrote:
Dhumahn wrote:Ghibli + minderjährigen mädchen....yeah, you're right, bad mix. 8)


Despite the fact that most of Ghibli's main characters are young girls.

When one looks at Ghibli's list of productions, there are a lot of things they've made that we never get to see, some of which have only ever been shown at the Ghibli Museum and are not available on dvd.... Iblard Jikan is a spinoff of one of those museum-only titles....

http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?s ... er&prid=13


If you type 'moe' into Wikipedia, you learn that Miyazaki was unintentionally the trigger for the whole moe fad. :P
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by Mappy » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:36 pm

I knew there was something we could blame him for. 8)
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by Last Exile » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:41 pm

Mappy wrote:I knew there was something we could blame him for. 8)


We can also blame him for being a completely useless father IRL which then caused him to focus on his anime children. Hey, maybe he did create moe intentionally, in that case!
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by Ryan White » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:47 pm

Except that Miyazaki loathes moé.
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by Last Exile » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:56 pm

Then it makes a delicious irony that the one who loathes it started it.
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by Mappy » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:19 pm

Last Exile wrote:We can also blame him for being a completely useless father IRL


He certainly didn't pass much of his talent down to his son, if Tales of Earthsea is anything to go by....
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by Ryan White » Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:07 am

I liked Tales of Earthsea. Given that Miyazaki usually writes the movies as well as directing them his work will always seem better than his son's until we can judge against one written by the son.
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by Mappy » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:36 am

Well, I'd pretty much cast Tales of Earthsea at the bottom of the list when it comes to Ghibli films. Yes, even lower than I Can Hear the Sea, Yamadas and Laputa. But it still has a higher re-watchability than Grave of the Fireflies.
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by stormy001 » Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:28 pm

Fireflies is one of the most brilliant Miyazaki work. I watched it few times and it still resonates with me.

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by Ryan White » Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:12 pm

Except the Grave of the Fireflies was directed by Isao Takahata. I rate it below Tree Boy and the Walking Volcano, at least I can mercilessly pay that movie out.
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by Last Exile » Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:11 pm

Laputa was great. It's blutig Princess Mononoke that was the lowlight. God, every time I watch that I want to punch those lead characters so hard. The message was clear but those characters were so dense, not to mention mürrisch.
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by Mappy » Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:23 pm

The first time I watched Grave was close to the last. I really felt almost nothing from the film.... No, actually, that would be wrong. I felt they were trying far, far too hard to elicit a sympathetic response for the characters. The kind of cloying, emotional manipulation that I'd come to mistrust from films that have been made to an agenda and/or rhetoric, rather than for the purpose of telling a story. About the only part that really resonated was the final scene.... But it wasn't enough to save the film for me.

It isn't a film you're supposed to enjoy, but that doesn't mean films with Bad Endings should fuel a need to erase your only copy and replace it with Yousei Hime Ren.

I got more out of Takahata's Only Yesterday, and even admire his efforts on Akage no Anne.
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by Last Exile » Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:53 pm

Tahakata got me most with Whisper of the Heart. Only Yesterday was interesting to a point but eventually too slow and a path I'd rather avoid.
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by Mappy » Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:14 pm

Whisper was directed by the late Yoshifumi Kondo, who was, at that time, being groomed as Miyazaki's number 2 at Ghibli and expected to be the person who would take over when Miyazaki finally retired. His death from an aneurism (attributed to overwork) in 1998 almost did lead to Miyazaki's retirement.
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by Last Exile » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:12 pm

Dammit I was always told it was the other guy. It didn't seem like one of Taka's work.
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