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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2005, 04:05:52 PM »
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Spirited Away has very Japanese looking characters

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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2005, 05:26:25 PM »
I wouldn't consider any of the humans in Spirited Away to look very Japanese.
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2005, 07:29:38 PM »
I thought the parents did.
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2005, 09:12:47 PM »
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I thought the parents did.

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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2005, 02:28:40 AM »
It's been awhile since I saw it, but I thought the boy who was a Water Spirit looked Japanese.
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #20 on: December 16, 2005, 11:58:23 AM »
It was that one with slanty eyes.  He looked Japanese.
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #21 on: December 16, 2005, 12:28:03 PM »
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I thought the parents did.


Dad: big square jaw, huge space between upper lip and nose...I never saw any Japanese person that looked like that...

Mom: Tiny anime mouth, huge space between upper lip and nose...I never saw any Japanese person that looked like that...
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I thought the boy who was a Water Spirit looked Japanese.


Doesn't look Japanese at all to me...the clothes are pretty traditional, but face and hair? That hairstyle is fairly common in anime, but I never saw a single Japanese person with it...

To me, Miyazaki's character designs are all recognizably Miyazakiesque rather than Japanese or American.
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #22 on: December 16, 2005, 12:35:22 PM »
I've seen Japanese people like that...
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #23 on: December 16, 2005, 01:01:42 PM »
Mother looks american, father looks half caste.
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #24 on: December 16, 2005, 03:46:49 PM »
They don't really look American to me.

I tend to think they look Japanese, largely because animators tend to (read nearly always) exagerate facial characteristics. This makes certain motions easier to animate. I tend to also think of this as how the animators percieve themselves and the people around them. So if the animators are Japanese, then their creations are too.
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #25 on: December 16, 2005, 04:55:29 PM »
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2006, 02:34:08 AM »
look!  There's new news on the web!

http://www.ghibli.jp/20special/000357.html

The translator of the earthseas books to Japanese talks about working with Ghibli.  Didn't read all of it, it's quite long, but I did scan it a bit.

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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #27 on: April 17, 2006, 02:46:10 AM »
Trailor is up (in Japanese)

http://www.ghibli.jp/25trailer/
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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #28 on: April 17, 2006, 08:34:39 AM »
Sweet, I cant see it at work due to the firewall.

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Re: Wizard of earthsea Ghibli style
« Reply #29 on: April 17, 2006, 09:21:00 AM »
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