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_dracaena_ for making me take note of this:
Studio Ghibli's take on the Earthsea Quartet.
Squeeeeeeeeee~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG Even though it was a looooooooooong time ago since I last read le Guinn's works!!!! OMG!!!!!!!! *SQUEES SOME MORE*
I know there's bound to be at least one person who doesn't know of one thing or the other:
Studio Ghibli produced Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, to name only two out of a huge range of very popular anime movies. The Earthsea is a quartet of fantasy books written by the (American?) author Ursula le Guinn, and has quite strong Oriental/Taoist overtones (not that, mind you, I actually noticed when I was reading).
OMG and if you navigate the site and look at the sort of pictures they've done for the settings........omg I'm so excited!!! Studio Ghibli's surreal touch with animation is just going to make the dreamy fantasy of Earthsea really really cool!!! Besides that every one of Studio Ghibli's stuff is very very cool!!!!!!!!!!
It looks like this is based on the 3rd book....with Arren as main character? >__>
Oh Carmen! Lend me the books! XD (Oh, after I finish with Lymond of course, since the production's going to take a while) You MUST MUST MUST come with me to watch this!!!!!!! With English subtitles!!! No way I'm substituting crappy English dubbing for high quality Japanese voice acting XD
And I LOVE that song that plays at the site (Teruu no Uta, I think). The way the lone, boyish voice (or maybe it's meant to be a girl...hard to tell with these things) sings without the background music makes it so......empty and lonely..... the sort of quiet, resigned feel I remembered from the series. Hmm.
(The movie itself appears to be called "The Ged Wars" in Japanese, although the English subscript is "Tales from Earthsea")
_dracaena_ for making me take note of this:Studio Ghibli's take on the Earthsea Quartet.
Squeeeeeeeeee~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG Even though it was a looooooooooong time ago since I last read le Guinn's works!!!! OMG!!!!!!!! *SQUEES SOME MORE*
I know there's bound to be at least one person who doesn't know of one thing or the other:
Studio Ghibli produced Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, to name only two out of a huge range of very popular anime movies. The Earthsea is a quartet of fantasy books written by the (American?) author Ursula le Guinn, and has quite strong Oriental/Taoist overtones (not that, mind you, I actually noticed when I was reading).
OMG and if you navigate the site and look at the sort of pictures they've done for the settings........omg I'm so excited!!! Studio Ghibli's surreal touch with animation is just going to make the dreamy fantasy of Earthsea really really cool!!! Besides that every one of Studio Ghibli's stuff is very very cool!!!!!!!!!!
It looks like this is based on the 3rd book....with Arren as main character? >__>
Oh Carmen! Lend me the books! XD (Oh, after I finish with Lymond of course, since the production's going to take a while) You MUST MUST MUST come with me to watch this!!!!!!! With English subtitles!!! No way I'm substituting crappy English dubbing for high quality Japanese voice acting XD
And I LOVE that song that plays at the site (Teruu no Uta, I think). The way the lone, boyish voice (or maybe it's meant to be a girl...hard to tell with these things) sings without the background music makes it so......empty and lonely..... the sort of quiet, resigned feel I remembered from the series. Hmm.
(The movie itself appears to be called "The Ged Wars" in Japanese, although the English subscript is "Tales from Earthsea")
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Date: 2006-05-11 10:33 am (UTC)After the Ghibli version of Howl's Moving Castle, does this mean we'll be seeing more YA fantasy book adaptations? Can I demand hope for a Ghibli Time Quartet? (Because Calvin O'Keefe deserves to be animated and rooled upon by millions of fangirls.)
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Date: 2006-05-12 08:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-12 08:41 am (UTC)I'm not an enormous enormous fan of this series (I did like it a lot when I read it, but it's been such a long time and it's always been one of those series I liked enough but didn't love fanatically). I do believe in Studio Ghibli's ability to do a good job though, although I do have the feeling that the interpretation might be a bit awry.