DISQUS

Score one for forward-thinking countries.

Who cares? Why is this news?

Check out Korean artist LEE BUL. (http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=ja...)

Sounds a little contrived. Then again, it's based on manga. I shouldn't really expect that much.

Whoop! Der it is!

Absolutely amazing. You have great talent. I wish I had it too.

Very sweet.

Change the law... if only it were that easy. The problem lies not within the law specifically, but within the culture. Japanese family registers are EVERYTHING to the Japanese. They mean as much as eating rice, using hanko (stamps) to sign official documents, and breathing to the Japanese. Thus the Japanese find it very difficult to just 'change laws' concerning them. This is, of course, silliness. But therein lies the problem. If it were easily changed, I suspect it would have already been done.

Change the law... if only it were that easy. The problem lies not within the law specifically, but within the culture. Japanese family registers are EVERYTHING to the Japanese. They mean as much as eating rice, using hanko (stamps) to sign official documents, and breathing to the Japanese. Thus the Japanese find it very difficult to just 'change laws' concerning them. This is, of course, silliness. But therein lies the problem. If it were easily changed, I suspect it would have already been done.

heh! i'd like to try this in japan. set up a cam and see who takes them. would be an interesting experiment.

You forget (or didn't know) that Kiki's had a budget far bigger than M-66 and was a full-length movie (compared to the OVA hour-long M-66) made at a time when Ghibli was the money maker in animation. You can't compare the two. Sponsors are EXTREMELY important in Japan. Nothing gets made without corporate sponsors. When 80s animation was being made, it was being made on shoe-strings many times. Is this the fault of the animator or animation houses (many of whom went bankrupt and are now gone)? No. It's not. So before you start comparing movies and spouting off about how good animation is today or even in the 90s, don't forget that it was the 70s and 80s generation fans who are NOW MAKING animation. If it weren't for their love of the comparatively 'bad' animation of yesterdecades, you wouldn't be enjoying the great animation of today. Oh... and now that Shirow's work is so well recognized and well-to-do (thanks to little diddies like M-66 and others) Ghibli now works on Shirow's latest projects, cuz they can't cut it anymore.