(Part 2) Top products from r/ghibli

I'm really looking forward to "When Marnie Was There" since I loved "Only Yesterday", "From Up On Poppy Hill", and all the slice-of-life elements of "Whisper of the Heart". I know from experience that some adolescent friendships are better defined purely as relationships because they blur the lines between romance, affection, and companionship.

For those of you interested in the book, it's being republished in the beginning of 2015, which is nice because copies of the book have gone for some very strange prices on the market since the movie was announced.

Priscilla Ahn's series of blog posts about the movie and meeting Miyazaki were very sweet. I can't wait to see the film and will enjoy and support whatever creative direction Ghibli decides to take.

Have you found additional details for the timing of the translator change at Viz? I think the publication and localisation history for Nausicaä around the world is fascinating.

> The (second) translator's perspective.

A four star review with that header was posted on Amazon, on October 10, 2003, for an earlier English edition, titled "Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind". The reviewer continued:

> "I translated the last 3/7 of this series, and in nine years of translating about 5000 pages of manga, this was the best and most important title I worked on. If you go way back to the earliest reviews here (1998), you'll find some very nice comments by Toren Smith about my translation, but I must say Toren and Dana's was a hard act to follow. They did an excellent job on the first 4/7, and my biggest challenge was to maintain both their tone and their level of quality. [...]"

and went on quite a bit longer. The whole review is an illuminating read, too.

Don't know if you've found your way there but Rachel Thorn offers fascinating perspectives, retrospectives, on Nausicaä, on translations, on her Twitter account, among other places.

I think I'm going to go with The Art of Howl's Moving Castle.

It looks awesome and I think any fan would love it.

Thanks for the help!

I purchased all my books on iTunes, since it was easier for me. But I can link them, and you can go from there :)
When Marnie Was There
#1 A Wizard of Earthsea
#2 The Tombs of Atuan
#3 The Farthest Shore
#4 Tehanu
#5 The Other Wind
Tales from Earthsea
Howl's Moving Castle Kindle that includes the trilogy for $2 or Howl's Moving Castle physical
Castle in the Air
House of Many Ways
And going to cheat and link the complete set of The Borrowers, since it's pretty cheap.
Honestly, if you are looking to purchase elsewhere, the authors are really all you need to make sure you are getting the correct books.

I will check when I get home, but I imagine there are some (lesser quality and definitely less comprehensive) images like this in here: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Howls-Moving-Castle/dp/1421500493

The image posted by the top upvoted comment comes from this.

Grave Of The Fireflies and Poppy Hill are already on blu-ray in the US.

My Neighbors The Yamadas is the only one yet to be put out by Disney.

GKids will release When Marnie Was There later this year/early next?

Also not technically Ghibli but Lupin III Castle of Cagliostro, early Hayao Miyazaki film, just went up for pre-order on Amazon today as well.

And we can only hope that we get Only Yesterday and Ocean Waves someday.

The Zero, or it's early variant appears in a flypast towards the end. The imaginary plane is his own childhood invention. The A5M is the plane he works on during the film. The book is worth reading if you are into aviation design. The comic is harder to find.

I found one on Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EAR76YM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_dcF3AbQZHX36A

https://smile.amazon.com/Ghibli-Calcifer-Kitchen-Pancake-Benelic/dp/B00EAR76YM/

Here's a link!

In addition to the other commentors

Kiki's Delivery Service book 1 out of 6, the others were never localized.

Castle in the Sky is based on Gulliver's Travels

The Cat Returns, a manga.

Ponyo is based on The Little Mermaid. Many iterations of this story but why not read a collection of Hans Christian Andersen stories.

The Wind Rises with Jiro's biography and Paul Valéry's poems.

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Ronia the Robber's Daughter if you've seen the co-produced Ghibli TV show.

Formatting might be slightly different, but I believe this has the same content:

Spirited Away

Kiki's Delivery Service

Totoro

Nausicaa

I think part of that problem is that new animators working primarily in CG aren't being taught the motion fundamentals (weight, squash and bounce, etc) that 2D animators had to learn back in the day. This was a big reason for Richard Williams's book and other educational efforts on animation.

Sorry for the stupid link, on mobile.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061478784/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/183-2330347-6604050