teggacat wrote:[I'm such a sucker for any cel with a dog-or any animal-in it!!]
If truth be told, I was so taken by the cat (Tylette) in the first BB cel I saw that I absolutely had to get to know that series better. Though in truth I've rarely seen a more authentically doggy dog than Tylō.[/quote]
the little girl in red is sweet too
Every collection needs to start with a single cel and a specific auction. I would never have thought, when I lodged that bid on July 15, 2000, where it all would end.
tex-chan wrote:I thoroughly enjoyed your new additions, too.
Thanks, tex. It is nice beyond words to be able to know that someone (namely you) will be certain to lurk through all the new corridors and poke all the new buttons to see what will happen.
The Bluebird cels are stunning. They are simple ... but also complex
That's an interesting comment. It really is an interesting series, as the couple episodes I've screened in streaming video (the Italian dub) show. While there is a classic storybook feel to the character design, there also is ... something else. One could readily believe that the AD was just itching to create
Fist of the North Star as soon as he could convince Mytyl to let that poor unconsolable Bird of Happiness fly away free.
Your new henshin -- the up-close shot of Karin with the pig snout -- is surprisingly beautiful.
Also a surprising touch. Karin hates the fact that she has to transform into Pig Girl ... and then her crush falls deeply in love with Pig Girl rather than with her "normal" self. Yes, what I've seen of
Tonde Buurin is zany: while Nippon Studio is unrelenting about taking down English dubbed or subbed versions on YouTube, if you're quick you can catch the Spanish dub that evidently is taking Latin America by storm. But the cels show that there's a big dab of psychological realism too, just as in Tennimon (same team of creators).
I think my favorites of the whole update were your Gegege no Kitaro additions. You know how much I love seeing artwork from this show.
Actually, I
didn't know (silly me). Kitaro is iconically famous in Japan but very much an acquired taste everywhere else. Shigure Mizuki, the mangaka who created the character and whose popular folklore surveys inspire many of the episodes, is fully as famous there as Osamu Tezuka and Hayao Miyazaki. There are Mizuki museums and sculpture gardens of Kitaro and his companions. But since his works are based on legends that are found only in Japan, his appeal doesn't translate well, and so his work is almost unknown over here. I found out about him by reading a great academic folklore work,
Pandemonium and Parade, by Michael Foster, which surveys Japanese interest in yokai ("monsters," but much, much more than that) from handwritten scrolls to manga/anime. I'm delighted that Mizuki has made yet another Western convert.
Macron one wrote:I particularly like that great Tonde Buurin eyecatch!
There can't be many of these out there, and when Vapalla was so over-the-top happy to get her eyecatch (that was when we were bidding on stuff as a consortium), I made a note to watch for one to reserve for myself. It took nearly 5 years, though. But it's nice to nab.
It's also nice to see you acquiring production art from various older anime titles. Your detailed presentation of these pieces is quite fascinating as always.
Thank you! As really primo stuff from the 90s dries up, it's nice to know that there is much more to know and collect than just that. And the "Masterpiece Theatre" phase of anime (the grammar school in which Miyazaki and his contemporaries learned their craft) really deserves to be known more thoroughly. I'd hope that, as the world gets smaller and technology gets more sophisticated, that we can get fuller access to these virtually unknown series before much longer.
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