Quiz  Wright down the recurring themes appear in Miyazaki Hayao’s films.

Final Oral Presentation Guideline  Discuss your analysis (such as common themes, messages behind it, impact to the society or yourself) of Anime/Manga (s) of your choice  The order of presenters will be decided by a lottery  Use PowerPoint for your presentation  The work should be split equally since you will be graded as a team  15 to 20 minutes (max) long (make sure you rehearse and timed you presentation beforehand)  Should not contain more than 2 minutes of video clip(s)  The presentation should have a title and should be well organized  All presentations will be evaluated by me and your classmate (see the evaluation sheet)  Submit your presentation via attachment

Final Paper Guideline  The paper should be approximately 3000 words (roughly 8 -9 pages, Font 12 pt, double spaced)  Maximum 12 pages  All pictures should be located at the end of the paper (maximum 1 page)  Must include reference  Your sole analysis/discussion cannot be based on the web (such as Goggle and Wikipedia)  You should use your presentation as the foundation

Miyazaki Hayao Part 1: となりのトトロ “My Neighbor Totoro Week 9

Miyazaki Hayao (1941-)  Born in Tokyo  Miyazaki Family owns “Miyazaki-kuukoo-koogaku”, an airplane parts company (he learned the company made A6M Zero fighter planes)  Relatively wealthy family (even during the Pacific war)  He was fascinated with aviation; studied and drew pictures of airplanes Keyword: Airplane, Zero-sen, KamikazeKamikaze

Miyazaki Hayao: Early Years  Miyazaki was often sick as a child so he read and drew manga  Captured by Tezuka’s Manga, Miyazaki decided to become Manga-ka when he was high- school.  Also, he saw “Hakujyaden” (Toei’s Animated movie” and interested in Animation (he “fell in love” with the heroin of the movie) Keyword: Tezuka, strong female leading character

Miyazaki Hayao: (1)  1963 Miyazaki got a job at Toei Animation  1968 Worked with the director, Takahata Isao, for the first time  1971 Left Toei and changed productions (Mushi Production, A- Production and Nippon Animation)  1974 “Arupus-no Haiji” (Heidi, Girl of the Alps) become the highest watched Anime on the record (26.9%) and received recognition

Miyazaki Hayao: (2)  1979 Miyazaki made “Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro” (Lupin the Third: Castle of Cagliostro)  1979 meets Suzuki Toshio, the editor of Animeju magazine (the oldest Anime magazin)  1982 Miyazaki begin writing Kazenotani-no Nausicca on Animeju

An Interview with Miyazaki Hayao

Studio Ghibli’s Double Featured Film (1988) 1945 Mid 1960’s

Tonari-no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro)  Satsuki Kusakabe (12 yrs- old—originally 10)  Mei Kusakabe (4)  Tatsuo Kusakabe (32)  Yasuko Kusakabe  Obaachan  Kanta  Totoro –A mononoke  Neko-no-basu  Makkurokurosuke

Totoro was a big flop  Totoro only made $  The studio Ghibli lost so much money that they had make a new film right away (Kiki’s delivery Service)—the last Ghibli distributed by Tohei movie co.  1989 Totoro was broadcasted on the TV and gets a record breaking 21% Majyo-no-takkyubin (1989)

Studio Ghibli’s Double Feathers (1988): Grave of the Fireflies & My Neighbor Totoro Showa ( ) 1953-ish /6 Hiroshima 8/9 Nagasaki 8/15 Surrender Pacific War ( )

A question. What’s common between Matrix and Totoro?

Good Old Showa Era 1

Good Old Showa Era 2

Good Old Showa Era 3