SPIRITED AWAY -- or This Week In Acid Casualty Anime Fairy Tales That Will Haunt Your Dreams For A Long Time But Make You Want To Watch Them Over And Over Again

But you enjoyed it, right?

hell yeah, even tho it was the dubbed version. great fun - haters puzzle and sadden me. the 'domestication' of No-Face at Zeniba's amused me (amongst 99 other things) and i liked that Chihiro seemed to always have some new challenge to overcome every 5 minutes, and the general increase in scale of these challenges. now for My Neighbour Totoro i guess.

I prefer the dubbed version, even of Mononoke, where the celebrity voices are a bit distracting. You get more information. The subtitles are so... terse.

I tend to enjoy Miyazaki films a bit more if I don't parse for information so much, actually. Few of them make perfect linear sense.

Really NONE of them make perfect linear sense.

re dubbed i enjoyed hearing Susan Egan's voice as Lynn. and i thinki recognised Principal SKinner's Mom as the voice of the twin witches.

HEY if yr an adult and you expect good movies to make perfect linear sense then maybe you should watch more good movies amirite

I never watch Myazaki films with subtitles. I don't like to have half of the animation covered with superimposed words, and some of the young Japanese girls voices are really shrill to my ears.
In any case, both the Japenese and the Western versions are 'dubbed' - they're cartoons not real people!

otm.

wow i never realised

hahaha! you dumb man!

Hm!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hayao-miyazakis-spirited-away-to-get-stage-adaptation

(What's potentially all the more interesting -- though I'm finding it a little hard to believe -- is that it doesn't specifically say it's going to be a musical.)

this is the thread title huh

It is indeed.

That stage production has launched

A stage production of Spirited Away has opened in Tokyo and it might be the greatest thing you’ve ever seen. ✨

Photos via puppet designer and builder @TobyOlie. pic.twitter.com/e1sRxqt0T7

— Letterboxd (@letterboxd) March 5, 2022

Will be seeing this next Friday in London. Very excited!

Yes! I'm going later in the month and I am psyched!

(Is that the play of My Neighbour Totoro, though?)

The start of this thread is the least grumpy I've ever seen jess!