Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name" has just set another box office record!
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Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name" has just set another box office record!
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The world of the Oscar-nominated "Dam Keeper" short is turning into a traditionally-animated series for Hulu in Japan.
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American distributor Funimation plans a one-week Oscar qualification run this December.
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An inspiring DIY project for anyone who creates digital art on a tablet.
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"Your Name" has captivated Japanese audiences in a way that no other film has since the release of Disney's "Frozen."
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Millions of people across the world work for voluntary organisations and invest their abundant energies into helping their communities. Historically, establishments of voluntary organisations date back to at least the nineteenth century, when some of the world’s largest voluntary organisations, such as the Red Cross, were established to help people in need for free. To date, volunteer work remains a popular activity among the public worldwide.
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A music video designed for mobile devices for VMO’s new album "Catastrophic Anonymous."
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"Ghost in the Shell" maker Production I.G. travels back in time for its new feature, "Miss Hokusai."
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In 2002 I faced a dilemma relating to an editorial project that perhaps only another historian can appreciate. Scrambling to complete the Introduction to Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches, I had to figure out how long to say the eponymous period had lasted.
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30 years of work, 2,500 items on display—this is a must-visit for any Ghibli fan.
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"Gender has nothing to do with making movies," Nishimura said, after claiming that women were not a good choice for directing fantasy films.
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Women are too realistic to be capable of directing fantasy films, says Ghibli producer.
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In Can I Build Another Me? by Shinsuke Yoshitake, a young boy comes up with a master plan to avoid doing his chores: he spends all his pocket money on a robot to take his place. “From now on, you’re going to be the new me! […] But don’t let anyone know. You must behave exactly like me.”
But in order to be exactly like the young boy, the robot needs to know everything about the person he will be imitating. All sorts of questions, exploring everything from the boy’s physical characteristics, to likes and dislikes, via feelings and much more follow. Gradually the robot builds up a fairly comprehensive picture of what the boy is like, but will the master plan to avoid chores succeed or will Mum see through the robot straight away?
This very funny, marvellously philosophical picture book offers so many opportunities for thinking about who we are, why we behave the way we do and how we can and do change over time. It’s reflective and reassuring, creating a space full of laughter to talk about feelings, hopes and friendships. Every page offers lots of opportunities for conversations, at the same time as being full of acute and humurous observations about what it can be like being a child, trying to learn how to navigate your way in the world.
Yoshitake’s illustrations, often reminiscent of comic strips, with multiple panels on each page, are full of fabulous detail offering as much to pore over as the text does. Stylishly designed with just a few colours and a great variety of pace (some pages have lots of sections, others are given over to a single spread), the relatively simplicity of the line drawings allows Yoshitake’s fantastical imagination to flourish.
An empowering, laughter-fuelled, imagination-sparking, reflection-inducing delight, Can I Build Another Me? is meaty and marvellous, silly and serious all at once. A triumph!
We don’t ever really need an excuse for making robots out of junk. Nevertheless, we gratefully took reading Can I Build Another Me? as an opportunity to get creative with old plastic boxes and the glue gun, to create a few mini-me-robots:
Whether they are really just like us or not, they definitely have a sense of personality!
As well as making mini-me-robots, we made keepsake booklets about ourselves, inspired by the questions raised by Yoshitake in his book.
We really enjoyed filling them in, and I suspect they will be great fun to look back on in a year or more, to see how our feelings about ourselves and who we are has changed.
I learned a few things about my own kids as we filled in these booklets. “I can put a whole carrot in my mouth,” wrote M…., whilst J likes DIY and ceilidhs.
If you want to have a go at making your own Can I Build Another Me? inspired booklet, click here to download the pdf file to print off (we printed the pages back to back, then folded them in half and stapled them together along the spine).
Whilst making our robots and filling in our notebooks we listened to:
Other activities which might work well alongside reading include:
If you liked this post you might like these other posts by me, featuring picture books with a philosophical theme:
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Disclosure: I was sent a free review copy of this book by the publisher. NB Although the book was translated from Japanese, no named translator is given in the bibliographic details.
It's the first European film that Japan's legendary Studio Ghibli has co-produced.
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Discussion Guide & Common Core Teacher Guide |
"I thought you might sleep through it." The creature smiled.
Saki's voice was little more than a whisper. "Sleep through what?"
It leaned over. She stared into its will-o'-the-wisp eyes.
"The Night Parade, of course."
Writing longhand in Osaka |
A new music video by Japanese animator Takashi Ohashi.
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Ghibli's first international co-production is directed by "Father and Daughter" director Michael Dudok de Wit.
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The Polygon Pictures series directed by Goro Miyazaki earns some international recognition.
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On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town.
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Filmmaker David OReilly reports on his experiences at the one-of-a-kind Georama animation festival in Tokyo.
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It is no secret that India-Japan relations have been on a strong positive trajectory over the past 18 months. Soon after taking office in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made Japan his first foreign destination outside of India’s immediate neighborhood and while in Tokyo, he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upgraded the India-Japan relationship
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One of Japan's biggest film hits of 2015 is headed to U.S. theaters.
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Discover the art of Mateusz Urbanowicz, Cartoon Brew's Artist of the Day!
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A music video for Vampillia's new album "The Divine Move."
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Taking place entirely inside an airport terminal, New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival is a particularly refreshing festival that is not to be missed.
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I can read you are still having a hard job on cats 😉 I’ve seen cats on your girl’s pages but not on yours…
I love the idea of this book. We have “C’est peut-être une pomme” translated into french (very recently, in february I think). I had a look at it but it did not seem as nice as this one. I am waiting forward to get the translation of “Can I build another me” !
Hi Sophie, yes, I’ve heard about his apple book, but not seen it so can’t compare. And YES again, the cat problem is ongoing!