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Anime

Miyazaki Strikes Back

After his “supposed” retirement Hayao Miyazaki is back in the game again. His new work will be a short film and it will be the first time a Miyazaki work is completely created with computer animation. The title of the short film will be Boro The Caterpillar (“Kemushi no Boro”) and it will be shown at the auditorium at The Ghibli Museum.

In the press conference Miyazaki explained the decision to use only computer animation for the short film:

“I can’t find good brushes any more, and the quality of drawing paper has declined,” he said. “It seems the world has been changing fundamentally.”

He also did some comments about primer minister Abe’s politics in respect to Second World War:

“We must express deep remorse over the tremendous damage we caused to the people of China. We must clearly state that we regret that,” Miyazaki said. “I know there are many people who wish to forget that part of history, but we must never forget the senseless acts that Japan conducted in China over a long period of time.”

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Various

Sunflower Day – ひまわりの日

Today is Sunflower Day in Japan (Himawari no hi, ひまわりの日). This day has been celebrated since JAXA launched their first meteorological satellite on July 14th 1977. The name of that satellite was “Sunflower number 1”. Since then, during the last 40 years, Japan has launched eight “Sunflower” meteorological satellites to space. The one that is used today to predict the impact of typhoons (like the one that is approaching us this week) is Sunflower number 8.

People usually forget about the origin of the celebration, the important of this day is to have a nice day by being creative using sunflowers. These are some of the images of the day on Twitter:

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan

Sunflower Day in japan
Sunflower number 8 launch at the end of last year

Categories
Videogames

Satoru Iwata Passes Away, RIP

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s president since 2002 left us last Saturday being just 55 years old 🙁

Thanks for all the memories!

iwata satoru

iwata satoru

iwata satoru