Any comment?

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sorry, I failed to DL it. I cant see it yet.
anybody who was able to read, please give advice to me. (cookies? ActiveX? )

nausicaa.net has yesterday put them on there site http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/relmedia.html

And if you hav again a megaupload.com link. In the top left corner is a countdown. when it is over a (javascript) commercial popup is displayed. close them(the [x] in the top bar of the popup) and then you can see the (final ;-) ) download link

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thank you i got it.

I know this is a little late in the thread, but THANK YOU for posting the lyrics. I've been looking for them forever!

In return, I took a stab at making them match the meter of the song, and I even made them rhyme a little. Feel free to make any changes you feel would improve this translation. Thanks!

Oh, and by the way, this is based from the version used in the trailer. If anyone has the full version I would be happy to work off the melody and match the other verses as best I can...

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Over the clouds at the falling of the night...
The sun begins to die, one small hawk flies.
He must be very sad, lonely in the skies.

In the swift wind, silence whispers through his wings.
The air takes him far away, saying not a sound.
Though he wants to rest, he cannot touch the ground.

Oh, how can I tell you what thoughts are in my soul?
I want to fly, so desperately alone.
A hawk in the wind is the sadness of my heart,
A loneliess swirling so...Could he ever know?

I am in a field, on a path that no one treads,
And you are beside me, walking through the grass...
You must be alone though, for I will leave at last.

Insects are singing and their song has filled the air.
Together we walk the path, underneath the skies.
Silent as the hawk's wings, as he sadly flies.

Oh, how can I tell you what thoughts are in my mind?
I wish to tell you, how lonely I've become.
A hawk in the wind is the traveller on the road,
If only we three could speak of our hearts as one.

I want some suggestions.

Therru: Inochi wo taisetsu ni shinai yatsu nante daikkirai da!
Therru: 命を大切にしない奴なんて、大っ嫌いだ !

How do you translate this sentences into English?
my original transration is
"I hate you who don't value your life!"

To tell the truth, because it spoil speed of lines, I don't want to use "who".

However, whether it's life of Arren or others' lives cannot be distinguished from this lines.
I imagined it pointed life of Arren, because I thought of the tendency to the movie of Miyazaki Anime.

The translation on Nausicaa.net is -
"I hate a person who doesn't value life!"

In this case, 'who' could easily be replaced for 'that' without breaking its flow -although its not necessary.

What I like about this translation is that it can be both plural and specific in a sense. If she is saying this to Arren for example, then it implies that he is such a person -but also in the broader context she does not like others that behave similiarly.

Perhaps straying away from the original translation, I like this the most...
"I hate those who do not value life"

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Original Mononoke Story in English -
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Just saw the second trailer. To be honest, I haven't kept up with GS news at all for a long time, so I'll be kinda lost.

Anyway, just askin' if anyone else besides me noticed that the girl has some kind of birthmark on her face, on the left side around her eye. I missed it in the 1st trailer, but it was pretty clear in the 2nd. Was this anywhere in the book?

Also, there's news that the single is out by Tower Records. Anyone know where to get it?

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Just saw the second trailer. To be honest, I haven't kept up with GS news at all for a long time, so I'll be kinda lost.

Anyway, just askin' if anyone else besides me noticed that the girl has some kind of birthmark on her face, on the left side around her eye. I missed it in the 1st trailer, but it was pretty clear in the 2nd. Was this anywhere in the book?

Also, there's news that the single is out by Tower Records. Anyone know where to get it?

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Imouto He Scans -
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Original Mononoke Story in English -
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yeh i noticed that too on seeing the trailer - THEY ARE ALL WHITE!. now thats not a prob or anyting but its not very faithfull to the book and i do wonder of the reasons behind it.
though the northeners in the book are white - whether their in the 3rd book though (that the film is -loosley- based on) i cant remember, but, yes certainly the charactors in the movie clip shouldnt be so white, according to the book anyway.
i checked out that scathing crit by the author of the book posted by E_Hakki and she seemed to be pretty pisssed at how they had whitified the t.v. series but unless i missed it she wasnt talking about the new ghibli. though i think i can guess her rection to it.

but i wonder ghiblis reasons for the change???????????

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I wonder about the birthmark too...maybe if it was the way Le Guin described it in her book, it'd be just too distracting. Every time we saw it we'd go 'ugh.' Worse than that, we might misunderstand it. In a lot of fantasy, the evil characters are ugly or marked in some way. In Japanese culture, is it the same? I'm trying to understand the meaning of 'tsumi' - can anyone help me out here?

Maybe Miyazaki didn't want everyone assuming there was something about the girl that made her deserving of such a terrible mark. In a book it's easy to write how some characters understand how she got that way, and have sympathy for her. But in a movie, we just see the picture and have an impression of wrongness. Just my thoughts though, anyone have more?

I couldn't believe it when I found out! My favorite book with studio ghibli?!
After that horrible sci-fi channel movie (which I stopped watching after five minutes) I didn't think that Earthsea would ever come properly alive on the big screen, (fine with me, but a shame that the poor attempt was even made) The are supposed to be copper skinned, except tenar, but she's supposed to have black hair and they made it blonde.
I certainly hope that studio ghibli doesn't mess this up. I'm putting faith in them.
As for the scar, yes half of her face is supposed to be completely burned away along with her arm. I don't know why ghibli's changing it, miyazaki-sama's never been one to worry about good or evil looks in his characters *sigh* if it were miyazaki-sama directing this I wouldn't be worried at all.
Anyone with a question about earthsea, I'm the one to come to!

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one day I tried to explain Spirited Away to Tess (who doesn't watch anime)...

Tess: but see that's just weird! I mean what would you think if your boyfriend suddenly turned into a dragon?

Me: (short pause) THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!!

Yeah, I did get to download the trailer and now I'm thinking Sparrowhawk does look european, with that beard and all. I wish I knew what Goro Miyazaki was thinking there. It's a worry. Like Arren, I have to say these are my favourite books and I hate to think of them being destroyed as badly as what the SciFi channel did. Not sure about the fighting-with-the-wolves scene in the trailer either. I really dread this being turned into some sword and sandals epic with lots of fight scenes. Hope he at least gets Le Guin's Taoist feel for things, the balance of power, dark and light, all of that.

hello everyone^^ I'm a new member

I've got a question

I'd love to know what the white text on this poster mean?
'miememonokozo' and another 2 sentenses.


from http://rose-rote.hp.infoseek.co.jp/miya/...i/chirashi2.htm ^__^
I've found it at this topic
Thank you

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'miememonokozo' and another 2 sentenses.

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oh thank you very much

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I don't know, I'm admiring of anyone who can do translations but that poem remains very mysterious even after being translated into English. What do you think they are trying to say?

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I don't know, I'm admiring of anyone who can do translations but that poem remains very mysterious even after being translated into English. What do you think they are trying to say?

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Its mysterious also in Japanese.

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skin color is HADA-IRO

We Japanese believe that the skin color of Ghibli charactors is not white nor black. But they have Japanese skin color HADA-IRO.
For example Kiki's delivery is located in North Europe, but main charactors look like Japanese, we think.
Of course on Japanese release, they speak in Japanese and Kiki writes a letter to her parents in Japanese.Basically, Ghibli animes are made for Japanese market. They get most of incomes from Japanese market.
Charactors in Gedo Senki who look like Japanese is not so strange. If it is a live action movie and Japanes actors play in it, we may feel sense of incongruity,but it is animation, we do not think so unnaturally.
Most of Japanese audience can easily sympathize with the characters who look like Japanese.
sorry poor English --from Japan

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05.26.2006, 12:59 PM


It does seem that almost all anime characters have this skin color, and as for ged's beard if you look at the other movies, such as nausicaa, that seems to be miyazaki's way of portraying men of that age. (I know it's his son but maybe he's the same way.) I AM still pissed that it looks like tenar's hair was turned gold though. >_<
Yes, I will struggle to believe that ghibli will continue to be as wonderful as ever, and that it will not destroy my book. I was able to watch Howl as a completely different story and still like, hopefully (if worst comes to worst) I can do that here too.

*and after what sci-fi did not much could be worse ne?*

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one day I tried to explain Spirited Away to Tess (who doesn't watch anime)...

Tess: but see that's just weird! I mean what would you think if your boyfriend suddenly turned into a dragon?

Me: (short pause) THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!!

When I first saw the trailer I didnt realised the girl was therru. Only when I find out that the song name was the way it was, I realised that this pretty girl is supposed to be almost mute little girl with traumatic experiences and terrible scarfs. I was simply stoned. I mean, the terrible scarfs on therru face are pretty fundamental to the story....

Strange some say that "we associate ugliness with good" <- well, maybe in childhood, but otherwise I always thought that only very primitive cultures have this associations and I didn't consider English to be one of such cultures.

And many thanks for the lyrics!