First 5 minutes of Mai Mai Miracle streamed + 3 TV promos

[chaos]

The Avex Network posted the first five minutes and another six minutes from director Sunao Katabuchi (Black Lagoon) and MADHOUSE's anime film adaptation of Nobuko Takagi's Mai Mai Miracle (Mai Mai Shinko to Sennen no Mahō) novel on the YouTube website on Wednesday. Three television commercials were also posted between last month and last week. Eight more videos of production drawings were posted on the MADHOUSE Official Channel that the Nico Nico Douga website launched on Friday.

London's Barbican will be screening the subtitled movie on 26/11/09 (AKA next Thursday).
"Adapted from Nobuko Takagi's autobiographical novel, Mai Mai Miracle is a magical time-travelling adventure. Set in a town in the southwest of Japan in 1955 where nine-year-old Shinko and her new school friend Kiiko share a love of history. When they discover Shinko has an ancient family link to a legendary Japanese province, their imaginations take over and they explore a world which existed a thousand years before. Is it possible for daydreams to become reality? "




















From <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-11-20/mai-mai-miracle-1st-5-minutes-from-madhouse-streamed">ANN</a> and <a href="http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=9770">Barbican</a>

 

[Mohawk52]

This certainly has that Ghibli feel to it. Oh look! It's directed by Sunao Katabuchi, the same director what directed Kiki's Delivery Service and later Black Lagoon. So when this gets licenced in the US, and you know it will, I wonder if they will splash the usual "From The Creators Of Spirited Away!" banner sticker on the DVD? Funny they never did that with Black Lagoon. :wink:

 

[chaos]

So when this gets licenced in the US, and you know it will, I wonder if they will splash the usual "From The Creators Of Spirited Away!" banner sticker on the DVD? Funny they never did that with Black Lagoon. :wink:

As a matter of fact, that would be awesome =D

In any case, I believe Ghibli licenses are handled by disney in the US, so it's no surprise they want to market it like that.

 

[Mohawk52]

So when this gets licenced in the US, and you know it will, I wonder if they will splash the usual "From The Creators Of Spirited Away!" banner sticker on the DVD? Funny they never did that with Black Lagoon. :wink:

As a matter of fact, that would be awesome =D

In any case, I believe Disney licenses are handled by disney in the US, so it's no surprise they want to market it like that.

What makes you think Disney would pick this up? Though it looks like it, it's not a Ghibli property. As for Black Lagoon, yeah that would be awesome just to see how many soccer moms get traumatised by the first episode, and to see the tabloid headlines after they recover. It would finally put the match to putting that sticker on anything done by some freelancer for Studio Ghibli at some point in their career before hand. :wink:

 

[chaos]

So when this gets licenced in the US, and you know it will, I wonder if they will splash the usual "From The Creators Of Spirited Away!" banner sticker on the DVD? Funny they never did that with Black Lagoon. :wink:

As a matter of fact, that would be awesome =D

In any case, I believe Disney licenses are handled by disney in the US, so it's no surprise they want to market it like that.

What makes you think Disney would pick this up? Though it looks like it, it's not a Ghibli property. As for Black Lagoon, yeah that would be awesome just to see how many soccer moms get traumatised by the first episode, and to see the tabloid headlines after they recover. It would finally put the match to putting that sticker on anything done by some freelancer for Studio Ghibli at some point in their career before hand. :wink:

Sorry, my comment was at ghibli licenses in general, not mai mai miracle.