News of a new Studio Ghibli project was announced last month. It's an adaptation of the shoujo manga 'Kokuriko-saka kara', first serialised in Nagayoshi Magazine in 1980.
It is an adolescent drama about an ordinary schoolgirl who becomes entangled in the noisy mess of a school newspaper department with boys and the student president.
Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki commented that they have finally been able to get the go ahead on this shoujo manga picture, and are now currently in the middle of strenuous planning.
It's scheduled to be released this summer, with the script co-written by Hayao Miyazaki, and the film directed by his son, Goro Miyazaki - his second film after Tales from Earthsea.
Source: <a href="http://natalie.mu/comic/news/42118">Natalie.mu</a> [Japanese]
More information in English: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-15/ghibli-adapts-kokuriko-saka-kara-manga" target="_blank">ANN</a>
It is an adolescent drama about an ordinary schoolgirl who becomes entangled in the noisy mess of a school newspaper department with boys and the student president.
Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki commented that they have finally been able to get the go ahead on this shoujo manga picture, and are now currently in the middle of strenuous planning.
It's scheduled to be released this summer, with the script co-written by Hayao Miyazaki, and the film directed by his son, Goro Miyazaki - his second film after Tales from Earthsea.
Source: <a href="http://natalie.mu/comic/news/42118">Natalie.mu</a> [Japanese]
More information in English: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-15/ghibli-adapts-kokuriko-saka-kara-manga" target="_blank">ANN</a>