The Nausicaäst – Details, episodes & analysis

Lupin III - Castle of Cagliostro analysis & discussion podcast.
Welcome to our 30th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli! Today we will talk about a franchise film that also marks Hayao Miyazaki's directorial debut. Your hosts on this episode are PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu, and Nyard.

Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzn-j9r7oTa0qirJ2t3vdg

 

Sources: 

Beck, Jerry. John Lasseter to Introduce “Castle Of Cagliostro” at Fathom Events Screenings September 14th & 19th – Animation Scoop. https://www.animationscoop.com/john-lasseter-to-introduce-castle-of-cagliostro-at-fathom-events-screenings-september-14th-19th/.

Berton, Gael. The Works of Hayao Miyazaki: The Japanese Animation Master. Third Editions, 2020.

Brzeski, Patrick. “John Lasseter Pays Emotional Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki at Tokyo Film Festival.” The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2014, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/john-lasseter-pays-emotional-tribute-743635/.

Cavallaro, Dani. The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki. McFarland, 2015.

Greenberg, Raz. Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the Early Work of Japan’s Greatest Animator. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. library.oapen.org, https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501335976.

Jordan, Delaney. “If You’re Skipping ‘Castle of Cagliostro’ On Your Miyazaki Marathon, Don’t Talk To Me.” Medium, 13 Jan. 2021, https://delaneyjordan.medium.com/if-youre-skipping-castle-of-cagliostro-on-your-miyazaki-marathon-don-t-talk-to-me-7ba3ef513048.

Napier, Susan. Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art. Yale University Press, 2018.

Ornelas, Joseph. “Steven Spielberg Called This Early Miyazaki Film One of the Greatest Action Films of All-Time.” Collider, 18 Aug. 2023, https://collider.com/the-castle-of-cagliostro-miyazaki-steven-spielberg/.

“The Castle of Cagliostro.” Ghibli Wiki, https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/The_Castle_of_Cagliostro.

Nausicaäst #29 - Panda! Go, Panda!

"Panda! Go, Panda!" also known as Panda Kopanda analysis & discussion podcast.
Welcome to our 29th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli - Back to the history lessons! Today we will talk about an unlikely proto-totoro who looks a lot like a big huge panda dad. Your hosts on this episode are PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu, and Nyard.

Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast

MP3 Download: https://nausicaast.libsyn.com/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzn-j9r7oTa0qirJ2t3vdg

 

Sources: 

https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Panda!_Go,_Panda

https://web.archive.org/web/20040404093538/http://www.animerica-mag.com/features/pandagopanda.html

https://www.giantpandaglobal.com/category/zoo/ueno-zoo/

https://english.news.cn/asiapacific/20221029/ef3df86809e14dc0b9c37d5602cdccf6/c.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20040404093538/http://www.animerica-mag.com/features/pandagopanda.html

https://ghibli.jpn.org/news/pippi/

https://www.astridlindgren.com/gb/faq

Giri and Ninjo: The Roots of Hayao Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro" in Animated Adaptations of Classic Children's Literature Author(s): Raz Greenberg

Hayao Miyazaki - Starting Point

https://twitter.com/ghibli_world/status/856236259047612424

https://twitter.com/maamaa_hyaku/status/522299376727633922

https://twitter.com/junkuik_comic/status/519737688216182784

Making a Home out of Borrowed Junk - Nausicaäst #20 Arrietty the Borrower (Kari-gurashi no Arietti)

"Arrietty the Borrower" analysis & discussion podcast.

Welcome to our 20th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. A nice little film about nice little people. Releases under different titles everywhere: The Secret World of Arrietty - or so the British would say. With me (Nyard) today are PlatonSkull and Voice-Flower.

Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast
MP3 Download: https://nausicaast.libsyn.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts
Youtube: https://youtu.be/JTsHG8bGGu4

Sources:

Online:
Ghibli Fandom Wiki for providing some rare translations:
https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/The_Secret_World_of_Arrietty

Video:
- Interviews with Yonebayashi and Miyazaki on the German Bluray release of the movie

Paper:
Lightburn, Jane A. - "Adapting Arrietty: Hayao Miyazaki's Re-telling of Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers'"

Hyland, Robert - "A culture of borrowing: Iconography, ideology and idiom in Kari-gurashi no Arietti/The Secret World of Arrietty"

 

Joy, Gender and the Unconscious of Narrative - Nausicaäst #19 Ponyo

"Gake no Ue no Ponyo" analysis & discussion podcast.

Welcome to our 19th podcast on the works by Studio Ghibli. Today we are talking about the most colorful and joyful vision yet: Gake no Ue no Ponyo, directed by Hayao Miyazuaki. Join us as we dive into the ocean of the creative unconcious and find some interesting Gender takes from Miya-chan. Your hosts today are: Voice-Flower, Hipster_Cthulhu, PlatonSkull, Tassu and Nyard.

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Nyard
Check out Tassu's art: https://twitter.com/tassuiro

Our sources:
Books:
"Miyazakiworld" by Susan Napier
"Turning Point" by Hayao Miyazaki
"The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of 'The Little Mermaid'" by Lucy Fraser"Hayao Miyazaki's World Picture" by Dani Cavallaro

Web:
Story Dive - Ponyo Revealed: The Real Mythology & Folklore explained!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3daCR2J230

Ghibli Fandom Wiki - Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Ponyo_on_the_Cliff_by_the_Sea

Papers:
YOSHIDA Junko, "Are Miyazaki Hayao's Animations on the Waves of Media Globalization?". Kobe College Studies Vol. 60 No. 2

Ross, Deborah. "Miyazaki's Little Mermaid: A Goldfish Out of Water." Journal of Film and Video 66, no. 3 (2014): 18-30. Accessed May 10, 2021. doi:10.5406/jfilmvideo.66.3.0018.

Interviews:
https://www.awn.com/animationworld/character-designer-katsuya-kondo-talks-ponyo
https://www.tip-berlin.de/kino-stream/hayao-miyazaki-im-gesprach/
https://screenanarchy.com/2009/07/hayao-miyazaki-talks-ponyo.html
https://collider.com/hayao-miyazaki-interview-ponyo/
https://www.fanbolt.com/12319/interview-hayao-miyazaki-from-ponyo/

Additional material:
Bluray bonus features of the German Bluray release of Ponyo including a Making Of produced by News Zero and various translated interviews

Seeing Through Iblard Eyes

"Iblard Jikan" analysis & discussion podcast.

Welcome to our 18th podcast on the works by Studio Ghibli. Today we are talking about a special little film: Iblard Jikan is a 30 Minute long OVA with and about the art of Naohisa Inoue who directed this piece together with some Ghibli Animatiors in order to set his vision of the world of Iblard into motion. On the cast today are: Nyard, Tsukiya (Max) and Voice_Flower

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzn-j9r7oTa0qirJ2t3vdg

Our sources:
This one barely had any sources available in English. However the entry on Ghibli Wiki was tremendously helpful as it contains some information from otherwise untranslated Japanese texts and interviews.
https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Iblard_Jikan

 

Then there's also Inoue's website on which you can find some things in English:
http://www.iblard.com/english/

 

Legacy, Patricide and Dramatization

"Tales from Earthsea" analysis & discussion podcast. Also known as "Gedo Senki"   Welcome to our 17th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. Today we are talking about the first film directed by Hayao Miyazaki's very own son Goro. It is a story of the burden of legacy and the shortcomings of inexperience that manifests itself vividly in this honest film. On the cast today are: Nyard, PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu and Voice-Flower.   Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4https://discord.gg/n8puKa4   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaasthttps://www.patreon.com/nausicaast   MP3 Download: https://nausicaast.libsyn.com/howls-moving-castlehttps://nausicaast.libsyn.com/   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Tshttps://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzn-j9r7oTa0qirJ2t3vdghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzn-j9r7oTa0qirJ2t3vdg   Our sources: The brilliant Rob Malsen article we reference often: https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/stepping-out-of-the-shadow-goro-miyazakis-tales-from-earthsea/https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/stepping-out-of-the-shadow-goro-miyazakis-tales-from-earthsea/   Birght Lights article on "Anxiety of Influence": https://brightlightsfilm.com/daddy-issues-anxiety-goro-miyazakis-tales-earthsea-hayao/https://brightlightsfilm.com/daddy-issues-anxiety-goro-miyazakis-tales-earthsea-hayao/   LeGuin commenting on the film herself: https://web.archive.org/web/20060820151134/www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiResponse.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20060820151134/www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiResponse.html   A letter sent to LeGuin by a japanese correspondent: https://web.archive.org/web/20100613183629/https://www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiCorrespondents.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100613183629/https://www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiCorrespondents.html   A review of the film with an interview with Goro: https://web.archive.org/web/20070312001921/http://www.ghibliworld.com/gedosenkiatviff2006.html/https://web.archive.org/web/20070312001921/http://www.ghibliworld.com/gedosenkiatviff2006.html/   A translation of Goro's blog: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/prologue.htmlhttp://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/prologue.html   Beyond Ghibli - Tales from Earthsea - The Power of a Name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcxccVUN94https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcxccVUN94   STEVEM - Son of Miyazaki (A Goro Miyazaki Retrospective): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srx3aBcodokhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srx3aBcodok   Zizek article about a Rammstein song that Nyard refers to: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515419-zizek-rammstein-covid-lockdown/

Heavy Hearts and Found Family

"Howl's Moving Castle" analysis & discussion podcast.
Also known as "Hauru no Ugoku Shiro"
Welcome to our 16th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. Today we're talking about one that is often less well regarded by critics but we're giving the movie an earnest shot! Of all the Miyazaki films this might be the most divisive, but it is also a fond memory of many childhoods. On the cast today are: Nyard, PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu, Tassu and Voice-Flower.

Discord: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast
MP3 Download: https://nausicaast.libsyn.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/34MmVkEL5041HH4iaXZ2Ts
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzn-j9r7oTa0qirJ2t3vdg
And here's a link to the Mr Btongue Video Hipster recommends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHrTTgmB_3w

Our sources:
Web:
Ford - "A Body is a Heavy Thing"
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/03/13/a-body-is-a-heavy-thing/

Interview with Dianne Wynne Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbhWrjIImg

Newsweek Interview with Miyazaki
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/newsweek.html

Elyse Martin - "Howl-ever It Moves You: Diana Wynne Jones and Hayao Miyazaki Do the Same Work With Different Stories"
https://www.tor.com/2020/05/05/howl-ever-it-moves-you-jones-and-miyazaki-do-the-same-work-with-different-stories/

Akimoto - "Howl’s Moving Castle in the War on Terror"
https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol14/iss2/akimoto.html

Dobay - "Howl’s Moving Castle Explained: Character Analysis and Main Themes"
https://www.followthemoonrabbit.com/howls-moving-castle-people-dont-want-to-be-adults/

Paper:
Gossin - "Animated Nature: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Empathy in Miyazaki Hayao's Ecophilosophy"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/mech.10.2015.0209

Levi - "Review: Howl's Moving Castle"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41510916

Miyazaki - "Turning Point"
Print - Viz Media

Napier - "Miyazakiworld"
Print - Yale University Press

Rudd - "Building Castles in the Air [...]"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24352209

 

Escape, Agency and Cat Parades

Welcome to our 15th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. Today we're talking about an odd one. The first Ghibli spin-off movie as well as the second movie not directed by Miyazaki or Takahata. It is of course: The Cat Returns. On the cast today are: Nyard, PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu

Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t6YMWxIEfko

Discord: https://discord.gg/JGMdtZ

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast

Our sources:
Web:
Slap Happy Larry - Cat Returns Storytelling Notes https://www.slaphappylarry.com/cat-returns-storytelling-notes/

STEVEM - Returning To The Cat Returns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtzmhrxWLvc

Weird Stray Cat Outside (The Cat King??) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY9Hbv6ywQE

Paper:
Andrea Germer and Shiro Yoshioka - "Romantic Love and the ‘Housewife Trap’: A Gendered Reading of The Cat Returns"

Consumption, Compassion and Liminal Spaces

Welcome to our 14th and probably (hopefully) biggest podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. This time around we've spent over 5 hours in the recording booth (with a few breaks in between) to bring you analysis and interpretations of Spirited Away. With me on this quest: PlatonSkull, Xiff, TheThunderer, Hipster_Cthulhu and Roggol.

Discord: https://discord.gg/JGMdtZ

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/OnWwOf7e6K4

Our sources:

Web:

Miyazaki interview with Roger Ebert https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/hayao-miyazaki-interview

Roger Ebert - Spirited Away movie review & summary https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-spirited-away-2002

Books:

Susan Napier - "Miyazakiworld"

Hayao Miyazaki - "Turning Point"

Andrew Osmond - "Spirited Away (BFI Film Classics)"

 

Papers:

Susan Napier - "Matter out of Place: Carnival Containment and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away'"

Susan Napier - "The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation"

Noriko T. Reider - "'Spirited Away': Film of the Fantastic and Evolving Japanese Folk Symbols"

Julian Knox - "Hoffmann, Goethe and Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away'"

Weeraya Donsomsakulkij - "Negotiation between Capitalism and Reminiscent Environmental Ethics"

Youtube:

Big Joel - "Hayao Miyazaki and the Art of Ambivalence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CtO8QOhVzI

Fandom Musings - "One of the best scenes in all of film: Spirited Away's Train Scene" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LazFbJxk0Y

Welcome to our 13th podcast on the films by Studio Ghibli. This time we have some disagreements over the 1999 Takahata movie My Neighbors the Yamadas. The hosts of this cast are: Nyard, PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu and TheThunderer.

Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/n8puKa4

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nausicaast

Sources:

Not much.. French analysis article on the movie: https://www.kanpai.fr/culture-japonaise/mes-voisins-yamada-analyse

French interview with Takahata:
Isao Takahata: Un point de vue extérieur sur le monde* Codelli, Lorenzo Positif; Apr 2001; 482; Performing Arts Periodicals Database pg. 33

Another interview: https://search-proquest-com.proxy01.its.virginia.edu/docview/233258434/fulltext/1094B899D7C7403APQ/1?accountid=14678

Article about some of the things on the bluray commentary: http://www.cineoutsider.com/reviews/bluray/m/my_neighbours_the_yamadas.html