Licensed by Royal - DVD 1 - My Take

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In an interview, Suzuki-san, the president of Ghibli, said that the population of Japanese animator has been decreasing for years, and no Japanese studio can produce anime without Korean and Chinese studios nowadays.

The tendency is more obvious in the new anime shows of this Spring. You can see many Korean and Chinese animators' names in their title back, and the visual quality of these shows is very good. For example, look at 'Kaleido Star' produced by Gonzo and the original story by Sato Jun'ichi. It's a shoujo show and kind a back stage show of the broadway musical. It's surprisingly entertaining and the visual is

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll keep an eye out for it.

Dave Baranyi

So if Row is gay, why would he look at that bee girl picture on the chopper and say that to make Claire blush? He also flirt alot with Cliare and Claire seem to be interested in him........(I mean they're intelligence agency so they should have alot info especially about their staff and it would be pretty easy for Claire to find out if he is gay right?)

Then again he does have a male fan though.........(just remembered that...hehe) Maybe he's bi?

The NA animation industry calls this 'runaway production,' when most animation production shifted to the Far East. I wonder how far the Japanese industry would come to that, as cheaper foreign labor becomes more competent and catches up.

Laters. =)

Stan