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Santa clause is coming to town Mirai Shonen Konan, Rupan Sansei, Arupusu no Shoujo Haiji These are just some of the countless animation classics Miya-san made during his pre-Ghibli period. Some of them are however less famous, with Tokyo Movie Shinsha s Akado Suzunosuke being one of them. This 52 episodes TV series, about a young red suit armoured samurai fighting evildoers who want to invade his homeland, was based on the 1950s radio drama by Tsunayoshi Takeuchi and somewhere around the production of Panda Kopanda and Panda Kopanda Amefuri Saakasu no Maki Miyazaki did key animation and storyboarding on episodes 26, 27 and 41 for it. And Akado Suzunosuke s co-chief director? None other than Takahata Isao. Furthermore, people like the famous Kotabe Yoichi, Kondo Yoshifumi and Dezaki Osamu also joined the crew. In 2002 the series was released on DVD in Japan without subtitles, though sadly that release is completely Out of Print. Reason enough for to feature a special look at Akado Suzunosuke episode 28th of September, FIRST DETAILED LOOK AT STUDIO GHIBLI VIDEO GAME: Earlier this week details on a new Studio Ghibli project were released. The famed studio is aiding Level5 on making a video game called Ni no Kuni: The Another World, which is being made to commemorate Level5 s 10th anniversary. Ni no Kuni: The Another World is scheduled for release somewhere next year and some first HQ screens have just been released. 21st of September, LUPIN III ON BLU-RAY, GHIBLI MUSEUM LIBRARY TITLES BECOME ENGLISH-FRIENDLY: Notable news from Japan. Miyazaki Hayao s full length feature debut from 1979, Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro , Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, will receive a Blu-ray treatment. Starting December 3 the BD will be available in Japanese shops at a price of 5, 040 Yen and will include 1080i visuals note: no 1080p! and audio in 3 different tastes; a PCM track, DTS-HD Master Audio 1 and Dolby True HD Specifications of any bonus features have not yet santa clause is coming to town announced. In addition, a BD-box set of Lupin III s first and second TV series will be released on December 12 2008 and February 200 Furthermore, Waiting for Kalki s Jordan Scott has just informed with other newsworthy information. Michel Ocelots Azur et Asmar, which was released theatrically, on DVD and Blu-ray Disc by Studio Ghibli in Japan, will get a DVD release in the USA on 11 November 2008 it is already available as such in the United Kingdom. His Kirikou et la Sorcire and Princes et Princesses are already available in the USA; in fact the only Ghibli Museum Library titles which have never had a domestic release there are Le Roi et lOiseau and Moya Lyubov neither of which have had an English-friendly DVD anywhere in the world though Moya Lyubov is available to buy with English subtitles from Apples iTunes Store as My Love in both the USA and UK search for Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts 2007 to find it. 18th of September, NEW GHIBLI PROJECT: The September edition of Ghibli s monthly report magazine Neppu brings an update on one of the studio s latest projects. Isao Takahata s new film? Miyazaki Goro s new film? Nishii Ghibli? Something else? Neppu s cover already hints about its content. Shining on its cover is a painting by Miyazaki Hayao which the maestro earlier made for Jidai no Kazeoto , a book from 1992 that includes a talk of Miyazaki, Hotta Yoshie and Shiba Ryotaro. Needless to say, the project Neppu tells about is the one with which Ghibli focuses on Hotta Yoshie, a Japanese writer who watched and considered about humans at wars and conflicts of all santa clause is coming to town the world during a large part of his life. Hotta sadly passed away in 1998 and, marking the 10th anniversary of his death, Studio Ghibli is currently cooperating with Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature in Yokohama on an exhibition about the writer subtitled Troublous Times Drawn by Ghibli. As always, this exhibition has its history as well. Miyazaki Hayao and Suzuki Toshio have been big fans of Hotta and had contact with him till his death. Furthermore, Studio Ghibli republished his books, released a related DVD-box and Miyazaki once wrote an essay on him.