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Chargement... Shuna's Journeypar Hayao Miyazaki
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. It's so great to get to reread this! The watercolor art is so beautiful and the story is so lovely! The translation is amazing and it's just a good read. Miyazaki wrote this while writing the Nausicaa manga and drafting his concept for the Earthsea film, so there are similarities in Nausicaa, and Goro outright used art and scenes for "Gedo Senki". There are also a lot of art, scenes, and characters that showed up later in the "Princess Mononoke" film, which was neat to see, so it's sort of the closest thing we'll probably ever get to a "Princess Mononoke" manga. Overall I really loved this, and glad to finally own it. With his village just eking by at a slowly dwindling subsistence level, a young prince sets off atop his faithful yak in search of a magic grain that will bring bumper crops. Wait, is this a Norman Borlaug biography? Or a messed up version of Jack and the Beanstalk? Actually inspired by a story from Tibetan folklore called "The Prince Who Turned into a Dog," Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki reimagines it into a fantasy quest with cannibals, slave traders, and giants. You'd think that would be exciting, but the story is told almost entirely in captions in a monotone narration that left me feeling removed from the story and its wooden characters. Plus, the dog transformation is metaphorical instead of literal in Miyazaki's version, so no cute puppies for me, just a dumb old yak. FOR REFERENCE: The Japanese translation of "The Prince Who Turned into a Dog" by Kimishima Hisako originally appeared in 1964 in the folklore anthology, 白いりゅう 黒いりゅう: 中国のたのしいお話 (Dragon black dragon white - pleasant talk of China, ISBN 9784001103076). In 2013 it was turned into a picture book with illustrations by Jin Goto: 犬になった王子――チベットの民話 (The Prince Who Turned into a Dog - A Tibetan Folk Tale, ISBN 9784001112429). aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Shuna, the prince of a poor land, watches in despair as his people work themselves to death harvesting the little grain that grows there. And so, when a traveler presents him with a sample of seeds from a mysterious western land, he sets out to find the source of the golden grain, dreaming of a better life for his subjects. It is not long before he meets a proud girl named Thea. After freeing her from captivity, he is pursued by her enemies, and while Thea escapes north, Shuna continues toward the west, finally reaching the Land of the God-Folk. Will Shuna ever see Thea again? And will he make it back home from his quest for the golden grain?"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The storyline might be one of Miyazaki's most somber and adult stories he has ever penned. Shuna's Journey tackles themes of human trafficking making this work more teen and adult oriented than a work for children. This is not to say that older children can't understand this, it just skews more towards an older audience. I would say this is suitable for middle grade readers and up.
To have this in print, is a rare gem, and a fascinating glimpse into Miyazaki's early career. You can see in this story Miyazaki's key narrative occupations coming to life and it's a beautiful and epic thing to witness. ( )