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Actually saw this two days ago on Dark Horizons, and wanted to write a worthy entry for it (no not another “Incredibles” novel, hehe) but just wanted to give a quick shout about it for now. Yeah so, Dark Horizons uploaded the new trailer on their site. This new Miyazaki film will come out in Japan on November 20th, so for all those friends of mine in Tokyo, let me know how it goes.

I read the book it was based on last summer and I really enjoyed it. A review of the movie was posted on Ain’t It Cool News, and he said it follows the book pretty well, though the ending was a little hard since it had to wrap-up a lot of plot in a short time. The book was like that too but it didn’t ruin the story at all - right from the beginning of the story, a lot is covered and it just keeps building up. The best part of the book are the diverse characters. Sort of in the reign of Harry Potter universe (though this book predates that), it’s sort of an elseworld mixture of modern day settings with magic and witchcraft. From reading the book I can see how Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki admire it. Like other Miyazaki’s work, it has a very strong female lead. Plus there’s a great sense of quirkiness and creativity in the universe that is created. I recommend reading the book - either before or after watching the film, whatever you like. It’s a good read no matter what.

Erf! Now I’m starting to write too much, maybe I’ll continue this later, haha. Cheers.