Introduction
This pilot is remembered, really, for one notable reason: this is Miyazaki's first time as a solo director. He teamed up with Takahata for the later episodes of the 1971-72 Lupin III series, but Yuki's Sun marked his first time solely in the captain's seat.
Yuki's Sun was based upon a popular shoujo manga (girls' comic) by Tetsuya Chiba which was serialized in 1963. It involves a 10-year-old orphan girl who is adopted into a family. The storyline is somewhat complex, and seems to play out like grand melodrama. Chiba's stories were more sophisticated and grown-up than, say, Osamu Tezuka, who of course was the godfather of postwar Japanese manga.
(Source: TheGhibliBlog)
Audience reviews
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Hmm... I think this five-minute short anime film was made to promote a manga. The story concept has some clichés, but if it was a feature-length film or a short series of at least 10-12 episodes, yes, it would have been better because I was a little confused by the disconnected scenes and instant transitions in these five minutes, to be honest...
But I can say that the drawing and the character are cute.
So, in short, if you want to watch it, watch it, after all, it's a short five-minute anime, but you won't miss much if you don't watch it.
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So...this exists. And apparently it's come into the limelight now because somehow, for some reason, the streaming website Mubi somehow got their hands on it, gave it English subtitles, and put it up for streaming. That's how I learned about it, along with following the Twitter account WTK, which is a good source of home video news, licensing news, streaming news, and so on. But most old school animation afficionados know something pretty interesting about the Yuki's Sun pilot: This is actually the solo directorial debut of one Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki worked with Takahata on plenty of TV shows and directing some episodes of stuff during the 70s and 80s before moving onto movies, but this was the first time where he was the only one in the director's seat. But you're probably wondering just…
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Miyasaki's first solo director gig. This is a short that seems to serve as a pilot for the manga, but is more like a quick trailer of a larger story.
Perhaps they were hoping to make a full series out of this, which would've looked like many other anime of the time: era animes showcasing the rural life in either Japan, Europe or the United States such as Rascal the Raccoon, Candy Candy, Haha o Tazunete Sanzenri, and many others that were popular at the time.
We're immediately presented the main character and within a minute we're shown her personality, what makes her lovable and what gets her in trouble. We're presented conflict by the third minute and somewhat lacking resolution by the fourth.
This could've been a larger anime filled with friendship, coming-to-age and rural themes, bu…
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Surely a product of its time with a pretty cliche story but i think you can really see small hints that of Hayao Miyazaki's famous directing even from back then.I don't know if he had any part in the animation department but it seems way more vibrant and fluid than any of the contemporaries of its era
Obviously it is a 4 minute short and its packed full of content with an easy to follow story,of course it leaves out almost all the details and what we get are only basic calicatures of characters but even that for such a small runtime is an achievement
Would reccomend just to see where it all started between Miyazaki and Ghibli and what that would eventually bring
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Plot
One can sail in this kind breeze of an anime. It would be hard to become lost with the slow directions and information given by the female narrator.Her words were not only helpful but spoken in a clear manner.
Granted for some the story does seem to progress in a fast paced fashion but this is not an entire anime but a plot or teaser of a trailer if you will. So, it is a given certain elements especially those with great meaning (like her parents) will leave a lot of questions to be raised.
Maybe it is the sheer joy of the childlike nature of the artwork or the main character's flooding happy natures makes me wish i could partake more in her life by seeing the full movie(if it does exist). Making the trailer a success.
Although, it doesn't seem to be muc…
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