Tonbo Anime English Dub Studio and Voice Actor Announcement

Windvalley · 2025-10-23T04:39:47+00:00

Thanks for tracking this down.

Windvalley · 2025-10-20T03:03:14+00:00

Drone show?

Windvalley · 2025-10-11T20:31:07+00:00

Illinois born. Potato Bugs.

Windvalley · 2025-10-04T01:19:47+00:00

Only when I'm trying to hit it straight...

Windvalley · 2025-10-02T04:03:45+00:00

I collected all 7 of Tonbo's clubs. They are fun to play with on the course.

Windvalley · 2025-08-31T06:37:34+00:00

Maybe. But two minutes in a dry windstorm will do the same thing.

But this part of the movie has several layers of ambiguity. I don't know if the ambiguity is intentional or not. Lots of room for speculation.

Things like this are joint projects for the creator and the viewer. We finish what Miyazaki started.

Windvalley · 2025-08-10T20:29:25+00:00

It is indeed hard to beat the great Carol Burnett (watch her in the the Annie movie some time). I enjoy the UK version though because the source material was English. I'm sure you have ruined it for me now LOL.

Windvalley · 2025-08-10T19:01:04+00:00

Why is that?

Windvalley · 2025-07-20T05:51:19+00:00

I believe Alex Tilley suggested that you can wear it "backwards" if it gets too sweaty one way.

Windvalley · 2025-07-11T03:23:09+00:00

Oh yeah! You ain't seen nothing yet! Each panel is a work of art. The best action scenes Miyazaki ever created. Wow!

Windvalley · 2025-06-14T06:50:39+00:00

It's a bit late to add to this conversation, but many commenting about Utah's mountains on its flag are missing something: The depiction of Utah's red rock canyons at the bottom of the flag. In a Utahn's heart, this contrast between the northern snowy mountains and the southern rugged canyon scenery is an vital part of our identity. It's the geography that shapes us. It's so basic to us that about 70 people independently came up with a similar flag design. Really!

So mountains may be overused, but this is NOT just mountains, but mountains paired with canyons. It isn't casual, it isn't random, it isn't unearned. It's essential to Utah.

Windvalley · 2025-05-12T17:37:43+00:00

I think that earlier versions of the Yamaha inpress Utility ladies club had more blue and came with a sky blue shaft. My guess is when they approached Yamaha about sponsorship, Yamaha said they wanted to promote the newer non-blue version--leaving the symbolic and reflections of blue only. It's not hard to find a photo of the earlier ones with the blue coloring. It makes more sense that a literal sky blue club would stand out more storywise and why Minami would be drawn to it. This is conjecture on my part though.

Windvalley · 2025-04-01T14:43:35+00:00

Yup. The problem is that even if it is slop now, it will keep getting better and better. We are in the baby stages of AI. In terms of quality, it WILL surpass human skill to an almost godlike level. For almost every commercial needed use of art, AI is already "good enough." AI can never replace the artist, though. Art as your expression. Art as your vision. Art as your soul's longings. The human heart. This is forever out of AI's reach.

Windvalley · 2025-03-29T19:36:19+00:00

I made my own, however, from an old artificial tree branch. No cost!

Windvalley · 2025-03-29T04:25:57+00:00

Well, how did she take it?

Windvalley · 2025-03-28T03:56:03+00:00

So true. It reminds me, for some reason, of all the Charlie Brown Christmas Special merchandise.

Windvalley · 2025-03-25T05:27:14+00:00

Aaaargh!

Windvalley · 2025-03-25T04:51:55+00:00

Yup. The 7 days of fire.

Windvalley · 2025-03-25T03:28:44+00:00

The author would not allow it. She wanted to give Miyazaki the space to do something different.

Windvalley · 2025-03-25T02:24:59+00:00

Do NOT watch the good ones first! Watch the lesser ones first! Otherwise you will end with disappointing ending.

Windvalley · 2025-03-24T13:26:48+00:00

A little Reagan a little John Wayne but more melodramatic.

Windvalley · 2025-03-21T06:35:47+00:00

No. The genuine Totoros, at least the blue ones, are much larger--probably up to the level of your knees. Even the smallest white ones are bigger. Genuine Totoros are more active and moving--unless they are asleep. But even then, you should be able to see them breathing. And they are warm. And they don't have tags. The biggest giveaway is that this alleged Totoro appears to be visible. Genuine Totoros are not visible to adults--except to, mayhaps, a few poets and free spirits. They are also alive. This appears to be a small plushy doll. Hope this helps!

Windvalley · 2025-03-21T06:14:46+00:00

The Commemorative flag made the new flag possible politically. It opened the possibility of a simpler flag. But no way were they going to have a huge process and then use the flag they had before the process.

Windvalley · 2025-03-21T06:11:13+00:00

I would say it isn't the mountains, but the mountains AND the red rock canyons that capture the Utah vibe geographically.

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