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What are you watching right now? Why? (please read 1st post)

I'm also watching gdgd men's party. It's actually a lot of fun, since I think they're ad-libbing most of it.

I've been watching Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow as part of my project. it's about a pioneer family that settles in Adelaide in the 1830s, when the city was no more than surveyed streets and peg marks on the ground. I wouldn't recommend anyone watch it, especially given that, apart from the fansubbed first three episodes, the 50 episodes can only be watched with a French dub. I'm finding the French filtered, Japanese take on early nineteenth century Australia mildly entertaining, but I doubt people from elsewhere would share my interest in that way.

A notable feature is that Hayao Miyazaki wrote the script. ANN doesn't give him any other credit, nor does he share it with anyone else. As I've been watching the series - part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theatre - I've been wondering if I'd notice any signature Miyazaki moments. Well, it's taken 27 episodes but he finally drops a wonderful scene that is pure Miyazaki. So much so I wonder if he storyboarded it as well. It won't be from the original novel - by Melbourne author Phyllis Piddington and seemingly unobtainable even in Australia - because it has an essential plot error that no Australian would make.

It's a flying sequence, wouldn't you know, and a magical one at that. Part of its emotional impact comes from the events of the previous three episodes, but it's a treat on its own. Lucy-May has played a prank on her older brother Ben who is reading by the River Torrens, causing him to drop and lose the book, which is precious to him, in the river. In his frustration and rage he strikes Lucy-May across the face, which shocks both of them, (and, I might add, the viewer) as they are quite close as siblings. Both suffer considerable anxiety and guilt over the episode, leading to Lucy-May coming down with a serious fever. While she is bedridden he cuts some bamboo from the native forest (that's the error I mentioned - there is no bamboo on the Adelaide plains - the nearest possible bamboo is more than 2,000 km away) to make her a kite, which he leaves by her bedside. When her fever finally abates she notices the kite for the first time, then drifts into a dream of flying on the kite. It's one of those scenes you get in anime that transcends the material around it.

Here are some screenshots.
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**Yay! First on page 1000**

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Thanks for putting me straight. I misread the ANN encyclopaedia. Well, that changes everything I wrote.

It seems that 2channellers of 2ch/5ch's Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow thread are talking about you.

I'm watching the pirated version of that fansub and
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