A Cars folytatásáról ír a filmbuzi, és a képen japán felirat van:

Én persze nem bírok ilyenkor magammal, és érekel, mi az. A 禁エンスト nem mondott semmit ugyanis.

Nos, tipikus japán logika. Az エンスト két részből áll: エンジン・ストール azaz engine stall. Első két-két katakanából lesz az エンスト, az “angol” szó, amit egy anyanyelvű se ért meg. A 禁 meg a tiltás jele. Innentől kikövetkeztethető, hogy a reklámtábla levágott végű angol felirata a No Stall lenne.

Igen, szerintem most már így maradok.

Mit Rotkäppchen:

Webisztánra kikerült a Google Street View (グーグル・ストリート・ビュー) adatvédelemről (プライバシー) szóló japán oktatóvideója, és annyira tipikusan a helyi piacra készült, hogy muszáj továbbosztanom. Ha a japánokat akarod megszólítani, akkor ilyet kell csinálni:

When I was a little boy I think I saw these animated series a million times. I can’t really put a  year to it, but it wasn’t during the original Hungarian TV airing of the late eighties for sure, yet I am fairly certain my brother was still in kindergarten at the time. I must have been around 8-9.

We had it on a video cassette from the local library, and my brother and I just watched it over and over. (He was the really hardcore one though, as soon as he arrived home from kindergarten he sat down on the floor about 1 meter from the TV and goggled at the screen as if glued to it.)

This is the pirates’ song and the enchanting intro sequence of the Hungarian version.

I remember the story was quite hard to understand at times. This is not one of those dumbed down action animations you get to see on TV nowadays. Rather a full blown sci-fi with long lost civilisations, underground cities, forbidden museums, artificial suns. And with the music of Vladimir Cosma the series were pretty scary at times. Nevertheless, I think all the boys secretly loved Arkana and wanted a hand-mounted harpoon gun like the one Spartacus had.

Someone commented on Youtube that there is going to be – or already is – a DVD with the original dubbing. And that Minimax screened the series a few times not long ago. For me the very first episode had to suffice. It’s on youtube in three parts: 1, 2, 3.

Back then they knew how to make good stuff for children.

Oh I know it’s so yesterday to rant about how great Wall-E is. This is a little like Firefly that rested on my hard drive unnoticed and mostly forgotten for over a year only to be found and to turn my world upside down.

With Wall-E I was caught from the very beginning with the grandiose shots of mountains of trash and dirt so alike live-action. Later I half-expected the protagonist machine to don a leather jacket and track away into the sun Fallout-like, because La vie en Rose is very similar to A Kiss to Build a Dream On.

And of course any self-respecting geek stifles a joyful yelp when Wall-E’s fully charged sound turns out to be the Mac’s boot-up chime. Eve’s sleek design is also reminiscent of the white iMac, and I learned from the castlist that the evil Autopilot speaks via MacInTalk, OS X’s built-in text-to-speech software.

To test I typed “Captain? Captain? Let go!” to TextEdit and had it voiced. It really is the same (with some change of pitch and tone).

Actually laughed out loud at Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Pure joy.

Neil just made available a forty-second sneak peek into the upcoming Coraline stop-motion movie, which you can download from here in a much better QT quality.

However – and I really do hope it’s not a problem to do so – I put it on Youtube. I reckoned it’d be a wee bit more accessible this way:

Pure awesomeness. So creepy it makes the hair on your skin stand.

Lopás, persze, de ez annyirajó! “Hol vannak a birodalmi rohamosztagosok?”