Miyazaki's characters...strange observation...

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Postby Heart of Sword » Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:23 pm

Quite a few characters of Miyazaki's have a scratch beneath their left eye.

First it was Ashitaka. Then Pazu. And Haku had one for a little while in Spirited Away.

What's with the scratch??? :lol:
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Postby AngelSakura » Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:28 pm

Uh...Miyazaki-sensei's character's lead dangerous lives? I dunno. It's a common place to get a scratch, apparently.
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Postby plutogrl03 » Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:41 pm

Don't know about Ashitaka (mainly because I don't know what movie you're talking about), but that is an interesting observation. But I have also seen that happen in Sailor Moon.
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Postby Orange Kitten » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:12 pm

Never really paid attention to that, really. Could just be to show the struggle they've gone through in life. Ashitaka is a warrior, kinda expected to be cut up. Pazu was a boy working hard to make a living in a mine shaft. Haku was a brash boy and dragon. The scratch matches all of their lives/personalities.

I guess the the scratch just goes to show that these kids are tough and ain't no pretty boys
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Postby Heart of Sword » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:37 am

Yeah but it's always the SAME SIZE and in the SAME PLACE.

Maybe Miyazaki's got one too. :lol: :P
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Shoutin’ in the street gonna take on the world some day
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Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
Bright eyes burning like fire
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids

Who will love a little Sparrow
Who's traveled far and cries for rest
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all
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We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you!

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Postby Mangafanatic » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:57 am

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Postby Gypsy » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:32 am

Very observant, Heart of Sword. I have no idea why it is (I'm incline to agree with Osaka ;)) but I'm impressed it was noticed. ^^
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Postby Joshua Christopher » Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:14 am

Heart of Sword wrote:Yeah but it's always the SAME SIZE and in the SAME PLACE.

Maybe Miyazaki's got one too. :lol: :P


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Postby That Dude » Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:28 pm

It might be some little signature mark that he puts on all the main guy characters just for the heck of it...
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Postby Ren_sama » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:00 pm

Lol...I always noticed that a lot of Miyzaki
s main boy chracters look the same..XD hmm..is there a deeper meaning behind it!?
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Postby VioletEyedCat » Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:18 pm

Really? I never noticed that.... (scurries off to watch her entire miyazaki collection- again)


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Postby Orange Kitten » Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:15 am

Ren_sama wrote:Lol...I always noticed that a lot of Miyzaki
s main boy chracters look the same..XD hmm..is there a deeper meaning behind it!?

Most of his characters look the same from one movie to the next. Main boy characters, girl characters, side characters...you'll see the same basic design in each film.
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Postby plutogrl03 » Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:32 pm

So true, so true.
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Postby Heart of Sword » Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:30 pm

I know, but the same SCAR too? o_O
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Money, get away
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay
And all and all you're just another brick in the wall
Shoutin’ in the street gonna take on the world some day
But Bismallah will not let me go
Because I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
Bright eyes burning like fire
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids

Who will love a little Sparrow
Who's traveled far and cries for rest
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all
And if the band youre in starts playing different tunes
We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you!

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Postby bigsleepj » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:56 am

We might as well discuss why Miyazaki is so fascinated by pigs. There's a pig somewhere in most of his anime.
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Postby Jeikobu » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:40 am

The only ones that have pigs that come to my mind are Spirited Away and Porco Rosso. Then there's that TV Spot thing, whatever it's called (has the small green pig with huge eyes).
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Postby bigsleepj » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:33 pm

Actually there are pigs in:

Spirited Away
Porco Rosso
Princess Mononoke
Castle in the Sky (Briefly)
And I believe I saw some piglets on the tapestry in the beginning of "Nausicaa".
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