From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 02/04/2015 09:17 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > Hi lurkers and posters,   
   >      After reading the Show History by Mizuki Shigeru I wanted to read   
   	That should be Showa:History of Japan   
   > other   
   > works by him and the other day finished "NonNonBa" which is the story of   
   > his childhood and his education by his Grandmother who is called by all   
   >   NonNonBa.   
   >       She is well grounded in all superstitions and description of   
   > yokai and other spirits.  Shigeru is sensitive to spirits it seems and   
   > makes   
   > good friends with one of them.  Further his first love a girl destined   
   > for the   
   > water trade is equally sensitive to them and is able to get them to do   
   > things for her.   
   >   
   >      I had read a lot of the material recounted here in the first volume of   
   > Showa History, the trials of the family with a father who was not suited to   
   > business in that time.  Most of his ventures run aground and the family   
   > situation is one of the mother's constant worrying about income because   
   > she has 4 boys to feed.  NonNonBa's attention to Shigeru and to others   
   > is one of the reliefs to this anxiety.  There the attention is to what is   
   > happening in the spiritual realm.   
   >   
   >      Oh and you might notice that the family name is not Mizuki. Shigero   
   > changed   
   > his last name when he started a manga career.  I think the family name   
   > in the   
   > manga is slightly longer than his true last name.   
   >   
   >      There is enough here for a season of anime at least but it would be   
   > very   
   > different from most anime we see in the USA.  But he did use what he   
   > learned   
   > from NonNonBa to write some of his best known works.  One of the them   
   > had its name changed to "Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro" when it became an anime.   
   >      The Wikepedia entry gives lots of details of his triumphs and of his   
   > realistic pacifism.   
   >    
   >   
   >          bliss   
      
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