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Watched LITTLE NEMO: ADVENTURES IN SLUMBERLAND. Don't think I've seen it since it first came out. Its a fun collection of vignettes that loosely follow a story about how Nemo has to learn responsibility after allowing the Nightmare King to take over Slumberland due to following his own worst impulses. Animation varies, but is generally high quality - you can tell that producer Yutaka Fujoka was really trying to create a Japanese animated film with animation as fluid as Disney. May not hold up as a great narrative, but I can see why it has developed a cult following. Its also a fascinating behind the scenes story, though. Its failure led to the retirement of Fujioka who'd founded Tokyo Movie Shinsha and invested in the startup of Madhouse. A veritable whose who worked on it (including Hayao Miyazaki, Isao takahata, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnson, Yoshifumi Kondō, Yasuo Ōtsuka, Brad Bird, Kazuhide Tomonaga, John Lasseter, Jerry Rees, Osamu Dezaki, Moebius, Ray Bradbury, Chris Columbus, John Canemaker, Richard Outten, Gary Kurtz, William Hurtz, Masami Hata, Ken Anderson, Leo Salkin, Brian Froud, the Sherman Brothers); several ideas Miyazaki pitched were used in later Ghibli films and the relationships made during its long production (going back to 1975 when Fujioka began seeking the rights from Winsor McKay's family) led to Japanese animation companies partnering with US companies to make animation for the US market that by the late 80s and 90s had become a regular site on US TV. And you get great anecdotes like Thomas or Johnson (two of Disney's famed 'nine old men' looking at drawings from Miyazaki and saying "what are they expecting us to teach you?" As a side note, as a comic strip buff, I remember seeing Capcom's Little Nemo: The Dream Master platformer in 1990 (which I bought because how many Capcom platformers based on turn of the century comic strips were we going to get) and wondering how that happened (since the movie wouldn't come out in the US for 2 more years).

I can't read medical stuff on the internet. It brings out my inner hypochondriac.

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You still do that with voter rolls though, since you can only vote at that location. Extra layers sometimes just add more exploitable gaps rather than more security. It might, but it'd also theoretically gives people the ability to create airtight frames of innocent people if they're able to access your DNA profile.

Manga artist Kazuo Umezu aka Kazuo Umezz passed away Oct 28. Works included The Drifting Classroom, My Name is Shingo and Cat Eyed Boy. https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obituaries/20241105-220631/

Hong Kong actress, Lily Li

The juror #2 trailer looked more interesting than its synopsis did to me when it was announced.

Just because he wants there to be a cast of exciting young people, he still has to motivate it with story.

I watched Megalopolis (2024). Part 70s arthouse film, part 70s does the 30s film (like The Great Gatsby (1974) or Day of the Locust (1975); it swings for the fences and I wouldn't say always makes it, but it was a fun watch. Also rewatched Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001). I saw the shorter release in the theaters so hadn't seen the director's cut which I think makes some little things clearer. I also saw Wing Commander on opening day, watched the whole thing and have never played a Wing Commander game. 😄 They're not really colonists in the sense of people colonizing a frontier though; they're families brought into an existing mining colony on a labor contract who decide that they want to escape their world for a system not run by Weyland-Yutani. Its not even clear if they actually accepted the terms of the work contract or were born into it since all of the youths had parents who worked on work contracts for the company and our heroine, Rain, seems to have inherited her dad's debts. Its also unclear if any of them can actually satisfy the work contract since Rain's was extended arbitrarily by the company without explanation.