#ursula studio ghibli

[proppmess]

Ursula with watercolors🎨

[boyofzoot]

Ursula From Kiki’s Delivery Service

Commission Info | Patreon

[silvertook]

Been meaning to practice background painting, and I was finally inspired by that one scene in A Wizard of Earthsea. I just finished devouring the first three books and wow it’s such a good series 🐉

[fairy25]

thinking about this absolute queen yet again

[americassoldierboy]

What Kiki’s Delivery Service teaches us about burnout and allowing us to take a break

[teenytraveler]

The illustration I got to work on for @ghiblicookbook zine! Just Kiki and Ursula enjoying some delicious looking pancakes for breakfast 🥺💖

[bypatia]

Tove Jansson 🤝 Ursula K. Le Guin

Hating Miyazaki’s interpretation of their works

[taravangianlistenstothebeachboys]

Some notes from watching Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea:

I guess they were hoping having Lebannen be a killer runaway would make him more engaging a character than he was in Le Guin's books. Certainly its a more exciting introduction than "was sent to Roke and Ged decided he should tag along." But this is hampered by how Lebannen and all these characters have maybe two character traits between them.

No matter how bad the movie is, if its a Ghibli film its gonna be beautiful. The background artists for this should be given a medal. Hork town especially is incredible:

Although these are clearly Ghibli asthetics more than Earthsea aesthetics. We got all your Ghibli staples: the weird mammals that are almost real animals, the random fighterpilot elements in the costume design, that one weird type of hood, etc.

I do like the action scene of Lebannen dealing with the slavers. Only well-paced part of the film I've seen.

The shadow "visiting" Lebannen while he rests was done very well. The color dimming, the shadow on the water, the rushing wind towards him, its all great. I'm especially a fan of how when Lebannen looks over his shoulder, he sees nothing but a stream of water coming out of a wall. Fits with what's actually happening on in the dryland very well.

The "Ged rescues Lebannen but only takes the chains off the other slaves" is a weird detail to keep in the adaptation, though I guess it's less an obviously dick move when the slaves aren't trapped on a boat with their former captors.

I feel mixed about this version of Cob? Making him the slaver lord isn't a bad choice, though it does kind of positions slavery in Earthsea as "the bad thing that the one bad guy is doing" instead of, y'know, a cornerstone of Hork Town's economy.

They don't make him an especially originally villain either. He's literally introduced with the old "flash of villains castle, lieutenant comes in nervously to report on escape, almost gets killed until he mentions something important" trope. They did kind of flatten him into the stock fantasy big bad.

But Cob from the books didn't really have a lot going on character-wise either, so its less offensive a flattening than some of the other characters. And I do like his character design alot. That eye makeup is some Hot Topic Shit but it works. The thin lips and tall everything is a type of exaggeration I don't see in Ghibli's character design very often.

Christ, Ged's monologue about the balance and true names is really just plopped on the audience's lap like a dead mouse. The bridge from "why does a wizard like farming" to "everything has a true name that wizard's use for its power" is nonexistent. They really couldn't find another place to explain the basics of the magic system? Couldn't seed it with Ged using true names while freeing the slaves? No? Lord.

The ghibli food twitters aren't gonna touch this movie. No love was put into that cheese.

Oh this depiction of the dry lands fucks. Love how the sky is a completely different artstyle than anything else in this movie, really sells this as a weird and alien place.

Hare and two suspicious women clutching each other and going "they're not from around here" are the only time this movie has felt like it knew what it was doing. They're giving them banter and the actors are being allowed to put emotion into their voices. They're actually breaking out facial expressions for these guys.

God all the dialogue is so bad.

WHEN IS THIS SONG GONNA FUCKING END

What the fuck is Lebannen and Tehanu's relationship. None of their emotional beats have any real connection.

The thing haunting Lebannen (are they giving him the gebbeth plotline?) always makes the best scenes. Lebannen struggling to wade through the muck while the shadow casually strolls atop the water's surface creates such great tension and horror.

Tenar keeps talking about being rescued from the tombs and pausing like there's about to be a flashback. Why are they bringing so much attention to that detail if they're not gonna tie it in to anything. Either have it be an aside to make the world feel richer without it being a thing your constantly gesturing at, or don't bring it up at all.

It really was a choice to take the worst Earthsea book as the main thing they're adapting. All the "life without death is no life" rubbish and not even Le Guin's prose to save it. It's not even a theme the rest of the movie seems concerned with.

Why are they taking something called "Earthsea" and making 90% the outskirts of Hork Town. We saw the ocean like twice. This supposedly expansive fantasy world feels twenty feet across.

Having Tehanu follow the gebbeth to the castle is honestly a really cool adaptational choice. I do like the weird conflict they set up between the gebbeth and Cob over who gets to have Lebannen.

Great shot of Cob getting amputated. Thats some Mononoke-level satisfying gore.

See when Ged didn't do shit for most of The Far Shore it was fine, because it was the third book in the series and the reader already knew why he was a big deal. Here we keep hearing how cool and powerful he is but get shown nothing.

2D has grown odd in his old age.

They have not set up dragons as a thing (or connectd them to Tehanu) nearly enough for this ending to work. Having Tehanu transform instead of calling Kalesin works adaptation-wise though.

Final analysis: I liked Hork Town. I like how the dragons trail sparks from their eyes. I like Cob going all gooey. I like Hare. These were the isolated pockets in an otherwise bland experience. The plot was barely held together and I can't imagine someone who hadn't read the books would be able to enjoy this at all.

[mina-ahavi]

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 2 Poll LLL

"His name is the Italian word for orange (arancia) with an N tacked on."

Lebannen means rowan in-universe

(Oranges and rowan)

[b3-my-darling]

no thoughts just live in cabin in the woods and draw all day. (also befriend little girl who is a witch in training)

[jacquelinemerritt]

Tales From Earthsea Hurts...

My latest video about Tales from Earthsea is out now!

Go watch it and feel things. This one is really emotionally vulnerable, and I literally have cried every time I have watched the outro of it.

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

If I had a nickel for every animation studio that gave us a lesbian icon named Ursula in 1989, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[theloveandthedead]

“No man nor any living thing in this world preserves their life forever. But only to man is it given to know that we must die, and that is a precious gift. This life that is both our torment and our treasure was never meant to endure for eternity. Life is a wave on the sea, would you force the sea to grow still to save one wave, to save yourself?” - Sparrowhawk “Tales from Earthsea”

I would love to see how Alucard or Olivia would react to being told this by a wise mage

[morningshush]

An essay on why Ursula from Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) is queer:

Because I, a queer, say so.

[orlandrake]

I so desperately want disappear into a Studio Ghibli film. Please, bro. I’m begging.