On March 2nd, Disney and Studio Ghibli released Ponyo on dvd and blu-ray, and special edition dvds of Kiki’s Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, and Castle in the Sky. All of the movies are good, but our two favorites right now are Ponyo and Kiki’s Delivery Service.

Ponyo is a movie about a fish that meets a little boy named Sosuke. He names her Ponyo. After meeting him and spending time on land for a little bit, Ponyo is brought back out to sea by her dad. He keeps her in a bubble, but she tells him she wants to be human, then she breaks out of her bubble and goes back to find Sosuke.
It’s a good movie. I like the character of Ponyo because she is energetic and she likes ham. Sosuke is smart and he’s nice.
The special edition dvds have a lot of bonus features where we can watch Miyazaki talk about the movies he made and why he made them. Those parts are interesting.
Liberty

I like Kiki’s Delivery Service because I just like how the town looks and how the characters act and how Kiki delivers stuff. And Miyazaki films were probably the first anime movies I watched and now I watch all I can! I also like Kiki’s cat, Jiji. And I always like the old-fashioned bakery where Kiki ends up working. And the old lady’s house! And sometimes I feel like I would like to work at a bakery just giving bread to people. And I liked the sound effects. If I lived in a town like Kiki’s, and my mom had to go out and buy something, I would probably go with her and just stare at the town and stuff. In the bonus features, Miyazaki says he wanted the town to look like a bunch of little European towns mashed up, but especially a town in Sweden that he visited and loved.

-Lena

P.S. Disney gave us these DVDs for free.

Ohayocon is an anime convention, and this was the first year I went. Anime is animated movies/shows from Japan, like Spirited Away, and other Miyazaki films. I like Miyazaki films, but my favorite anime series right now are “Fullmetal Alchemist” and “Death Note.”

At Ohayocon there are a lot of people who dress up as characters and sometimes they act out skits of  the character. It’s called cosplay. I recorded some of my favorite cosplay characters. I was a little excited so it was shaky, but I’ll do better today when I go again.

If you’re into anime at all you should try to go to conventions. Click here for a list of conventions all over.

Even if you can’t afford to go to a convention you can just go to the hotel where the convention is because then you can see all the cosplayers are hanging out in the halls. And that is cool. My favorite character:

Liberty, Alphonse from FMA, and Lena

Liberty.

It has 3 discs! It’s awesome, but there’s a lot of blood. But that’s ok because it’s awesome!