Mai Mai Miracle: Go Fund It


Watch it, and then fund it. What is it? This is a movie by Sunao Katabuchi, the assistant director of Kiki's Delivery Service, which was by Hayao Miyazaki. As I have written before, I love love love Miyazaki movies. Here I am, being sucked into spending more money due to my fear of Miyazaki not making any more movies. But I have no regrets. This movie looks amazing.

Why does it look amazing? For one, the background art is enough to justify the movie on its own. It's like watching a moving art gallery, with the paintings parading by in orderly rows. From what I have read of the plot, which you can read on the Kickstarter page, it's about two young girls, one of whom has an enormous imagination and likes to imagine vividly and on screen what her world was like a thousand years ago. The girls essentially time travel through imagination. How awesome is that?

I am not an anime connoisseur by any means, but I mean to educate myself. This film was never able to bring in enough success to breach the borders of the Japanese language and thus remains inaccessible to much of the world. But this Kickstarter has already changed that! They hit their funding goal of $30,000 to make the subtitled version in just a day or two, and their first stretch goal of $60,000 to make a dub version shortly thereafter, and they're still planning more stretch goals!

So there's no risk now; the English language version is a guarantee. I have pledged already. You have until March 7th at midday to make your decision, but if you pledge now you can be a part of voting on what extras get added as stretch goals. It's a really fun experience. If you're not familiar with Kickstarter, it's super easy. Payments are handled through Amazon, and you don't get charged until the end of the campaign in March. You don't get charged at all unless the campaign hits its goal, but this one reached its goal already. :)

Comment with any questions and I'll happily answer! Comment that you're going to pledge and I will give you a virtual high-five, unless I know you in person and you live around here, in which case I will give you a real hug!

Have any of you readers backed other Kickstarter projects before? What were they?

Comments

  1. gravitystixFebruary 11, 2014 at 7:44 PM

    I'll just come watch it with you! :D

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  2. BaileyAnneBravelyFebruary 11, 2014 at 7:59 PM

    Haha done. Virtual high-five now and hugs for later. You could still pledge a dollar though. :-P

    ReplyDelete

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