ANIME KIDS

Goro Miyazaki, son of master animator Hayao Miyazaki (HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE), is moving ahead with his adaptation of WIZARD OF EARTHSEA as well as with his production blog. No juicy news so far, but he does talk about his attempt to get out from under his father's shadow by going into gardening. Adam over at Mutant Frog is translating his posts and you can read them here and here.

Also, the feature film of BLACKJACK, the anime from Osamu Tezuka's wildly popular manga, was directed by Tezuka's son, Macoto Tezuka. The movie has apparently done well but is quite dark since it involved the renegade surgeon, Blackjack, fighting his enemy, Dr. Kiriko, who is a euthanasia specialist.