zodiacal nostalgia...

[Tisha]

A little book titled The Little Prince.

hey, has anyone seen the japanese "anime" (?) Totoro?  I loved it.

[LA FORET MAUVE]

yes, the little prince ("le petit prince" is the original title) is definitively one of the my favorites. It was written by Antoine de Saint-exupery, a french writer and pilot who disapeared with his plane in the sea...
And "Tonnari no Totoro" is definitevely my favorite anime from the Ghibli studio (the Miazaki's studio) ! So magical and emotive...one can feel in this movie, the magic touch of the japanese countryside in the summer...

[Nayru]

I know Le Petit Prince.. though I can not remember what it was about.. I just remember, I think, that I was not very fond of it.

A great deal of things have influenced me and are still influencing me. What is influencing me is The Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan, what has, for example, influenced me is a dutch book for little kids called The Blue Rabbit. Basically, the story is in a forest, with all animals. Then two rabbits get a kid-rabbit, but the kid is blue. He has of course many adventures with his little friends, but in the meanwhile teaches you a lot about friendship, exploration of possibilities, objectivity, the good thing about helping people learning you that you don't need a reward for it, but that helping itself is a reward, etc.

[LA FORET MAUVE]

Hmm...this is a little on the "dbz" note...
As you all know, i am located in Japan now and tonight as i was looking for a video to watch in a video store, i had the funny idea to watch the japanese version of "zodiac knights" (i don't know if it was the same title in english), in japanese: SAINT SEYA...
It was for more than 15 years i didn't saw this japanese animation !!!( i was around 7-9 years old) I felt very nostalgic and to my surprise, i found that i didn't forgot a lot of the characters, actions, sounds etc...
This anime was finishing aproximatively when the firsts episods of Dragon ball (not dragon ball Z) were released.
It made me thinking a little and realise how inconsciously, i was influenced (in good in my opinion) by this manga. In fact it pushed more on the "spiritual path" than the catholic "sessions" i use to have with others childrens of my age. I remember it was how i learned for the first time the zodiacal signs and theyr symbolism hehe...
To resume (because my lack of knowledge in english must be frustrating for you too): the works of imaginations did more benefits than the works of religion itself...
Differents generations are present on this forum but i'm sure everybody here can think, remember of a movie, a book, a toy, a song wich did so much to give the envy, the urge to progress, to go further the apparences...no ? [|)]