Shigofumi

Has anyone said you have another language's accent on the language you are speaking?

I'm fluent in 4 languages in this order: Russian, Hebrew, Spanish, English. Somehow my Spanish has a Russian accent. And my Russian has an English accent. My Hebrew has a Spanish accent. And my English has no accent (I worked really hard to have a neutral English accent. It allows me to easily do accents of other English regions like British-English and Scottish-english and Australian-english).

Do you have the same problem?

I have two question!

What was your inspiration for Mai Mai Miracle? I imported the DVD and my niece loves the movie even though she can't understand Japanese (well, she can't understand much she's only a year and half old). You really captured something magical for her fussy-self to sit down and watch the entire thing quietly.

How was it like to work with Studio 4°C in the production of Princess Arete? I know the studio was an off-shoot of Studio Ghibli but it's generally a more avant-garde studio so I was surprised a gentler adventure movie was made.