Ghibli Club scheduling

Here is a table of the current schedule as it stands which will try to update the links semi-regularly. 

There is also a Google calendar that you can see of these dates and you can subscribe to this calendar too [link to subscribe] to join in easily.

Watch order	Original Title	UK title	Netflix	3WR post	Watched (by)
1	風の谷のナウシカ	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	[vid]	[blog]	18 Jan 2021
2	天空の城ラピュタ	Laputa: Castle in the Sky	[vid]	[blog]	25 Jan 2021
3	となりのトトロ	My Neighbour Totoro	[vid]	[blog]	1 Feb 2021
4	魔女の宅急便	Kiki's Delivery Service	[vid]	[blog]	8 Feb 2021
5	おもひでぽろぽろ	Only Yesterday	[vid]	[blog]	15 Feb 2021
	Discussion Forum 1-5	From Nausicaa to Yesterday			22 Feb 2021
6	紅の豚	Porco Rosso	[vid]	[blog]	22 Feb 2021
a	君の名は。	Your Name.	[vid]	[blog]	1 Mar 2021
7	海がきこえる	Ocean Waves	[vid]	[blog]	8 Mar 2021
8	平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ	Pom Poko	[vid]	[blog]	15 Mar 2021
9	耳をすませば	Whisper of the Heart	[vid]	[blog]	22 Mar 2021
10	もののけ姫	Princess Mononoke	[vid]	[blog]	29 Mar 2021
	Discussion Forum 6-10	Porco Princess			31 Mar 2021
b	言の葉の庭	The Garden Of Words	[vid]	[blog]	5 Apr 2021
11	ホーホケキョ となりの山田くん	My Neighbours the Yamadas	[vid]		12 Apr 2021
12	千と千尋の神隠し	Spirited Away	[vid]		19 Apr 2021
	Discussion Forum b-12	Gardening Away			21 Apr 2021
13	猫の恩返し	The Cat Returns	[vid]		26 Apr 2021
14	ハウルの動く城	Howl's Moving Castle	[vid]		3 May 2021
15	ゲド戦記	Tales from Earthsea	[vid]		10 May 2021
c	tbd	tbd	[vid]		17 May 2021
	Discussion Forum 13-c	The Cat comes back around the side			19 May 2021
16	崖の上のポニョ	Ponyo	[vid]		24 May 2021
17	借りぐらしのアリエッティ	Arrietty	[vid]		31 May 2021
18	コクリコ坂から	From Up on Poppy Hill	[vid]		7 Jun 2021
	Discussion Forum 16-18	Ponyo's Hill			9 Jun 2021
19	風立ちぬ	The Wind Rises	[vid]		14 Jun 2021
20	かぐや姫の物語	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	[vid]		21 Jun 2021
21	思い出のマーニー	When Marnie Was There	[vid]		28 Jun 2021
d	tbd	tbd	[vid]		5 Jul 2021
	Discussion Forum 19-d	The Wind was There			10 Jul 2021

Ghibli Club update (post Porco Rosso)

UPDATE Notice

The club has been coming along quite well and we have seen 6 (plus 1) films under the umbrella now.

A few things have been tightened up and decided since we started so worth staging them for all:

• The films are being watched chronologically (including what is on Netflix only, so sadly skipping Grave of the Fireflies). This means we can essentially have a schedule (as at time pasted below^[1], live version *here*) decided in advance.
• We have a “break week” every fifth film to allow both a rest and also to allow more people to catch up if they have fallen behind a little, or have maybe started in the middle.
• Within the break week, we also choose (one person nominates) a side film - or a Ghibli Gaiden [ジブリクラブ外伝] that is considered, in some way, Ghibli adjacent^[2]. The first is Your Name. / 君の名は。 which is adjacent as it was successful enough to be the highest-grossing non-Miyazaki anime ever.
• The break week also allows us a chance to have a discussion forum about the previous five films. 6 people attended the first one which covered from Nausicaa to Only Yesterday. I think it is fairly safe to say that there was a wide gamut of opinion across the 5 films^[3]. The discussion lasted about 2 hours for the five films (and some other introductions etc) but it was a nice, informal way of learning a little more.
  The next discussion will take place at the end of March, please help us decide when by voting in the doodle poll.

Watch order	Original Title	UK title	Netflix	3WR post	Watched (by)
1	風の谷のナウシカ	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	[vid]	[blog]	18 Jan 2021
2	天空の城ラピュタ	Laputa: Castle in the Sky	[vid]	[blog]	25 Jan 2021
3	となりのトトロ	My Neighbour Totoro	[vid]	[blog]	1 Feb 2021
4	魔女の宅急便	Kiki's Delivery Service	[vid]	[blog]	8 Feb 2021
5	おもひでぽろぽろ	Only Yesterday	[vid]	[blog]	15 Feb 2021
	Discussion Forum 1-5	From Nausicaa to Yesterday			22 Feb 2021
6	紅の豚	Porco Rosso	[vid]	[blog]	22 Feb 2021
a	君の名は。	Your Name.	[vid]		1 Mar 2021
7	海がきこえる	Ocean Waves	[vid]		8 Mar 2021
8	平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ	Pom Poko	[vid]		15 Mar 2021
9	耳をすませば	Whisper of the Heart	[vid]		22 Mar 2021
10	もののけ姫	Princess Mononoke	[vid]		29 Mar 2021
	Discussion Forum 6-10	Porco Princess			w/c 29 Mar 21
b	tbd	tbd	[vid]		5 Apr 2021
11	ホーホケキョ となりの山田くん	My Neighbours the Yamadas	[vid]		12 Apr 2021
12	千と千尋の神隠し	Spirited Away	[vid]		19 Apr 2021
13	猫の恩返し	The Cat Returns	[vid]		26 Apr 2021
14	ハウルの動く城	Howl's Moving Castle	[vid]		3 May 2021
15	ゲド戦記	Tales from Earthsea	[vid]		10 May 2021
	Discussion Forum 11-15	My Neighbours from Earthsea			w/c 10 May 21
c	tbd	tbd	[vid]		17 May 2021
16	崖の上のポニョ	Ponyo	[vid]		24 May 2021
17	借りぐらしのアリエッティ	Arrietty	[vid]		31 May 2021
18	コクリコ坂から	From Up on Poppy Hill	[vid]		7 Jun 2021
19	風立ちぬ	The Wind Rises	[vid]		14 Jun 2021
20	かぐや姫の物語	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	[vid]		21 Jun 2021
21	思い出のマーニー	When Marnie Was There	[vid]		28 Jun 2021
	Discussion Forum 16-20	Ponyo Was There			w/c 28 Jun 21
d	tbd	tbd	[vid]		5 Jul 2021

<sup>1. Sadly, my html knowledge of tables is pretty bad, so it looks a little poor. Please help me!↩
2. Adjacency does not mean that the film must be Japanese and/or animated - it is up to the person nominating. For example, another film about witches would be acceptable as linked to Kiki’s Delivery Service.↩
3. Generally positive but there was some significant negativity towards Only Yesterday in particular.↩</sup>

[3WR] 紅の豚 / Porco Rosso (1991)

 

 紅の豚    Porco Rosso[link to netflix]

Released: 18 July 1992 (93 min)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Producer: Toshio Suzuki

As part of Ghibli Club, each person submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list? 

Reviews:

Fio saves bacon

Awesome Aerial Acrobatics!

Wine swigging swine

Porcine Antifacist Flyer

Pig's gotta fly

Devilishly Handsome Heroism 

Cartoonish dogfight hybrid

[3WR] おもひでぽろぽろ / Only Yesterday (1991)

 

 おもひでぽろぽろ    Only Yesterday[link to netflix]  

Released: 20 July 1991 (119 min)

Director: Isao Takahata

Producer: Toshio Suzuki

As part of Ghibli Club, each person submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list? 

Reviews:

Overcoming child abuse

Rouge tinted nostalgia

Reflection achieves connection

Puppets steal show

Teako drums love

Farming new memories

Expecting Carpenters Biopic?

Antifeminist flashback farmtale 

Gradual stepdown flashbacks

Quick change

How long does it take to change a tyre?

It should take you around 30 minutes to change a tyre and get back on the road

How long does it take to change four tyres?

1.82 seconds: Red Bull Racing record the fastest tire change in Formula 1 history

It is odd that not only is it not just four times as long as the time to change one, it is far quicker, in fact.

Formula 1 motor racing is seen as the pinnacle of motor racing by most people and has seen huge advances over the decades in terms of technological breakthroughs. Initially, most of these improvements came from brute force - applying more power to the problem. Over time, however, the problem hasn't been about how to apply more power but about how to apply a restricted level of power - driving efficiency out of parts. This is quite a fundamental change in approach.

Not all changes, however, have been purely technological and over the decades, there has been a massive decrease in the amount of time to change tyres.

Currently, a good tyre change (all four tyres) takes about 3 seconds (the fastest are below 2) which is just astonishing when you see it. (video)

That is a difference of about 25 seconds since 1950 although those original pit stops involved far fewer people at 2 or 3 versus 20 (have a look here). Can you just chuck more resource at the problem?

So, is the current pit stop actually so much more efficient than an old one? That surely depends on the metrics being observed.
Maybe we should consider the number of man-hours involved rather than just time. That would give us (3 x 25) 75s vs (20 x 3) 60s so the second one is more efficient on that metric too.

In a race, the time taken is absolutely key but in other situations, cost will be. That means 20 salaries instead of 3. Can you imagine a local garage offering a 60 second tyre change being able to make money off it?

In the past, I used to be an English Language teacher and we would have a limit to the number of hours we could work each day. It was six hours. That seems a pretty low amount as a limit but this was only for our contact hours. School teachers in the UK teach for about 40 weeks out of the 52 in the year but you won't find many teachers that work for only 40 weeks. There is a lot of preparation (and marking, oh god the marking) for that contact time.

So, with that in mind, how long does it take to change a tyre?

In order to get that 3 seconds of contact time, you need

• about 20 people to know what they are doing
• Tyres placed correctly
• People positioned at the right place
• A driver that comes in correctly (timing, distance, angle)
• Equipment that works for that short period of time
• Somewhere to place the replaced tyres
• A driver that leaves the spot correctly (timing, distance, angle)
• The ability to go again when the other driver comes in

All of those things are done around the contact time and preparation and training also takes time. There is little point in having more people if you are not actually using them at the same time - parallel processing rather than serial. 20 people doing the old process would be quicker, but not to the same level at all.

The point is, being quick can be incredibly time consuming and take more time than being slow but sometimes you need to be quick at the right time. It isn't just about practice but you have to get your ducks in a row too. Planning the right order, getting things into a flow and invoking muscle memory - that is what will allow things to be done quickly, correctly and effectively.

And, for fun, here is a video of changing tyres in zero gravity!

[3WR] 魔女の宅急便 / Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

 

 魔女の宅急便    Kiki's Delivery Service[link to netflix]  

Released: 29 July 1989 (102 min)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Producer: Hayao Miyazaki

As part of Ghibli Club, each person submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list? 

Reviews:

Kiki's Dee-Lightful
Witch invents Deliveroo
Supergirl does Amazon 
Pie by sky
Key(ki) Growth Deliverables
Windswept witch wavers
Unreliable Flying Objects
Wholesome witching wonderment 

[3WR] となりのトトロ / My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

 となりのトトロ    My Neighbour Totoro [link to netflix]  

Released: 16 April 1988 (86 min)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Producer: Toru Hara

As part of Ghibli Club, each person submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list? 

Reviews:

Imaginative Parenting Solutions 
Catbus saves day
Acorns growing love
The Cational Express
Not my neighbour
Shit eating grins
Satsuki's acid trip 

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