Japan

I once heard a social activist making a presentation, and during the discussion period that followed a member of the audience commented that she found the presenter’s work inspiring. The presenter responded by asking the audience member what she was inspired to do. There was a long pause. The presenter used that moment as an opportunity to

“Consistency,” Wilde declared in an essay, “is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

When the editors of Animage encouraged me to create a manga, I got all excited and, as fate would have it, decided to create my own version of Nausicaä. I am now forced to reflect yet again on why, years ago, I once gave up drawing manga because I felt I lacked talent. At this point, I hope that I can somehow bring this young heroine into a world

Without the light from the moon, the night was so dark he could barely make out the trees until he was almost bumping into them.

The clear river flows, slides, splashes and rolls downstream rushing between rocks that funnel the water into narrow passages curling into quiet eddies that reflect sky, clouds, and brilliant sun. On a pale spring day the silver-sided fish swim upstream fulfilling their assignment to perpetuate their lives. Look carefully. See how the current

YOUTH: My life is determined at this exact point? PHILOSOPHER: Yes, because the past does not exist.