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 Holland (Michigan)
 South Haven
 Saint Joseph (Michigan)
 Indiana Dunes State Park (Dunes Nature Preserve)
 Shedd Aquarium
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10:00 am  start in Grand Rapids
drive for about 34 minutes

10:34 am  Holland (Michigan)
stay for about 1 hour
and leave at 11:34 am
drive for about 33 minutes

12:07 pm  South Haven
stay for about 1 hour
and leave at 1:07 pm
drive for about 30 minutes

1:37 pm  Saint Joseph (Michigan)
stay for about 1 hour
and leave at 2:37 pm
drive for about 56 minutes

3:33 pm  Indiana Dunes State Park (Dunes Nature Preserve)
stay for about 1 hour
and leave at 4:33 pm
drive for about 48 minutes

5:22 pm  Shedd Aquarium
stay for about 1 hour
and leave at 6:22 pm
drive for about 5 minutes

6:27 pm  arrive in Chicago
eat at Kasey’s Tavern
stay at Wyndham Blake Chicago

driving ≈ 3.5 hours

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Holland (Michigan)  (7 answers)
    Ottawa County Fairgrounds  (1 mention)
    Dutch Treat Camping and Recreation  (1 mention)
    Drews Country Camping  (1 mention)
    Oak Grove Campground Resort  (1 mention)
    Lake Macatawa - Holland State Park  (1 mention)
    Beach - Holland State Park  (1 mention)
    restaurants around Holland (Michigan):
        The Hungry Dutchman Cafe
    hotels around Holland (Michigan):
        CityFlats Hotel
        Knights Inn Holland
        Days Inn Holland (Michigan)
        Microtel Inn & Suites Holland
        Americas Best Value Inn & Suites-Holland

South Haven  (7 answers)
    Kal-Haven RV Park Campground  (1 mention)
    Cousins Campground  (1 mention)
    Sunny Brook RV Resort  (1 mention)
    Kal-Haven Outpost  (1 mention)
    Van Buren State Park  (1 mention)
    Yogi Bear Jellystone Park South Haven  (1 mention)
    Covert Park Beach and Campground  (1 mention)
    hotels around South Haven:
        Covert Park Beach & Campground

Saint Joseph (Michigan)  (2 answers)
    Eden Springs Park at the House of David  (1 mention)
    restaurants around Saint Joseph (Michigan):
        Caffe Tosi
        Mason Jar Cafe
    hotels around Saint Joseph (Michigan):
        Silver Beach Hotel Saint Joseph (Michigan)
        Howard Johnson Benton Harbor
        Economy Inn Benton Harbor
        Super 8 Stevensville
        Loyalty Inn Benton Harbor
        House of David Travel Trailer Park

Indiana Dunes State Park (Dunes Nature Preserve)  (4 mentions)
    Indiana Dunes State Park  (1 mention)
    Dunewood - Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore  (1 mention)
    Sand Creek Campground  (1 mention)
    Michigan City Campground  (1 mention)
    Blue Chip Casino  (1 mention)
    restaurants around Indiana Dunes State Park (Dunes Nature Preserve):
        Bartlett’s Gourmet Grill and Tavern
    hotels around Indiana Dunes State Park (Dunes Nature Preserve):
        Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore - Dunewood Campground
        WaterBird Lakeside Inn
        Econo Lodge Chesterton
        Super 8 Chesterton

Shedd Aquarium  (54 mentions)
    McCormick Place Truck Marshalling Yard  (1 mention)
    restaurants around Shedd Aquarium:
        Kasey’s Tavern
    hotels around Shedd Aquarium:
        Hilton Chicago
        The Blackstone

Where's the best place to stay in Chicago?

Are you going straight to a hotel, or looking for a vacation rental or Airbnb?

The best resource on neighborhoods, areas, and hotels is the Trippy page on where to stay in Chicago.

You can also see most people recommend as the best amount of time to visit. Find out how many days in Chicago to stay.

If you're looking for a quick answer, you can check out Wyndham Blake Chicago.

Here are some more hotels people talk about:

The Blackstone  (1 mention)

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Where's the best place to eat in Chicago?

Need some recommendations on somewhere to get food?

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What are some things to do in Chicago?

This section could be endless, so rather than trying to suggest every local activity or attraction, we'll leave it open-ended.

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Do I really have to go back home?

Yes, even this step is optional, because if you're on vacation who wants the trip to end? It's okay, you can start planning your next trip!

Want to plan the trip back? Get the reverse directions for a Chicago to Grand Rapids drive in an RV, or go to the main page to plan a new road trip.

Looking for ideas for more destinations within driving distance of Grand Rapids? Try searching for places within 3 hours of Grand Rapids.

You can also compare the travel time if you're flying or driving by calculating the distance from Grand Rapids to Chicago. Or get a full Grand Rapids to Chicago flight plan.

Don't forget about exploring your own hometown with a staycation. You can also find some cool day trips or get away for a weekend. Maybe try typing in a faraway location like London, Hong Kong, or Sydney, and get inspired for your dream trip around the world.

And if you know Grand Rapids well, please help your fellow travelers and answer their questions about Grand Rapids!

At a Glance
without making any stops
total driving distance is 176 miles
driving time of 2 hours, 47 minutes
Chicago is 1 hour behind Grand Rapids
11 Grand Rapids travel answers
7 Holland (Michigan) travel answers
7 South Haven travel answers
2 Saint Joseph (Michigan) travel answers
309 Chicago travel answers

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Mack Trucks and New York Launch Dimethyl Ether Fuel Test

January 13, 2017 by John O'Dell

Mack Trucks is reigniting interest in Dimethyl Ether, or DME, a clean-burning alternative to diesel, with a new field test to be conducted in partnership with Oberon Fuels and New York City’s sanitation department.

The test, using a Class 8 Mack Pinnacle tractor with a 13-liter engine, began this week and is scheduled to run for several weeks of evaluation, with results to be published by mid-year.

It is the first commercial test of a DME-powered Mack. The truck maker, along with its parent company Volvo Trucks, voiced interest in the fuel several years ago, but low diesel prices dampened enthusiasm for alternative fuels and both companies canceled their planned DME engine projects in late 2014.

But with growing political and social pressure for cleaner vehicle emissions, alternative fuels are catching on again.

“We believe DME shows great promise,” said Dennis Slagle, president of Mack Trucks.

DME is a liquid fuel that doesn’t require refrigeration or high-pressure compression. It can be produced from a number of feedstocks including natural gas, coal and renewable sources such as paper, wood, agricultural and animal waste; biofuel crops such as soybeans, sugarcane and corn; and even from municipal waste – an attractive idea for the New York sanitation department.

It can be used in diesel or gasoline engines, and can also be blended with liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, for use in diesel engines as a DME-LPG blend.

The fuel is easy to handle and can be a very low carbon fuel when produced from bio-based sources, said Bill Van Amburg, senior vice president and head of truck programs at CalStart, the Pasadena-based clean transportations technologies coalition.

A second benefit, he said, is that truck engines running on DME can potentially be less expensive than conventional diesel engines because their emissions treatment systems would not be as complex.

Volvo has continued DME testing projects with its customer-owned trucks and has called the fuel a potential game-changer. The fuel is approved for use nationally and meets California’s tough low-carbon fuels standards. DME also recently became eligible for clean fuel tax credits in the state of Washington.

Ford Motor Co. and the German government launched a three-year, 3.5-million Euro project in late 2015 to develop and test a DME-fueled passenger car, with San Diego, Calif.- based Oberon Fuels providing the fuel.

Companies interested in DME understand that the present low prices of gasoline and diesel fuel won’t last – that fuel prices are volatile – and are looking for a replacement with a predictable price that will allow long-range cost planning, Rebecca Boudreaux, Oberon’s president, told in an interview last year.

Mack’s new test with New York’s sanitation department will examine if DME fuel costs in real world operating conditions can match diesel fuel costs, said Roy Horton, product strategy director at Mack Trucks.

The fuel “has potential to be a long-term option for us, and this initial test is an important first step in the evaluation process,” said Rocco DiRico, the sanitation department’s deputy commissioner. The department operates more than 7,000 trucks and is one of Mack’s largest customers.

The federal Energy Department has tested DME and found that it can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent or more. New York City has set dual goals of reducing greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050 (from 2005 levels) and of recycling municipal waste so that by 2030 none is sent to landfills.

Oberon’s production system would permit it to establish on-site DME refineries at landfills, producing the fuel from the waste that otherwise would be deposited in the sites.

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Trade reacts to Philippine Airlines’ restructuring plan

While Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) financial restructuring has no immediate impact on the travel sector, it will be a smaller airline with its future determined by the pandemic’s duration and how long its recovery plan can be sustained, according to the travel trade.

Tourism Congress of the Philippines president, Jojo Clemente, does not see an immediate effect to the airline pursuing a corporate rehabilitation programme, “especially if PAL can manage to keep fares competitive and affordable”.

Philippine Airlines filed for bankruptcy in the US after pandemic guts air travel demand

In the medium term, however, PAL’s recovery “will depend on how the measures they adopt in the short-term pan out,” Clemente said. “If they are able to keep demand or if the pandemic situation gradually improves, they may be able to sustain the recovery programme.

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Former tourism secretary and founder of consultancy Asia Pacific Projects, Narzalina Lim, said “PAL will be a smaller airline”. The airline’s fleet will shrink by 25 per cent, as it will return 22 aircraft, leaving it with a fleet of 70. PAL will also delay the delivery or cancel orders for 13 Airbus aircraft.

Lim believed that with PAL chairman Lucio Tan infusing US$505 million – a portion of which will be converted to equity – into the restructuring plan, alongside US$150 million of additional debt financing from new investors, the airline will not require the help of the Philippine government to bail it out.

At any rate, Tuano said that “the government has just too much on its plate right now and I am uncertain they should drop everything to throw a lifeline to a single company”.

If passenger demand does not pick up as expected next year, an option is for PAL to convert some of its aircraft into cargo aircraft as “the cargo business can be more lucrative than passenger”, said Lim. “Companies always have to reinvent themselves to survive and PAL is no exception,” she added.

The government has to act on the request of the Air Carriers Association of the Philippines – PAL, Cebu Pacific and AirAsia Philippines – for loan guarantees so that banks can open their credit lines to airlines, considered as poor credit risk in this time of pandemic.

Hospitality consultant Jerome de la Fuente said the government should have come in by now to help PAL as the airline is “the pride and glory of the country”. “It is the national flag carrier, and the oldest airline in Asia with 80 years of history. It is a legacy carrier. Can you imagine a flag carrier owned by a foreigner?” he added.

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De la Fuente said that somewhere along the line, more money had to be pump into PAL to keep it afloat, just like Malaysian Airlines, Japan Airlines and other carriers that are still surviving after having declared bankruptcy.

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Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere: An Illustrated Introduction provides a complete foundation in the practice of one of the most distinctive and useful Japanese martial arts.

Aikido was created in Japan in the 1920's by Morihei Ueshiba, also known as Osensei. To possess the skills, techniques and attitude of the faithful practitioner of aikido, one must achieve a very high level of integration of the powers of mind and body, the harmonious combination of physical means and ethical motives. By controlling body position and learning how to harmonize important physical and mental abilities, anyone (regardless of size, strength or weight) can fend off attacks using this sophisticated martial art.

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Adele Westbrook studied philosophy at Columbia University at the same time co-author Oscar Ratti was doing graduate work in the classical languages. They began to practice aikido together, and while studying under a variety of instructors in the United States and Europe, started the collection of notes and sketches which finally developed into this illustrated introduction to the art of aikido.

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Did Sailor Moon’s Ikuhara Really Direct a Ninja Turtles Cartoon?

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Senshi?

As I’m sure many of you have already heard, the story about how famed anime Director Kunihiko Ikuhara — known for such works as Sailor MoonRevolutionary Girl Utena, and the recent smash hit Sarazanmai — secretly directed the one of the first episodes that turned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into a household name is hitting all the major anime news outlets and taking social media by storm.

In light of his spectacular portfolio and what a revolutionary series Ninja Turtles would become, the story certainly seems believable. What’s more, it’s even backed up by a statement by the story writer, David Wise, himself.

But is this really the case? Well, as they say, if something is too good to be true1

If you told me I'd be blogging about Ninja Turtles on a Sailor Moon blog, I'd have never believed you...

If you told me I’d be blogging about Ninja Turtles on a Sailor Moon blog, I’d have never believed you…

Before we start dissecting things, it’s probably best that we at least put together as much of the story as we can.

First and foremost, David Wise never actually mentions Kunihiko Ikuhara by name in his 2013 interview with Cowabunga Corner, but it’s pretty obvious who he’s talking about:2

I later discovered [episode 4, “Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X “] was actually directed by… oh, Lord, I’m not going to be able to remember his name now. But he was the director of the… all but, I think all but the first season of Sailor Moon.

God, um, he used to live out here. We went, we went out and had dinner and he was like… and I was talking about this episode and he goes “Yeah yeah yeah,” and he’s eating it up and I go “Dude, what’s the deal?” And he goes “I directed it.”

For a little bit of context, David Wise had been told that the animation for episode 4, which he notes as one of his favorites for that reason alone, was done by TOEI Animation. And not only that, but that it was done by their “A Team,” usually reserved for domestic anime to be released in Japan and not the “B Team” that was usually assigned to cartoons produced abroad.

Let's just say that animation errors weren't a rarity in the 80s

Let’s just say that animation errors weren’t a rarity in the 80s

On the surface, his statement is entirely believable. We know for a fact that TOEI Animation did work on the first five episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles due to information provided on their own website.3 Though we don’t know the extent of their involvement, it’s theorized that they did the opening animation and it’s certainly likely that they worked on several whole episodes.

We also know that Ikuhara was living in Los Angeles from 2001 to 2002 as a part of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs’ “Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists.”4 It’s not out of the realm of possibility — indeed, it’s easily possible — that the two became acquainted during that time since they were both in the same place and working in the animation industry.

Sounds good, right?

Well, not quite. We still have a few more things to work out. Like, for instance, why information that was revealed in 2013 is blowing up online now, six years later.

It all started with a tweet by Twitter user @ashuraou:5

When you have a combination of “too good to be true” reveal and a story about a public figure who’s already blowing up in the anime community with his latest work, Sarazamai, it’s only natural that anime/comic/media-focused news outlets pounce all over the story.

Read also:  What Was the Inspiration for the Dark Kingdom's Uniforms?

The only problem with this is that it’s wrong. Or at least so unbelievably unlikely that “false” is a far more likely answer than “true.”

I’ll save my political commentary for another time,6 but suffice to say that being first to print wins out over fact-checking pretty much every time.

That’s not to say that I’m entirely unsympathetic to the plight of these writers, of course. When you’re reporting on Japanese media, it’s really hard to get your hands on accurate information, especially if you don’t have a translator on staff or the language skills to do it yourself. The English Wikipedia pages on many Japanese icons are a sad shell of their Japanese counterparts with far less content and inaccuracies abound.

There’s also just enough information out there, such as the points I’ve outlined above, that makes this story believable. The story, that Director Ikuhara of Sailor Moon and Utena fame actually worked on Ninja Turtles is so amazing that you just want to believe it.

So in light of all that evidence, why am I so certain it’s wrong, you ask?

Glad you asked!

Director Ikuhara gives a speech at the Peking School of Foreign Languages (5/31/2010)

1) Ikuhara was not yet a part of TOEI Animation’s “A Team”

Joining TOEI Animation in 1986 after graduating from college in 1985, Ikuhara was put to work on Maple Town Stories as a production assistant (制作進行) and director’s assistant (演出助手). Not only was he still relatively new to the industry when Ninja Turtles aired, but you still need to account for the fact that the show, much like Rome, was not created in a day.

The relevant Ninja Turtles episode aired in the United States in late December 19877 as a block of five episodes, which means that a considerable lead time was needed in order to get the 110 minutes of animation ready for the US to dub the voices in and finalize. Of course, according to David Wise’s statements, we know that multiple studios worked on these episodes concurrently, but even then it would still take one to two months.

I don’t know about you, but I find it highly unlikely that a staff member with less than one and a half years’ experience in the industry is entrusted with directing an entire episode.

And speaking of which…

A collection of コンテ用紙 (storyboard sheets) by Director Ikuhara

A collection of コンテ用紙 (storyboard sheets) by Director Ikuhara

2) Ikuhara did not direct anything until 1990

The Japanese word 演出 (enshutsu; production, direction)8 can be difficult to translate because it can mean a wide variety of work in different industries. The exact work involved, in fact, can even change from one company to the next.

At TOEI Animation, the term is used to refer to the person who controls the overall direction and timing of the story using storyboards.9 “Director” is probably a fair term for this.

As a completely irrelevant aside, TOEI has a specific format that its directors are expected to abide by. Each page consists of six boxes on the left with space on the right. The director is intended to draw a rough sketch of what they want to happen in that scene in the box and a description on the right for the art director. Each of the boxes is meant to take up a designated amount of time in order to standardize the work process. Ikuhara was yelled at multiple times in his career for “wasting” too much time on certain scenes.

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Anyway, back to the point at hand, Ikuhara would not be given the opportunity to direct (演出) his own anime episode until episode 18 of Mōretsu Atarō, which debuted on August 18, 1990,10 over two and a half years after his supposed directorial debut on TOEI’s crack team of animators.

Yes, THIS is what Ikuhara was working on in 1987

Yes, THIS is what Ikuhara was working on in 1987

3) Ikuhara was already busy throughout 1987

In addition to the two main points raised above, it’s also worth noting that Ikuhara was likely already occupied throughout 1987 with his duties as a director’s assistant on New Maple Town Stories, which ran a total of 50 episodes from January through December.11

With such a tight schedule of nearly one episode a week, I find it hard to imagine that he also had time to take the directorial lead on a foreign property while continuing his normal work. Obviously being overworked is a very real issue in Japan, and especially in the animation industry, but it’s incredibly uncommon to see someone working on two series at the same time unless they’re high up enough that they aren’t involved in the day-to-day operations.

Well, what's the verdict?

Well, what’s the verdict?

So where does this leaves us?

It’s a bit of an odd place to be in: someone telling a first-hand account says specifically that Ikuhara worked on the episode in question, though the facts don’t support it. On the other side of the coin, I can’t absolutely prove that he didn’t work on the episode. But when we weigh the evidence (one man’s statement vs. another man’s documented career), I’d err on the side that this is not true, and that Kunihiko Ikuhara had no involvement in the Ninja Turtles cartoon.

What I think happened is that David Wise is recounting a personal anecdote to the best of his ability and memory, but that it was inaccurate. It could easily be the result of him mis-remembering the exact statement made over a dinner that happened 11 years prior, or it could have been a “lost in translation” moment where the two misunderstood each other.

It’s very easy for “I was a director at that company” to turn into “I directed that episode” either through a slip of the tongue or as your memory of a one-off comment fades.

Now that you have all the facts in front of you, what do you think is the case? Do you side with Mr. Wise’s statements, or do you think it was a misunderstanding? I’d love to hear your opinion down below!

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  1. …it probably is.
  2.  See timestamp 32:56 in Cowabunga Corner #121: David Wise Interview
  3.  See this circa 2003 TOEI Homepage capture of collaborated works
  4.  See Kunihiko Ikuhara (Wikipedia)
  5.  See this May 14, 2019 tweet by @ashuraou; “Fun fact: Every 80s kid probably remembers the 5 part #TMNT pilot which had the best animation of all 80s Turtles stuff; ‘Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X’ was especially good. Why? What people don’t know is that episode was (likely) directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. #TMNT35”
  6. Like the fifth of never — seriously, I really don’t like discussing politics
  7. See Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X (IMDB)
  8.  See 演出 (Jisho.org)
  9.  See （アニメの）演出さんがやる仕事は具体的になんなんでしょう？
  10.  See Mōretsu Atarō (Wikipedia)
  11.  See New Maple Town Stories (Wikipedia)

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  1. According to turtlepedia, the director was Yoshikatsu Kasai? I feel like the entire anecdote was a misinterpretation, I mean David didn’t even call out Ikuhara by name, and what with his sense of humor, I can completely see Iku making a joke on the side that was misinterpreted perhaps as being taken literally? Either way, your facts stand very well against this claim! I was very shook when reading that tweet this morning, let me tell you… and some of the visual similarities (the car! Wakaba!) are uncanny. Not sure WHAT to believe but I don’t doubt the lost in translation/iku’s sense of humor route, especially when direction is entirely accredited to someone else.

    • That’s really the greatest tragedy of this in my opinion — it’s robbing the real director of their proper accolades. =(
      It’s very likely that the episode was directed by Yoshikatsu Kasai, so it’s a real shame to watch the media rewriting this fact to credit someone else.

      • Uhhh you do realize that it is common for multiple people in the anime industry to use an existing person’s name as an alias especially for outsourced work by novice animators/directors like this, right? This is not all that different from the writers of Sunrise shows constantly going by the name “Hajime Yatate”, who is not and has never been one individual.

        The Kasai Yoshikatsu you’re thinking of is a completely different director who worked in the industry ten years before Ikuhara joined, and I would honestly believe the creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the director of those episodes who confirmed he directed those episodes over Turtlepedia or IMDb (which is fan-edited and barely regulated and fact-checked). Him using that as an alias during his early days at Toei is not impossible. and you don’t have any right to claim that it isn’t.

        • Judging by this and other comments, I seem to have hit a sore spot here. I’m sorry if I’ve upset you with this article. =(

          I agree with you that I can’t prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was not Ikuhara that directed the episode, though that’s simply because it’s not possible to prove a negative. Further, I openly admit (and address several times) that what I’ve written here is only circumstantial “evidence” at best.

          But this isn’t a court of law and no one is on trial. This is a blog meant to take a deeper look at the world of Sailor Moon and the people involved in its creation.
          People’s memories are faulty. Even Naoko Takeuchi has given multiple conflicting statements on the creation of Sailor Moon over the years.

          I’ve been wrong before, and will almost certainly be wrong again. =) It’s to the credit of observant readers like yourself that I’ve been able to address points where I’ve gotten things wrong.
          If there is any information out there that supports the “Ikuhara directed a TMNT episode” theory other than the single 2013 David Wise interview, I’d be more than happy to revise this article.

  2. Hi, I’m the person who tweeted this originally.

    -I’m not a writer, though I did fact check this as much as I possibly could. I’m not rushing for any fame. I just like to tweet fun and silly things. Hell, I tweeted something extremely stupid the other day about a new movie and that has like 20k retweets. This isn’t some kind of popularity contest for me, just a cool fact I realized listening to some interviews.

    -The only reason this came to light now is because I work 3 jobs and have insomnia and I was listening to a bunch of interviews. It’s the TMNT 35th anniversary and after a friend streamed the arcade game recently I’ve been on a kick.

    -I’ve never watched his new show; I don’t know anything about it. The last Ikuhara show I watched was Yuribears. I haven’t had the time. I only recently heard it was popular. Cool.

    -People have misread both my tweet and the ANN article. They both made it clear that we’re only talking about ONE EPISODE: ‘Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X.” Not all 5. It’s likely the other 4 had different true directors. Episode 3 was animated in Korea.

    -I’m fairly certain Ikuhara lived out here for longer than 2 years. If not, he would visit often. I’ve heard fun stories about his time in America from multiple friends in the industry and he seems to have stuck around a lot and made a lasting impression.

    -Toei likely did animation for all five episodes, but the full credits aren’t on any of the five episodes- Just two japanese names IIRC. Toei probably doled out each episode to a different team or subcontracted to studios for others. The third episode, for sure, went to a Korean studio, so who knows who actually directed them all. That’s probably why the credits are all so vague. What I do know is Fred Wolf had just come off of doing the first season of Ducktales, which also had a really big budget pilot animated by Toei.

    -It may be that Kasai was in charge, but merely oversaw the project. We’re at the mercy of whoever built the credits list for each episode, and the data they had was obviously from Japan.

    I work on producing the English versions of a lot of anime, and even today, Japan does not provide a full list of credits most of the time. It’s 99% of the time the bare minimum. We have to do research to properly credit most people. Back in the 80s, it was less likely that they sent full lists of credits to US shows, and just who was important to credit. Like execs and producers.

    All of these shows were animated overseas and how many Japanese names are on them? I think like two.

    Further, it could be that Kasai is an alias used by the studio for projects not all done by one person, similar to the Hajime Yatate situation. I was not able to find much info on Kasai beyond his credits.

    -It’s obvious that Wise is talking about Ikuhara. There is no reason for Wise to lie about this; him saying this does not benefit him much in the long run. In fact, this video was from 2013… so he can’t be capitalizing on Ikuhara’s newest success. Further, by the time they likely met, Ikuhara was already a director and famous enough as it was, so he really had no reason to lie to Wise either.

    -I think there’s a pretty big fallacy in your logic in saying he wouldn’t have time. If you don’t think he could work on multiple projects at once, I think you do not understand how production works. Of not just anime but anything. Especially in an industry known for overworking and overburdening its employees.

    -While Wise says the “A-Team” did it, it’s also possible that it /was/ a “B-Team”, and whoever was on this particular team really wanted to impress. So they went the extra mile. If this was early direction by Ikuhara this would make sense. Maybe he was trying to show off how good he was.

    • Thank you for stopping by the add your feedback on this. I won’t be able to address every point, but I will provide a few comments:

      1) If it sounded like I insinuated that you were riding some sort of popularity wave, I didn’t mean it that way. My commentary was directed at news sites, not toward you. Twitter is for fun, random commentary and (I hope) everyone takes what’s written with a grain of salt.

      2) The biggest sticking point for me is that there is literally no proof that he worked on it other than the one David Wise comment in 2013. As I mentioned multiple times, I cannot prove that Ikuhara didn’t work on it, but the evidence definitely doesn’t look good in my opinion. However, the burden of proof goes both ways. Aside from the 2013 comment, I’ve yet to see any other evidence proving the affirmative.

      -It’s obvious that Wise is talking about Ikuhara. There is no reason for Wise to lie about this; him saying this does not benefit him much in the long run.

      3) I never said that Wise was lying, nor that was he capitalizing on Ikuhara’s fame. I said that he may have misremembered, or there may have been a language mixup. Indeed, if we go on to say that Wise was wrong about the A-Team, is it not possible that Wise was wrong about Ikuhara’s specific role? I.e., that he was simply a director at TOEI, or maybe that he had some other, small part that Wise interpreted as directing.

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Life with autism

Autism overlooked

Way too often autism is overlooked by doctors, therapists and psychologists. Even though it’s possible to already diagnose autism in children, a lot of autistic people first get their diagnosis as adults. The same thing happened to me. I was 22, when I got diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome in 2017.

Autism in females
Especially girls and women can be extremely good at masking their symptoms. The first thing, I mostly hear, when I tell, that I am autistic, is: You don’t look autistic. Or: You must be really high functioning. But that’s because I really try to fit into society all the time. I’ve learned, what people expect of me and that’s how I behave now. And that’s the big difference between autistic and non-autistic people. Non-autistic people apparently know all social rules by heart, whereas autistic people have to learn everything from scratch.

Autism spectrum disorder vs. Aspergers
Is it called autism spectrum disorder or Aspergers? My blog is called “autism overlooked” and I mostly write about autism (spectrum disorder), but I do occasionally mention Aspergers as my diagnosis. Here’s the reason why: I am currently living in Denmark and there we use the term Aspergers. So my official diagnosis is Aspergers syndrome. But I know there are many (especially English speaking) countries that use the term autism spectrum disorder. That’s why I mostly write about autism.

German, Danish, English
I first started to write about my autism online in 2017. I was born and raised in Germany but moved to Denmark in 2014. That’s why I originally only had a German and Danish blog. But I got so much feedback that I thought it would be great to reach even more people. So I started to write in English as well.

My goal
I was diagnosed at the age of 22. That’s late but there are many people who are even older, when they get their diagnosis. The main reason why I started this blog is to spread awareness so that such late diagnoses can be avoided. A lot of autistic people struggle with mental health issues anyway, so an early diagnosis is really important.


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This policy document sets out 10 core principles to guide International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)’s support for clients in environment and natural resource management (ENRM). The principles include both the core issues to be addressed and suggested approaches. In summary, IFAD will: 1) scale up multiple benefit landscape approaches; 2) strengthen governance of natural assets; 3) promote valuation of the national environment; 4) build smallholder resilience; 5) promote green innovative financing; 6) promote a climate smart IFAD; 7) promote value chains to drive green growth; 8) promote gender and indigenous peoples; 9) promote livelihood diversification; 10) reduce IFAD’s environmental footprint.

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Type of material: Policy Document

Publication date: 2011

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