{"id":14901,"date":"2009-03-02T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=14901"},"modified":"2009-03-02T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T23:00:30","slug":"ask-john-is-there-a-burmese-harp-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-is-there-a-burmese-harp-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Is There a Burmese Harp Anime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ask-john-is-there-a-burmese-harp-anime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ask-john-is-there-a-burmese-harp-anime.jpg\" alt=\"Ask John: Is There a Burmese Harp Anime?\" title=\"Ask John: Is There a Burmese Harp Anime?\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14917\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen will there be an anime version of the movie The Burmese Harp?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Harp of Burma (Burma no Tategoto), author Michio Takeyama&#8217;s elegaic story about the aftermath of World War II, was originally serialized in the Akatombo children&#8217;s magazine in 1947 and 1948. The chapters were collected and published as a novel in October 1948. In 1956 director Kon Ichikawa adapted the award winning novel into a now classic feature film that earned a 1957 Academy Award nomination. The story was animated as episodes 25 &amp; 26 of the 35 episode 1986 Seishun Anime Zenshu (Adolescent Anime Complete Works) television series. Central Park Media initially released both episodes of the Harp of Burma anime adaptation on a subtitled VHS tape in 1994 as the second volume of its &#8220;Animated Classics of Japanese Literature&#8221; series. CPM re-released the two episodes on DVD on February 11, 2003. Although this DVD is now out of print, it is still available for purchase very inexpensively.<\/p>\n<p>There have been numerous anime set during or directly following WWII, including well known productions like Graveyard of Fireflies and Barefoot Gen, along with relatively forgotten works including Tsushimamaru ~Sayonara Okinawa~ (1982), Hi no Ame ga Furu (1988), and Anime Ningen Kakumei (1995). The fact that the current Hetalia ~Axis Powers~ takes a lighthearted look at WWII era world politics signifies that the war remains a fruitful subject for anime. So while there already has been one anime adaptation of The Harp of Burma, there&#8217;s no telling when or if there will be another anime adaptation sometime in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: When will there be an anime version of the movie The Burmese Harp?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14918,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions\/14918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}