On Fri, 15 May 1998 16:18:01 -0400, Jon Farber <sabreb@erols.com> wrote:

Hrm...  Just read that it is official.  Neil Gaiman, creator of such 
popular occult series as 'Neverwhere', 'Sandman', 'Death', and 'Books of 
Magic', has been commisioned by Miramax (Agent of the Evil Disney 
Empire) to write the English dub script for Mononoke Hime.

Article here:
http://www.miramax.com:8888/mm_front/owa/news.newsBody#news_681

Actually, this is very misleading.  Gaiman is _not_ writing the script, he
is merely working on an existing translation - cleaning up the literal
japanese-english translation into something that can be understood by the
average english-speaker.

For more info, check out the Miyazaki mailing list, or the unofficial
Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli page at http://www.nausicaa.net/.