Studio Ghibli
| Name: | Studio Ghibli |
| Date(s): | founded 15 June 1985 |
| Profit/Nonprofit: | Profit |
| Country based in: | Japan |
| Focus: | Animated Movies |
| External Links: | Ghibli Official Website |
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Studio Ghibli, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社スタジオジブリ, Romanji: Kabushiki-gaisha Sutajio Jiburi) is a Japanese animation film studio based in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.[1] Directed by the famous Hayao Miyazaki, the studio is best known for its anime feature films, and has also produced several short films, television commercials, and one television film.
Ghibli films are also known as "Miyazaki films", after esteemed director Miyazaki Hayao, though Miyazaki Hayao is not the director of every Ghibli production.
Films
Some of Ghibli's notable films:
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Castle in the Sky
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (released before the studio's official founding)
- Princess Mononoke
- Spirited Away
- The Wind Rises
- Whisper of the Heart
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Only Yesterday
- The Cat Returns
- Tales from Earthsea
- From Up on Poppy Hill
- Arrietty
- When Marnie Was There
- Ponyo
- Howl's Moving Castle
Fandom
Unlike many other animated films made in the anime style, Studio Ghibli films are massively popular in western media. Disney at one time held the distribution rights to Ghibli films in America[2] and facilitated the English dubs. Spirited Away has won an Oscar for best animated feature in 2002. Fandom is very much the same - even people who are not fans of anime enjoy and make fanworks of Ghibli films. In particular, My Neighbour Totoro is extremely well known.
There are many ways that Studio Ghibli influences fandoms - and not just its own. In My Neighbour Totoro, there is a scene where the two main characters stand at a bus stop next to Totoro.[3] This scene is famous and fanworks are made constantly featuring characters from other works.[4] Aside from this, it is very popular in general to draw crossovers of characters into Ghibli films.[5]
Many fans point to Ghibli films as examples of storytelling that center Strong Female Characters—that is, female protagonists and deuteragonists who have agency and compelling character arcs.
Another popular Ghibli fanwork is 'Ponyo loves revolution' by middlefish. It was made in February 2014 and the first known crossover was of Steven Universe, made by alice-lexxen on tumblr.[6] Redraws are very popular to this day although popularity peaked in september 2016.[7]
A hot topic in the anime and Ghibli fandom is which Ghibli films are the best.[8] There are countless lists attempting to rank them but nobody has come to a unified agreement - these articles can even cause fandom wank when people strongly disagree.
Popular forms of fanworks include:
- gifsets from movies, especially scenes featuring food
- screencap redraws
- fanart
- knitted, sewn or felted versions of Totoro and other simplistically shaped characters
Fan works
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Meta
Fan art
elderly ghibli ladies by mohtz (2021)
- An exhibition of dioramas inspired by Studio Ghibli movies was held today in Japan., Archived version by the Miyazaki Mecha Modelers Club(website). Video of the exhibition by @@sayabu__, posted 13 November 2022.
Resources
- Studio Ghibli on myanimelist
- Online Ghibli, a guide to Ghibli films
- Studio Ghibli Wiki
- GhibliWikiArchived
References
- ^ More - Ghibli Website
- ^ Studio Ghibli - Anime: A Global Phenomenon
- ^ My Neighbour Totoro - Studio Ghibli Retrospective
- ^ Neighbour... Totoro? - Fanworks
- ^ Overwatch + Spirited Away crossover - Pinterest
- ^ Ponyo loves revolution - know your meme
- ^ Ponyo loves revolution - google trends
- ^ The movies of studio Ghibli ranked from worst to best - filmschoolrejects