Please Make Them Stop Making Anime Shows About Cute Sea Creatures!
Don’t get me wrong Hayao Miyazaki is a genius, but the theme song from Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea made me want to scream after a while! But sadly the success of this film has encouraged TMS to turn...
View ArticleMiyazaki’s Fish Story: A First Look at the Disney Release of Ponyo
Everyone’s had that tingling feeling running (as they say) up and down one’s spine when they experience something awesome. Last night I saw a preview of Hayao Miyazaki’s new film Ponyo — and the...
View ArticlePonyo: The Voice Acting Sounds Quite Promising!
We already know that Ponyo is going to be a great film — but the real question is if Disney would mess up the voice acting? I always hate when Hollywood studios favor screen actors over good old...
View ArticleIf Miyazaki Did a Film Starring Bender
As a Futurama and anime fanboy I just loved this fan illustration! The illustration is from the French website bouletcorp.com.
View ArticleEleven Yummy Reasons to Love Totoro
Only children are supposed to be able to see Totoro, Miyazaki’s friendly furry forest spirit, but it looks like exceptions are made when he’s crafted of fondant. Carolyn Lengel made these adorable...
View ArticleA Look at Ghibli’s Poppy Hill
The latest collaboration between Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli might lack the touch of fantasy or adventure we usually associate with their films, but that won’t keep us from appreciating the...
View ArticleTitles for New Ghibli Films, GKIDS Grabs Grave of the Fireflies
Things have been quiet on the Studio Ghibli front, with Up On Poppy Hill out and all. We’ve known that Isao Takahata has been working on an adaption of the folk story The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, but...
View ArticleMiyazaki’s Kaze Tachinu and Takahata’s Kaguya-hime no Monogatari Revealed
Been wondering what the Ghibli folks are up to? We had heard inklings from the domain names register earlier and Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata’s comments over the past few years, but now we have...
View ArticleMiyazaki’s Next Film, The Wind Rises, Looks Stunning
Though Ghibli has put out two films in the past few years, but while both were written by Hayao Miyazaki, neither were directed by him. His first film since 2008’s Ponyo is Kaze Tachinu, or The Wind...
View ArticleGhibli Updates: Kaguya-hime no Monogatari Images and The Wind Rises Subtitled...
There’s a lot of Ghibli goodness in the pipeline. The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature film, is already out in Japan and doing well, but we’re only just now getting a subtitled trailer for...
View ArticleHayao Miyazaki to Retire from Feature-Length Directing
At the Venice Film Festival, Studio Ghibli’s president Hoshino Koji officially announced some sad news: Hayao Miyazaki will be retiring. It was implied that Miyazaki would stick around at Ghibli to...
View ArticleDisney Is Actually Releasing The Wind Rises, And Here’s The Trailer
I know that Disney had previously said that it would release The Wind Rises in select North American theaters on February 21, 2014 (with a wider release on February 28 and an Academy Awards-qualifying...
View ArticleCheck Out The Simpson’s Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki
You know, a lot of people pick on The Simpsons nowadays, but when they put their heads together and do a tribute in reference to something, they really do it well. The latest tribute features Homer...
View ArticleMiyazaki and More Nominated in the 86th Academy Awards
Many folks wondered if Hayao Miyazaki’s film film, The Wind Rises, would get nominated for Best Animated Feature Film. Well, the noms came out and surprise, surprise, it’s on the list. It’s in the...
View ArticleGKIDS Will Bring Studio Ghibli Documentary to US
Good news, Studio Ghibli fans! The documentary about the famous Japanese animation studio, “The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness,” will be getting a theatrical release here in the US thanks to GKIDS. The...
View ArticleStudio Ghibli May Halt Production Of New Films
No, Ghibli is not dead. However, it appears that When Marnie Was There could be the final film animated in-house at Studio Ghibli — at least for the immediate future — if a planned restructuring...
View ArticleNew Trailer For The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
He means it! The upcoming documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness will be particularly compelling due to Hayao Miyazaki’s recent retirement, as it goes in-depth about the making of The Wind Rises...
View ArticleSpirited Away Finally Coming To Blu-ray In North America
Ever since the first Studio Ghibli movie came out on Blu-ray, I’ve been waiting for Spirited Away to come out. It’s only been available on DVD since its US release in 2003, while it’s been available on...
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