6 results for "Studio Ghibli"
Hayao Miyazaki has retired three times and returned each time with a new film. The studio he built with Isao Takahata is the only animation studio in the world whose name alone is sufficient to guarantee an audience.
20 days ago
Isao Takahata co-founded Studio Ghibli with Miyazaki but pursued a completely different artistic vision. His Grave of the Fireflies is the most emotionally devastating animated film ever made. His other films are among the most formally inventive.
3 months ago
The music of Yoko Kanno, Hiroyuki Sawano, and Joe Hisaishi is as essential to anime's identity as its visual language. Here's the history of anime music composition and the figures who shaped it.
about 1 month ago
Doraemon has been Japan's most recognized fictional character for fifty years. His story — a robotic cat from the future helping a failing child — contains a quiet utopian vision that has shaped how generations of Japanese children understand kindness and aspiration.
about 2 months ago
Leiji Matsumoto's Space Battleship Yamato and Galaxy Express 999 didn't just invent anime space opera. They demonstrated that animation could carry genuine emotional weight, and they saved the Japanese animation industry at a moment when it was nearly bankrupt.
about 2 months ago
Anime tourism — traveling to real-world locations depicted in anime — is a significant and growing segment of Japanese tourism. Here's why fans make the journeys, what they find when they get there, and how the industry has responded.
2 months ago