Studio Ghibli

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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:

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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Fan art

Resources

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