Danica Davidson
January 28, 2025 
Ghibli Park is getting a new exhibit, and this one is quite personal to Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki: it’s the Citroën 2CV car he’s used for most of his adult life.
Miyazaki got the car decades ago as a way to get his baby from home to nursery school and vice versa. He’d never gotten a car before. The car came to be closely associated with him, and he helped that happen by, for example, including the model in his movie Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. His son Goro paid homage to the vehicle in Earwig and the Witch, giving that Citroën 2CV a license plate that reads MYZ as a reference to the family’s surname.
Miyazaki is now an octogenarian, and he decided to no longer drive. But he didn’t want his vehicle to just go away. He got the idea in his head that it would be a fun fixture at Ghibli Park, and Goro is making that happen. The car will begin its exhibit there tomorrow, January 29.
Miyazaki’s most recent movie, The Boy and the Heron, has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award. GKIDS licensed the movie and gave this description for it:
The Boy and the Heron Plot
After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito’s new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself. Featuring the voices of Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh.
The Boy and the Heron is the new critically-acclaimed fantasy adventure from the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and My Neighbor Totoro. Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature film in 10 years is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Academy Award® -winning director. Produced by Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki, the film features a musical score from Miyazaki’s long-time collaborator Joe Hisaishi. The theme song for the film “Spinning Globe” was penned and performed by global J-pop superstar Kenshi Yonezu.
Source: SoraNews24
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
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