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Not too long ago, we passed along word that one of developer Level5's 10th anniversary projects was a DS collaboration with legendary anime house Studio Ghibli. Unfortunately, such a titillating announcement was only accompanied with a small image from the title, leaving everyone wondering what …Read more »
While there's no need to waste precious space talking about Ghibli—you all know them very well—Level-5 may be a bit less familiar to those that didn't spend dozens of hours with the independent developer's Dragon Quest VIII or, to take it back a little bit, …Read more »
Japanese website Nikkei Waga Maga recently posted several interview segments with Studio Ghibli president Kouji Hoshino. After talking at length about how director Hayao Miyazaki's near life-threatening devotion to his work, Hoshino mentions that Goro Miyazaki is also working on a new Ghibli animation, as …Read more »
Tales of tiny people living underfoot have inspired us for centuries. From legends of pixies to the 1952 novel The Borrowers, we have a long history of such legends. Studio Ghibli’s 2010 film The Secret World of Arrietty shows the worldwide love of such lore. And …Read more »
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle hit the Japanese box office on July 18, and it’s already one of the top 10 earners of all time in Japan’s theaters. Previously, there was one live-action Japanese movie in the top 10, Bayside Shakedown 2. Now that …Read more »
Aichi Nagoya International Animation Film Festival (ANIAFF), the new animation film festival launching this year in Nagoya, will feature a retrospective centered around director Mamoru Hosoda, it was announced today. The section, titled Director Focus, will feature several films by the director, including The Girl …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki is the only anime director to win an Academy Award — twice. And now he’s about to get his second exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. While the previous exhibit did a full view on Miyazaki’s work, this exhibit will concentrate …Read more »
The Leviathan anime dropped its first trailer in September 2024, and now it’s revealed that it will officially debut on Netflix on July 10. Orange, the anime studio taking care of the animation, shared this news along with this new visual: It will not be …Read more »
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (a.k.a. METI) is a section of the Japanese government, and it recently said that using generative AI in the wrong ways could run afoul of the country’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act. Namely, METI pointed out how using generative …Read more »
Following an earlier home video release from GKIDS, Hayao Miyazaki’s classic Future Boy Conan TV anime now has a streaming home. The series will make its debut exclusively on RetroCrush starting on April 18. After that, more episodes are set to drop every Friday. If …Read more »
OpenAI’s GPT-4o generative AI model is being described as its “most advanced image generator yet” by the company, and making Studio Ghibli-style AI images took off in recent days. OpenAI wrote, “We added a refusal which triggers when a user attempts to generate an image …Read more »
As part of its events marking the 40th anniversary of Studio Ghibli, distributor GKIDS is bringing 1997’s Princess Mononoke to the big screen in America and Canada. The movie, which has a new 4K restoration, will exclusively hit IMAX theaters on March 26. GKIDS explained, …Read more »
Chinese scientists recently found a new variant of deepwater tilefish, and it’s been officially dubbed Branchiostegus sanae in honor of Princess Mononoke character San. This is because the fish has markings on its face that look reminiscent San’s face paint. There’s deeper meaning, too. Deepwater …Read more »
Following up on the initial announcement from back in June 2023, a premiere window has been set for the anime adaptation of Machiko Kyo’s award-winning World War II manga cocoon. The main cast and staff has been revealed along with plans for a late March …Read more »
Studio Ghibli is here to help couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, and it’s also here to help with the upcoming sakura season. Each spring people in Japan have customs around viewing the beautiful but short-lived cherry blossoms known there as sakura. And Totoro from Ghibli’s iconic …Read more »
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