#hayao-miyazaki — Public Fediverse posts
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The latest stop of "Mundo Pixar Experience" brings full-scale recreations of beloved films to Japan, where Pixar's creative debt to animation giant Hayao Miyazaki has long been well-documented. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/05/15/film/mundo-pixar-experience/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #pixar #hayaomiyazaki #animation
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Soso, Xi hat mit Trump also *Howl's Moving Castle* gespielt.
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Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) – Review
By the end of the 80s, Studio Ghibli was cooking, creatively speaking, but was still finding it tough to get the appropriate amount of traction at the box office. While disscussing something as crass as money when dealing with the type of creative alchemy that have given audiences back to back movies that casually enriched the soul, the simple fact of the matter is, Ghibli was still in its relative infancy and anime had yet to make that relentless, worldwide breakout that still wouldn’t occur for a few couple of years yet. However, with Kiki’s Delivery Service, the studio would finally enjoy financial success to go with the fact that in under a decade, they’d been doling out straight-up masterpieces while other animation houses (cough * Disney * cough) had noticably struggled during the decade.
Let’s not forget that Ghibli released both My Neighbour Totoro and Grave Of The Fireflies in the same year, a feat that showed the emotional dexterity of filmmakers who delivered polar opposite assaults on our emotional well-being. But what did it take to help the house of Totoro get flush? Nothing much, just a thirteen year-old witch and a flying broom.In a world where witches live alongside humans in harmony despite being relatively rare, we meet Kiki, a thirteen year-old girl who decides its time for her to attempt the tradition all witches her age must do – leave home and live an independent life for a year. While that seems a little much to ask any child, Kiki not only is kind and resourceful, but she has the ability to soar through the sky on her broom and has Jiji, her feline familiar, to keep her company. However, after leaving home she soon encounters a number of minor obstacles such as another, pretentious witch and a rain storm that causes her to first drift off course and then take refuge in a box car until the rain chooses to relent.
However, upon waking up, Kiki finds that she and Jiji have arrived in the city of Koriko and decides to stay and try to make a life for herself – but while she’s enamored of the view of the ocean that she has, her small town upbringing leaves her unprepared for how tough life and lonely can be in a bustling city. Still, the plucky child manages to find a place to live with a kindly woman and her husband who own a bakery and so figures out how to channel her paranormal talents into a form of self employment.
Using her talents of flying on her broomstick, Kiki starts up her own small scale delivery service as she can simply zip across the sky with a parcel and drop it off at it’s destination in no time at all. However, despite the kindness of a lot of her early customers and the constant attention of a local boy named Tombo, Kiki soon finds that forging a life in a big city can be fairly trying and as isolation and depression sets in, she finds that some of her witchy gifts are starting to leave her as the day to day pressures take their toll.The irony of Ghibli’s first financially successful film being about a thirteen year-old going out and starting her own business isn’t lost on me, but there was always a danger that anything that attempted to follow Isao Takahata’s emotion-flaying Grave Of The Fireflies was going to come across as unbelievably twee – after all, the lethally sad wartime drama had been repeatedly hailed as one of the greatest animated movies ever made and proved to be an unforgettable experience. However, the magic of Hayao Miyazaki is that he’s able to benevolently weaponise things that are ridiculously nice in ways that make even the most basic plots warm your heart. For example, on the surface, My Neighbour Totoro wasn’t really about anything really and just followed the lives of two young girls who were excited about moving house and casually had low-energy adventures with a burly, sleepy forest spirit. And yet, despite having no antagonist, no jokes and no action sequences to speak of, Miyazaki turned such unassuming touch points into genuine chicken soup for the soul.
Well, with Kiki’s Delivery Service pulls off the same trick by adapting Eiko Kadono’s novel into yet another beguiling fantasy that, technically speaking, doesn’t fall back on the majority of animated tropes popular at the time. Once again, Miyazaki shrewdly tells another tale that not only proves that he accurately can put himself (and the viewer) in the shoes of a prepubescent girl encountering the world for the first time, but he impressively doesn’t make it creepy either. On top of this, the movie scatters numerous instances about the film that sees a lot of good advice and protection offered to Kiki by an arry of vastly different, but all equally strong women. From Osono the baker generously giving our heroine a place to stay, to the kindly old women who call Kiki to deliver pies baked with pure love to ungrateful grandchildren on their birthdays, to her encounter with jean-short wearing artist, Ursula who lives in the nearby forest, the young witch is given countless life advice by strong mature women to counteract the rather cold and vapid reaction she gets from girls her own age.Once again, detailing how rich and glorious the animation is is now starting to feel somewhat redundant, but I’ll still say that no one in animation can animate grass blowing on a strong breeze quite like the hard working scribblers who work under the Ghibli umbrella – and if that looks good, imagine how good the flying stuff looks. Yep, Miyazaki’s documented weakness for all things that fly gets yet another outing, although its amusing that for all the high flying heroines that’s populated his films, Kiki has moments where her broom flying is actually quite ungainly due to external forces or the fact that has to improvise at one moment with a brush.
But for all the dazzling wonder and memorable characters (Jiji the sassy cat is effortlessly the movie’s MVP), once again it’s those deftly buried life lessons that hit the hardest and while Kiki finds that the confidence sapping effects of modern life is draining her powers as depression set in, it’s remarkable that Miyazaki’s simple message of being true to yourself is delivered so organically when other animation houses would probably base an entire six minute musical number about it. Most remarkable of all is the fact that I would argue that Kiki’s Delivery Service actually does low-key fantasy and growing pains even better than My Neighbour Totoro did and while that final rescue sequence seems a little tacked on compared to how organic Ghibli usually is, it makes the likes of Sabrina The Teenage Witch look like purest trash in comparison.Zipping out from under the emotional heft of Grave Of The Fireflies with yet another delightful flight of fancy, Kiki’s Delivery Service not only cemented Ghibli’s standing at the box office, but delivered yet another overwhelmingly warm cinematic endevor to boot. While the titular witch may not have too many spells of her own, her movie spins more than enough magic to compensate.
#1980s #1989 #Fantasy #Animation #Anime #Japan #FilmReview #StudioGhibli #HayaoMiyazaki #KikiSDeliveryService #MinamiTakayama #ReiSakuma #KappeiYamaguchi #KeikoToda
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A proposito di #PorcoRosso, una delle cose piú tenere è vedere i piccoli errori di italiano nei testi disegnati, che sono evidentemente quelli originali, e sono per lo piú corretti, tranne qualche piccola concordanza qui e là (ma per poterli apprezzare in genere serve un fermo immagine, tranne per i piú vistosi, tipo il NON SI FO CREDITO nel cartello dietro la testa di Piccolo senior mentre conta i soldi di Porco per il nuovo aereo).
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Che film straordinario.
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“Meglio maiale che fascista”. “Porco Rosso” e quei legami che nessun fascismo spezza. Il capolavoro di #HayaoMiyazaki è il film giusto, ora e sempre, da vedere il #25aprile - MOW - Mowmag.com https://mowmag.com/culture/-porco-rosso-e-quei-legami-che-nessun-fascismo-spezza-il-capolavoro-di-hayao-miyazaki-e-il-film-giusto-ora-e-sempre-da-vedere-il-25-aprile
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #HayaoMiyazaki #StudioGhibli #Fantasy Hayao Miyazaki's First Studio Ghibli Project Since 2023 Gets First Images http://dlvr.it/TRcK07
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CW: Movies
About to go see Kiki’s Delivery Service in IMAX 4K and my inner child is beyond excited! 🧹🐈⬛🥨
#Miyazaki #KikisDeliveryService #Movies #HayaoMiyazaki #AMCTheaters #HoosierMast #Anime
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Fantastik im Feuilleton
Die neue vierbändige Nausicaä-Gesamtausgabe bei Carlsen, vorgestellt im Tazblog
https://blogs.taz.de/comicblog/2026/03/02/tausend-oekologien/
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‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ Gets Lavish $650, Leather-Bound Release For Book’s 40th Anniversary
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Celebrate the art of Studio Ghibli, the beloved Japanese animation film studio, with this extensive collection of 100 full-color postcards. On sale now: amzn.to/4pNjt60 #Anime #Movies #TV #Art #Postcards #StudioGhibli #HayaoMiyazaki #Artist #Retro #Collectibles #Books #AnimeSky #BookSky #PromoSky
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“Il ragazzo e l’airone” di Hayao Miyazaki è disponibile in streaming su RaiPlay
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:arigatou: :kodama: :soot_sprite: :totoro: :hearts: #HayaoMiyazaki #anime #art #Miyazaki 🫶🏼
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#StudioGhibli and #Solarpunk - The environmental and humanist themes of the famous #Anime studio
by Mia Milne, Jan 11, 2025
"This past summer, I watched most of Studio Ghibli’s films. The studio or it’s main creative force, #HayaoMiyazaki, are often mentioned as major influences on the solarpunk genre. It’s not a coincidence that one of their composers did the music for the solarpunk-inspired yogurt ad. Despite how connected Studio Ghibli seems to be to solarpunk, I found that only two of their 20+ movies have substantial solarpunk imagery or worldbuilding. Even so, it’s clear that these films were highly influential even if they’re weren’t solarpunk films. The influence comes from Studio Ghibli’s constant themes of environmentalism, humanism, community, anti-authoritarianism, and pacifism."
Read more:
https://solarthoughts.substack.com/p/studio-ghibli-and-solarpunk#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunkArt #Anime #AntiAuthoritarianism #Environmentalism #WorldBuilding #Nausicaä #CastleInTheSky
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Semaine spéciale Hayao Miyazaki ! Venez, aujourd'hui on parle du Garçon et du Héron !
Qui l'a vu ?
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Semaine spéciale Hayao Miyazaki -3 !
Venez, on parle de Princesse Mononoké...
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RE: https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/12/16/it-took-me-a-while-to-understand-hayao/
Disney corporate investing a billion dollars into OpenAI got me to finish this and post it. Arguably, for companies this size, a billion is just a token - which in and of itself is obscene - but you can't even throw in a token without spitting on your own artists, and that's what Disney's done.
I thought about trying to work that into this piece, but I didn't come up with a way to do it that preserved the flow of the essay, so I'm putting it in the quoot instead.
#ai #art #disney #facebook #meta #slop #contempt #HatredOfArtists #HayaoMiyazaki #miyazaki #ads
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New Read - Shuna's Journey
Shuna's Journey is a 1983 manga written by Hayao Miyazaki inspired by the Tibetan folktale "The Prince Who Turned into a Dog." This story follows a prince who is looking for grain to save his people and the hardships he faces along the way.
It's well done. Miyazaki writes the entire story out while simultaneously presenting the gorgeous artwork with aesthetics inspired by traditional Tibetan imagery.
It's a great take on a folktale.
Also, interestingly, the original Japanese release date is two weeks before my literal birth date. So, that's fun.
#Manga #MangaCollector #MangaReview #Mangagram #MangaCommunity #MangaPost #MangaRecommendation #InstaManga #MangaLover #MangaReader #AmReading #Bookstodon #HayaoMiyazaki #MiyazakiHayao #ShunasJourney
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Mä tahtoisin katsoa Studio Ghiblin elokuvia: Naapurini Totoro, Prinsessa Mononoke, Henkien Kätkemä, Liikkuva Linna..... Ahh ❤️ ne on niin upeita!!