From page to screen: our top five anime based on novels
There’s nothing quite so transportative as getting lost in a good book. Whisked away to a land of magic and intrigue, shadows and subterfuge or sheer heart-hammering [...]
Studio Ghibli
Review: Okko’s Inn
Okko’s Inn is the everyday tale of a girl who stares trauma in its ghoulish face and rises above it all to make her life mean something. I’m sorry, did I say everyday? [...]
Darkly dreaming: the legacy of Isao Takahata
Studio Ghibli has been a powerful part of both of our lives as otaku, inspiring nightmares, empowerment and the hope that we can each be heroes in our own way. It’s safe to [...]
Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin and anime’s quest into western fantasy
Western fantasy and sci-fi literature has long proven influential for anime, and an early example, shortly after the glamour of Howl’s Moving Castle, was the less [...]
Miyazaki slates first anime work since The Wind Rises
While we’re jumpy as a bunch of soot sprites waiting for Hayao Miyazaki’s upcoming feature film, his newest short for the Ghibli Museum at least seems well underway. [...]
Miyazaki’s new movie is “action-adventure fantasy”
Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki has described Hayao Miyazaki’s upcoming film as a hand-drawn “action-adventure fantasy” in a recent letter. Miyazaki himself [...]
Update: Hayao Miyazaki may already be producing new feature film
After The Wind Rises was released in 2013, Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement, at least from feature films. He said he would still be working on the Ghibli Museum [...]
Oscars nominate The Red Turtle for Best Animated Feature
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the 2017 Oscar Awards yesterday. But, while we hate to be the bearers of bad news for everyone [...]
Our only hope: anime’s most inspiring princesses
We were both left stunned and saddened by Carrie Fisher’s death in December. It seemed she was gone before we really had a chance to appreciate all the hope and joy she [...]
Ghibli’s Ronja the Robber’s Daughter coming to Amazon Prime
Studio Ghibli’s first TV show Ronja the Robber‘s Daughter is on its way to Amazon this month, both in the US and, for the first time ever, in the UK. Amazon [...]
