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12 [[caption-width-right:350:The kingdom of dreams and madness.]]
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15-> ''"I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze, and inspire their listeners."''
16-->-- '''Creator/HayaoMiyazaki'''
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18[[https://www.ghibli.jp Studio Ghibli Inc.]] (スタジオ・ジブリ; pronounced "DJIBB-[-lee-]")[[note]] sort-of named after the Caproni Ca.309 ''Ghibli'' fighter[[/note]] was founded on June 15, 1985 by celebrated Japanese {{anime}} directors Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Creator/IsaoTakahata, along with producer Toshio Suzuki and publisher Yasuyoshi Tokuma, in the wake of Miyazaki's overwhelming success with ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''. Studio Ghibli is known for its incredibly rich and detailed animation, exacting attention to detail, SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic (mostly but not entirely by composer Music/JoeHisaishi), and imaginative plots (frequently involving flying scenes, a personal favourite of Miyazaki's).
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20Ghibli has been rated as the top brand in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, and is a household name even among non-{{otaku}}. New Ghibli films are consistently the top grossers for the year in Japanese cinemas, the Miyazaki films are well known and revered in France (they were by and large unaffected by a local backlash to MediaNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion in TheNineties) and some films such as ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' and ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'' have gained a mainstream following in North America (in part thanks to a distribution deal with Creator/{{Disney}}; more on that below). The studio tends to focus on films rather than television series, but it is frequently the "[[GatewaySeries gateway drug]]" for new {{anime}} fans. Ghibli is also like Disney in that Ghibli maintains their animation staff as full-time employees instead of the typical Japanese practice of employing freelance artists paid on a piecework basis, and Miyazaki has stated that this was intended to improve his animators' standard of living as much as the quality and consistency of their work. [[EpicMovie Their movies also tend to be much longer than the typical animated film as well]]: while most in the industry don't even crack 90 minutes due to the expense involved with making them, Ghibli's can go well over the 100-minute mark, and their films are among the longest in the history of animation, with six of them having a runtime of over two hours.
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22Because of this ethos, though, Ghibli became infamous for its exorbitantly high overhead costs-- almost on par with American animation studios.[[note]] Anime, even feature films, typically has a budget of less than half of a Hollywood animated film's.[[/note]] This, plus a few other factors, all led to the Studio's downfall during TheNewTens… which will be explained more fully towards the bottom of this page.
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24Miyazaki has said that he chose the name of a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Italian fighter for his studio based on his love of aviation and UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} (vis. ''Anime/PorcoRosso''). Unfortunately, the wrong characters were chosen to represent "Ghibli" in Japanese based on a mispronunciation[[note]] (as you can see in their logo at the top of this page, they use the kana 「ジブリ」-- "DJEE-blee"-- but based on the Italian pronunciation, it should be 「ギブリ」-- "GHEE-blee")[[/note]], and Miyazaki didn't discover this until after he'd already named the studio. He has since proclaimed himself satisfied with the "jiblee" pronunciation even though it's technically wrong.
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26Several Maserati automobiles and at least one modern fighter plane have also been named "Ghibli", which means "hot wind off the desert". This is actually a Arabic word from Libya-- the Italian equivalent is "Scirocco"-- and it refers to a particular wind that sweeps across the Sahara.
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28In 2019, GKIDS began the process of opening the films up to digital platforms in the US. They released almost every Studio Ghibli work onto all digital purchasing services, with the exception of ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'', which already had a (admittedly limited) digital release, in December. That year Ghibli's international distributor Wild Bunch signed a streaming deal with Creator/{{Netflix}} and began streaming the library internationally on February 2020 (with Canada getting them from June of that year). That same year, Creator/{{Max}} (then HBO Max) acquired the streaming rights to its library in the US and the catalogue (sans ''Grave of the Fireflies'' as well) became available on the platform at launch in May.
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31Has a wiki [[http://studio-ghibli.wikia.com/wiki/Studio_Ghibli_Wiki here]].
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33Trope namer for GhibliHills. Has absolutely nothing to do with the [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner jibblies]].
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36!!To date, Studio Ghibli has produced the following works:
37[[index]]
38[[AC:Feature films]]
39* ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', directed by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki (1984) [[note]]Technically not produced by the studio as it was originally produced by its predecessor, Creator/{{Topcraft}} with several future Ghibli members. The film would later be retroactively added to the studio’s library and become marketed as a Ghibli film starting in the mid-to-late 90s. Based on Miyazaki's manga of the same name[[/note]]
40* ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1986)
41* ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'', directed by Creator/IsaoTakahata (1988) [[note]]Based on the short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka. Originally released as a double feature with ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''.[[/note]]
42* ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1988) [[note]]Originally released as a double feature with ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies''.[[/note]]
43* ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1989) [[note]]Loosely based on an illustrated novel by Eiko Kadono[[/note]]
44* ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'', directed by Isao Takahata (1991) [[note]]Based on the manga by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Toné[[/note]]
45* ''Anime/PorcoRosso'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1992) [[note]]Based on a manga Miyazaki wrote called "The Age of the Flying Ship"[[/note]]
46* ''Anime/OceanWaves'', directed by Tomomi Mochizuki (1993) – Ghibli's first MadeForTVMovie [[note]]Based on the novel by Saeko Himuro[[/note]]
47* ''Anime/PomPoko'', directed by Isao Takahata (1994)
48* ''WebAnimation/OnYourMark'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1995) - An animated music video made for the eponymous song by Chage & Aska. [[note]]Despite the film's short length of 6 minutes and 48 seconds and being included in a short film collection Blu-ray, it is still considered a mainline feature film by Ghibli in Japan due to releasing theatrically. Originally released as a double feature with ''Anime/WhisperOfTheHeart''.[[/note]]
49* ''Anime/WhisperOfTheHeart'', directed by Yoshifumi Kondo (1995) [[note]]Based on a short manga by Aoi Hiiragi[[/note]]
50* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1997)
51* ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas'', directed by Isao Takahata (1999) [[note]]Based on a YonKoma by Hisaichi Ishii[[/note]]
52* ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (2001)
53* ''Anime/TheCatReturns'', directed by Hiroyuki Morita (2002) [[note]]Also based on a short manga by Aoi Hiiragi. Originally released as a double feature with ''Ghiblies: episode2'' [[/note]]
54* ''The GHIBLIES episode2'', directed by Yoshiyuki Momose (2002) [[note]]Sequel to a 2000 TV short called ''Ghiblies''. Considered a mainline feature film by Ghibli in Japan despite its 25-minute length. Originally released as a double feature with ''Anime/TheCatReturns''[[/note]]
55* ''[[Anime/HowlsMovingCastle Howl's Moving Castle]]'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (2004) [[note]]Based on the book of the same name by Creator/DianaWynneJones[[/note]]
56* ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea'', directed by Goro Miyazaki (2006) [[note]]Often called by its Japanese name ''Gedo Senki'' by anime fans; [[InNameOnly loosely based on]] the ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' novel series by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin[[/note]]
57* ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (2008) [[note]]An InNameOnly adaptation of Creator/HansChristianAndersen's ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''; shortened to "Ponyo" in North America[[/note]]
58* ''Anime/{{Arrietty}}'', directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2010) [[note]]Based on Mary Norton's ''Literature/TheBorrowers''; also called "The Secret World of Arrietty" in North America[[/note]]
59* ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill'', directed by Goro Miyazaki (2011) [[note]]Based on the manga "Kokuriko-Zaka Kara" by Tetsuo Sayama and Chizuru Takahashi[[/note]]
60* ''Anime/TheWindRises'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (2013) [[note]]Based on his 2009 manga about aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, the creator of the Mitsubishi [=A6M=] Zero[[/note]]
61* ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'', directed by Isao Takahata (2013) [[note]]Based on the [=10th=]-century Japanese folk tale ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter''.[[/note]]
62* ''Anime/WhenMarnieWasThere'', directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2014) [[note]]Based on the 1967 novel by Joan G. Robinson[[/note]]
63* ''WesternAnimation/TheRedTurtle'', directed by Michael Dudok de Wit (2016) [[note]]Co-production with European studio Wild Bunch. Isao Takahata was the Artistic Producer.[[/note]]
64* ''Anime/EarwigAndTheWitch'', directed by Goro Miyazaki (2021) - Ghibli's second MadeForTVMovie and their first CGI feature film [[note]]Based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Creator/DianaWynneJones[[/note]]
65* ''Anime/TheBoyAndTheHeron''[[note]]''[[CompletelyDifferentTitle How Do You Live?]]'' in Japanese[[/note]], directed by Hayao Miyazaki (2023) [[note]]Loosely inspired by the [[Literature/HowDoYouLive 1937 novel]] by Genzaburo Yoshino[[/note]]
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67[[AC:Short films]]
68* ''The GHIBLIES'', directed by Yoshiyuki Momose (2000) - A SelfParody short film of Studio Ghibli and its staff. Premiered on TV. Would later get a sequel with a theatrical release in 2002.
69* ''Anime/MeiAndTheKittenbus'', directed by Hayao Miyazaki (2002) - Direct sequel short to ''My Neighbor Totoro'' and the first sequel to a previous Ghibli film. Exclusive to the Ghibli Museum.
70* ''The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction'', directed by Creator/HideakiAnno (2002) - A coproduction between Studio Ghibli and Creator/StudioGainax. Exclusive to the Ghibli Museum.
71* ''Iblard Time'', directed by Naohisa Inoue (2007) - A [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] {{OVA}} featuring animated interpretations of Naohisa Inoue's paintings in his imaginary world of Iblard. Naohisa Inoue previously designed the fantasy sequences in ''Anime/WhisperOfTheHeart''.
72* ''Giant Warrior Appears in Tokyo'', directed by Shinji Higuchi (2012) - Live action {{Toku}} prequel short to ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', a coproduction between Studio Ghibli and Creator/HideakiAnno's Creator/StudioKhara. Premiered in Japanese cinemas alongside ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Evangelion:3.0 You can (not) redo.]]''. Also serves as a SpiritualPredecessor to ''Film/ShinGodzilla''.
73* ''Zen: Grogu and Dust Bunnies'', directed by Katsuya Kondo (2022) - A [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] short animation crossover between ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' and ''Franchise/StarWars: Series/TheMandalorian''. A coproduction between Studio Ghibli and Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} made as a thank-you from Studio Ghibli to Creator/KathleenKennedy, who produced many of Studio Ghibli's English dubs prior to joining Lucasfilm. Exclusive to Creator/DisneyPlus.
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75[[AC:TV series]]
76* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', directed by Hideaki Anno (1995) [[note]]Coproduction with Creator/StudioGainax, Creator/ProductionIG, and Creator/TatsunokoProduction[[/note]]
77* ''Literature/RonjaTheRobbersDaughter'', directed by Goro Miyazaki (2014) [[note]]Based on the novel by Creator/AstridLindgren, coproduction with Creator/PolygonPictures[[/note]]
78[[/index]]
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81Like many other Asian studios, they have also worked on productions as a support studio through their C-unit (Miyazaki runs the A-unit and Takahata ran the B-unit until his death; the C-unit is random):
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84!!Animated works on which Studio Ghibli has assisted in some way:
85* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' (Backgrounds)
86* ''Anime/BeastWarsII'' (Finish Animation)
87* ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'' (Backgrounds in ''II'' and ''III'')
88* ''[[Manga/BirdyTheMighty Birdy the Mighty: Decode]]'' (In-Between Animation)
89* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' (Art Boards, episode 24)
90* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis Tokyo 2040'' (Finish Animation)
91* ''Anime/DetectiveConanFilm02TheFourteethTarget'' (In-Between Animation)
92* ''[[Anime/LeChevalierDEon Le Chevalier d'Eon]]'' (In-Between Animation & Digital Paint)
93* ''Manga/CorpsePrincess'' (In-Between Animation)
94* Both ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' movies (Special Effects)
95* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' (In-Between Animation)
96* ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' (Animation for the {{OVA}}s)
97* ''Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower'' (Prodcution Cooperation)
98* ''Anime/ElementalGelade'' (Background Art)
99* ''Manga/FlameOfRecca '' (Background Art)
100* ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' (In-Between Animation)
101* ''Anime/GhostInTheShell 2: Innocence'' (In-Between Animation; also co-produced alongside Creator/ProductionIG)
102* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' (In-Between Animation and Photography for episodes one and two)
103* ''Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix'' (In-Between Animation)
104* ''{{Manga/Kochikame}}'' (In-Between Animation, series and the first movie)
105* ''Anime/LupinIII'' – While some of the people who would later build Ghibli ''were'' involved with some of the early entries (most notably Miyazaki and Takahata), the company itself provided Animation Cooperation for ''Anime/FarewellToNostradamus''.
106* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' (Finish Animation)
107* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' (In-Between Animation)
108* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (Animation Assistance for episode eleven; Co-producers)
109** ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' (In-Between Animation and Production Cooperation for ''You Can (Not) Redo'')
110* ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' (Key & In-Between Animation for [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE8GrowingPains "Growing Pains"]] through Atsuko Otani, Mariko Matsuo, Takeshi Inamura, Mariko Suzuki, Tamami Yamada, Masaya Saito, and Eiji Yamamori)
111* ''Anime/OtakuNoVideo'' (In-Between Animation)
112* ''Anime/OvermanKingGainer'' (In-Between Animation)
113* ''Anime/PhantomQuestCorp'' (In-Between Animation)
114* ''Anime/{{Raideen}}'' (In-Between Animation & Digital Paint, 2007 series)
115* ''Anime/RobotCarnival'' (Production Cooperation)
116* ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' (Backgrounds)
117* ''Anime/SCryed'' (In-Between Animation)
118* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (Finish Animation)
119* ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'' (In-Between Animation)
120* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' (Key & In-Between Animation for "World's Finest, part 2" through Atsuko Otani, Masako Shinohara, Eiji Yamamori, Takeshi Inamura, Shinsaku Sasaki, Ikuo Kuwana, Mariko Suzuki, Hana Kikuchi, Tamami Yamada, Akiko Teshima and Atsushi Tamura)
121* ''Anime/SummerWars'' (Key Animation through Hideaki Yoshio)
122* ''Manga/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'' (Background Art)
123* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' (In-Between & Finish Animation)
124* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' (Key & In-Between Animation)
125* ''Anime/XamdLostMemories'' (In-Between Animation; Photography)
126* ''Anime/XxxHolic'' (In-Between Animation)
127* ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'' (Cel Painting for the first season, In-Between Animation for the second season)
128* ''[[Anime/RedPhotonZillion Zillion]]'' (Finish Animation)
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131Studio Ghibli also has a couple of ''games'' to its credit:
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133* ''VideoGame/MagicPengel'' (Character Designs and Artwork)
134[[index]]
135* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'', with Creator/{{Level 5}} (2010)
136[[/index]]
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138They also allegedly helped with the artwork for ''VideoGame/JeanneDArc''.
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141Despite being known as an animation studio, in the early 2000s, Studio Ghibli briefly dabbled in live-action films as well, which were released under the (now defunct) live action subsidiary, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Kajino Studio Kajino]].
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143!!Live action films by Studio Kajino:
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145* ''Film/ShikiJutsu'' (2000), directed by Creator/HideakiAnno
146* ''Film/{{Satorare}}'' (2001), directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro
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149The studio has its own [[http://atlasobscura.com/places/ghibli-museum museum]] that shows exclusive short films. The short that evolved into ''Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}}'' was first shown here. It also distributes Western animated films in Japan such as the works of Creator/MichelOcelot, Sylvan Chomet, and Creator/AardmanAnimations under the "Ghibli Museum Library" label.
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151Studio Ghibli is well-known among anime fans for maintaining a ''very'' strict anti-editing policy when they license their films for international distribution – although they have no problem with foreign companies translating credits or dubbing dialogue and insert songs (in fact they encourage it because they value accessibility), they do not allow even one single frame of animation to be altered or edited out. This is due to the ''Warriors of the Wind'' fiasco, when Tokuma Shoten sold ''[[Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Nausicaä]]'' overseas behind Miyazaki's back, where the buyer, Manson International, heavily cut the film (more information about that can be found on the film's page). It became an issue after Creator/{{Disney}} negotiated a deal with Tokuma Shoten in 1996 that allowed Disney to distribute all but one of Ghibli's feature films.[[note]] ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' is the odd one out, as Shinchosha, publishers of the source manga, owns the rights instead of Tokuma...  and given its [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII subject]] [[TearJerker matter]], Disney probably wouldn't have wanted it anyway. The film had already been licensed to Creator/CentralParkMedia, and Creator/SentaiFilmworks would pick it up in the early 2010s after CPM's demise.[[/note]] They handed localization of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' off to [[Creator/{{Miramax}} Miramax Films]]. [[Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany Harvey Weinstein]] immediately tried to edit ''Mononoke'' to get the movie re-rated PG. In response, Suzuki ([[UrbanLegend allegedly]]) sent him an authentic katana, attached to which was a note: [[IncrediblyLamePun "No cuts!"]]. On the one hand, this policy has allowed North America (where companies are notorious for censoring foreign things) to see these movies as they were meant to be seen; on the other hand, ''Mononoke'''s PG-13 rating almost certainly led to its being a BoxOfficeBomb and to Disney's subsequent refusal to allow ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' any release at all. Still, Disney had for the most part done rather well by the rest of Ghibli's catalogue, which are often the top-selling anime in North America for any given year due to the studio's mainstream credibility. The contract between the companies expired in 2017 and was not renewed.[[note]]Disney still handles the home video releases of Ghibli's films in Japan however ''Earwig and the Witch'' was distributed there by Pony Canyon.[[/note]]
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153Unfortunately, despite all the critical acclaim, by the late-2000s it was clear that all was not well at Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki's infamous {{workaholic}} and ControlFreak tendencies meant that the studio had not adequately fostered new directorial talent capable of taking over once he and Takahata finally retired. Indeed, the studio did not do so until it was absolutely unavoidable. Miyazaki ''did'' actually choose his successor back in the 90's; unfortunately for him, it was Yoshifumi Kondo (director of ''Whisper of the Heart''), who sadly and unexpectedly passed away in 1998 after suffering a brain hemorrhage[[note]]It's rumored that Kondo's fatal hemorrhage was the combined result of him trying and failing to match Miyazaki's insane perfectionism and pressure from Isao Takahata, neither of which Miyazaki & Takahata disagreed with[[/note]]. Hayao's son Goro's 2006 directorial debut ''Tales From Earthsea'' received mixed reviews and the studio did not consider it a success. Producer Toshio Suzuki's decision to tap the younger Miyazaki to direct ''Earthsea'' caused a rift between the two Miyazakis, as Hayao believed that Goro was not ready to direct a film[[note]] (he kinda had a point, considering that Goro was trained as an architect, not an animator)[[/note]], a belief that the film's lackluster performance appeared to confirm. However, the elder Miyazaki's opinion of the finished film, "It was made honestly, so it was good", did much to repair their relationship, as Japanese culture considers sincerity more praiseworthy than success. Miyazaki seems to have ''finally'' found his successor in Hiromasa Yonebayashi, director of ''Arrietty''. In addition, Goro's second movie, ''From Up On Poppy Hill'', won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, which has likely secured him a place as another worthy successor to his father.
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155But even finding new directors was not enough to stop Ghibli's financial troubles. The worldwide economic collapse of the late-2000s meant Ghibli could no longer depend on Western sales to cover its meager domestic profits – which alone were barely enough to cover its aforementioned absurdly high operating costs. Toshio Suzuki ominously intoned in 2010 that Ghibli would shut down if ''Arrietty'' did not sell enough at the box office to secure financial backing for another film. As it turned out, ''Arrietty'' '''did''' do well enough (80% of ''Ponyo'''s sales) to ensure funding for ''Up On Poppy Hill'', which became the highest-grossing Japanese film for 2011. However, the studio ended up taking a heavy loss on ''Princess Kaguya'' – unsurprising given Takahata's chronic inability to complete anything on time or within budget – and profits for ''Marnie'' and ''The Wind Rises'' were middling at best, putting the studio's future in question.
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157In early 2014, Miyazaki, Takahata, and Suzuki all announced their retirements – and Miyazaki, long infamous for [[TenMinuteRetirement flip-flopping on this subject]], appeared to mean it at the time.[[note]]He continued to work on short films during this period.[[/note]] On August 3, Suzuki stated that Ghibli would take a break from feature film animation while they undergo restructuring and figure out where/how to continue the company in the future. Since then, Yonebayashi founded Creator/StudioPonoc with former Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura, and directed the studio's first movie ''Anime/MaryAndTheWitchsFlower'', and Goro has directed an adaptation of ''Literature/RonjaTheRobbersDaughter'' as a TV co-production with Polygon Pictures.
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159New hope for the studio has been garnered when, in very late 2015, it was announced that Ghibli would be providing some of the animation for ''WesternAnimation/TheRedTurtle'', which was released September of 2016 in Japan. The film is notable for being a co-production between Ghibli and the European studio Wild Bunch. In late 2016, Miyazaki gave hints that he was un-retiring for one more feature film, which was confirmed early in 2017. On October 31, 2017, it was announced that Miyazaki's [[Anime/TheBoyAndTheHeron next film]] would be inspired by the 1937 Genzaburou Yoshino novel, ''Literature/HowDoYouLive'', which was released in 2023, and a month later in the same year, it was announced that Goro Miyazaki will be directing a fully CGI film, the first from the studio, which in June 2020 was revealed to be an adaptation of ''Earwig and the Witch'' and it was released in December on Japanese TV network, Creator/{{NHK}} (making it the studio's first MadeForTVMovie since ''Ocean Waves'' back in 1993).
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161In July 2017, GKIDS, which owns the North American theatrical distribution rights to the Ghibli films, acquired the other rights to the Ghibli films, with the exceptions of ''The Wind Rises'' and ''Grave of the Fireflies''. Creator/ShoutFactory distributes the home media releases on GKIDS' behalf. GKIDS previously distributed ''From Up on Poppy Hill'' through Cinedigm, as well as ''The Tale of Princess Kaguya'', ''When Marnie Was There'', ''Ocean Waves'', and ''Only Yesterday'' through Creator/{{Universal}}.
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163On April 5, 2018, Isao Takahata died at the age of 82 due to lung cancer.
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165After five years of development, a park themed around the films, titled [[https://ghibli-park.jp/en/ Ghibli Park]], opened on November 1st, 2022.
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167On November 10, 2022, Ghibli [[https://twitter.com/jp_ghibli/status/1590720957676949504?s=61&t=PJI_G9JwtOj98HFp5ab_LA announced]] a collaboration with Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} on their Twitter account, making it the first collaboration between them and Disney since the latter's distribution of ''The Wind Rises'' back in 2013. The collaboration, the hand-drawn short ''Zen - [[Series/TheMandalorian Grogu]] and Dust Bunnies'', would debut two days later on Creator/DisneyPlus.
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169On September 21, 2023, it was announced that Creator/NipponTelevision (a longtime partner of Ghibli since the '80s) would [[https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/09/21/companies/nippon-tv-ghibli-acquisition/ acquire Studio Ghibli]], ending their 18-year run as an independent animation studio. According to Toshio Suzuki, the deal was primarily motivated by his and Miyazaki’s ages and their desire to find someone who can lead Ghibli when they’re gone. As of the acquisition, Ghibli will be headed by senior operating officer and board director Hiroyuki Fukuda, while Suzuki and Miyazaki will assume the roles of chairman and honorary chairman, respectively. Nippon TV will primarily be handling the management side of things, allowing Ghibli to focus solely on their creative endeavors.
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172!! Studio Ghibli and its works provide examples of:
173%% Remember, creators do not get trivia pages. Trivia items on this page should stay here.
174* AbandonedMascot: Based on their consecutive appearances in ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' and ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'', the [[MixAndMatchCritters fox]] [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter squirrels]] seemed as though they were going to be built up as the company's mascot. However, [[Anime/MyNeighborTotoro Totoro]] became the official {{mascot}} immediately after, making the fox squirrels redundant; since then, they have only appeared as an EasterEgg in [[Anime/WhenMarnieWasThere one film]].
175* BreakingOldTrends: ''The Red Turtle'' is the first, and so far only, film of theirs not to be animated in Japan by them or their usual production partners. With European animators and studios like Dreamwall and Creator/AFilm assisting them.
176* CelebrityVoiceActor:
177** Beginning in 1997 with ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', every last one of their films has an AllStarCast of veteran Japanese actors for their main characters, some of those including popular singers and stage actors. Even before then, Ghibli has used celebrities to voice supporting and main characters, such as Shigesato Itoi, who voices Satsuki and Mei's father in ''Totoro''; and Issei Takahashi, who voices Seiji Amasawa in ''Whisper of the Heart''.
178** In their English dubs produced first by Disney and later Ghibli itself, they have a mix of professional voice actors as well as celebrities who don't normally do voice acting.
179* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: This was the longest practice from Studio Ghibli, which refused to put out their movies on streaming services. Though that changed in 2020 with HBO Max and Netflix gaining rights to distribute them.
180* EpicMovie: Studio Ghibli's films are often much grander in scope and longer in length than most animated films, even in Japan. Even their more mundane slice-of-life films and kid-oriented films are much longer than most animated films.
181* EverybodyHelpsOutDenouement: Very often you will see characters that started out as enemies put their differences aside in order to work together to help the protagonist resolve the situation, or at the very least they lend moral support.
182** ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill'' - the male and female students put their differences aside and band together to fix up and save the club house / the people of Yokohama band together to help Umi and Shun make it to the harbor in time to speak with a ship's officer who has important information about their shared past.
183** ''Anime/{{Ponyo}}'' - After the flood, the towns people form a boat convoy / Sōsuke's parents, the goddess of the sea, the wizard and the residents of the retirement home get together to bring the movie to a resolution.
184** ''Anime/PorcoRosso'' - the sea plane pirates who were supposed to be hunting down the protagonists decide to band together to help them escape the Italian police.
185** ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' - Although they are initially content to sit back and watch her suffer, the denizens of the bath house band together to help Sen with the stink monster. Later, a group of characters who were all originally hostile to Sen work together to make her a protective charm.
186* FoodPorn: Many films are stuff full of mouth watering food.
187* GhibliHills: The TropeNamer; many of their films are filled with scenes set in lush, pristine wilderness.
188* InvisibleAdvertising: Done intentionally with ''How Do You Live?'', deliberately eschewing trailers, promotional stills, or any other conventional forms of advertising. The only indications that the film both existed and was coming out came from press announcements and a theatrical poster, neither of which gave any indication about the film's contents. According to producer Toshio Suzuki, the lack of advertising was done as a direct contrast with Ghibli's prior promotional campaigns, stating that "Doing the same thing you’ve done before, over and over, you get tired of it. So we wanted to do something different." Suzuki also mentioned that Creator/HayaoMiyazaki was worried about the lack of promotion, but nonetheless trusted the decision and felt that it was ultimately the best course of action.
189* NoAntagonist: This is mainly for films they make which are intended for children, such as ''Anime/{{Ponyo}}'' and ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'', where the tension comes from the plot. The reason why is to avoid teaching children that the world is Black and White.
190* NoExportForYou: Until Disney negotiated a deal with Ghibli's former owner Tokuma Shoten in 1996, any attempt to watch a Ghibli film in North America aside from ''Totoro'' was impossible.
191* PaintedCGI: In most of their films, [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects 3D assets]] are given hand-painted textures to blend in with the 2D hand-painted backgrounds. Said textures are painted on paper like standard backgrounds, and then mapped to the 3D models. Even more impressive as they have been doing this since [[OlderThanTheyThink 1997's]] ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''.
192** ''Anime/EarwigAndTheWitch'' still invokes PaintedCGI even with a StopFauxtion style, instead using hand-drawn effects for magic particle effects.
193* ProductionPosse:
194** A lot of Ghibli's staff members are long-time employees, including Toshio Suzuki, Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and his son Goro, Creator/IsaoTakahata, Yoshifumi Kondo, Masashi Ando, Makiko Futaki, Kitaro Kosaka, Yoshiaki Nishimura, and Hiromasa Yonebayashi.
195** In terms of animation contractors, Creator/StudioTakuranke and Creator/NakamuraProductions are the most reoccurring in their projects.
196** Takeshi Seyama has edited most of Ghibli's films, including those directed by Hayao and Goro Miyazaki, since its founding.
197* {{Retraux}}: When ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' was released on Platform/BluRay, Studio Ghibli added PostProcessingVideoEffects to simulate film grain, gate weave, and a slight softness to replicate the look of analogue 35mm film and vintage cel animation while working with digital ink and paint. Their previous all-digital films (starting with ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas'') had this filter retroactively applied for the Platform/BluRay remasters to simulate how the films looked when they were originally released in cinemas via. 35mm prints. All future films from Studio Ghibli (and successor Creator/StudioPonoc) would later have this filter on home video releases and digital theatrical prints[[note]]The rare 35mm theatrical prints have not been digitally filtered, however, as the process of printing the digital files to 35mm film already renders the filter effects unnecessary and even detrimental to the quality of the prints.[[/note]], even in the AllCGICartoon ''Anime/EarwigAndTheWitch''.
198** ''Anime/TheWindRises'' takes this further on top of having the 35mm filter, since the film was also mixed in monophonic sound despite being released in 2013, to enhance the feeling of taking place during TheGreatDepression, just before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
199** ''Anime/EarwigAndTheWitch'', instead of trying to look like a more modern hyper-realistic AllCGICartoon like those from Creator/{{Pixar}}, instead going for a StopFauxtion style inspired by Creator/TimBurton, Creator/AardmanAnimations, and Creator/{{LAIKA}}, with some [[PaintedCGI hand-drawn visual effects]].
200* ScrewedByTheLawyers:
201** For several years, this was the reason GKIDS had yet to re-release ''The Wind Rises''. While GKIDS initially purchased the theatrical and digital video rights to the film, Disney still owned the home media rights to it until 2020, when GKIDS bought the home media rights to that film as well.
202** As for ''Grave of the Fireflies'', the rights to the film are owned by Shinchosha and it's still licensed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks in North America. However, in 2018, GKIDS acquired the theatrical rights to the film, thereby acquiring these particular rights to all except one of Ghibli's films.
203* ScrewedByTheNetwork: After GKIDS bought out the Ghibli film license from Disney, they confirmed that they would not release digital copies of their films. This was a result of Studio Ghibli's own ExecutiveMeddling at the time, since even Disney couldn't do it back when they had most of those licenses. That was, however, until December 2019 when GKIDS announced that they acquired the digital video rights to all of the Ghibli films except for ''Grave of the Fireflies''.
204* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The majority of Studio Ghibli's films tend to be on the idealistic side, with ''My Neighbor Totoro'' and ''Spirited Away'' being prominent examples; the only other film that leaned more towards the cynical side is ''Grave of the Fireflies''. Meanwhile, Isao Takahata's films post-''Grave of the Fireflies'' lie somewhere in the middle, taking on a decidedly more bittersweet tone.
205* StartMyOwn: Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki organized Studio Ghibli after Miyazaki and Takahata finished work on the film adaptation of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''.
206* StudioHop:
207** ''Castle in the Sky'' was distributed by Creator/ToeiCompany and ''Totoro'' was distributed by Creator/{{Toho}}. When ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' was released, Toei distributed the film once again. By 1991, most of Ghibli's films would be distributed by Toho[[note]]The only exceptions were ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas'' and the pro-shot of the kabuki stage adaptation of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', both of which were distributed by Creator/{{Shochiku}}, which also co-produced the latter.[[/note]], which has been a member of Ghibli's production commitees since 2002. So, all of the Ghibli films in Japan have been distributed by Toho in their theatrical releases. Toho also re-released ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' in Japanese cinemas in 2020, after being distributed by Toei in 1984. ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'', ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'', and ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' were also codistributed by Creator/{{Daiei}}.
208** The North American releases have a long history:
209*** ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' was licensed first by Manson International and released as the infamous ''Warriors of the Wind''.
210*** ''My Neighbor Totoro'', ''Castle in the Sky'', ''Porco Rosso'', and ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' were dubbed into English by Creator/StreamlinePictures for screenings on Japan Airlines and for theatrical releases in the [[HongKongDub Hong Kong market]]. Of these, ''Totoro'' was released in North America on VHS by Creator/{{Troma}} and Creator/FoxSearchlightPictures.
211*** For ''Grave of the Fireflies'', it was licensed first by Creator/CentralParkMedia and later by Creator/ADVFilms, who then restructered into Creator/SentaiFilmworks, who released a Blu-Ray with their own dub in addition to the original CPM dub. To this day, Sentai still retains the rights since the film isn't represented by Studio Ghibli.
212*** Similarly, ''WesternAnimation/TheRedTurtle'' is licensed by Creator/SonyPicturesClassics instead of Disney or GKIDS.
213*** Disney negotiated with Tokuma in 1996 to acquire the rights all of their films and dub them with an AllStarCast for future distribution of their works; their divisions Miramax and Touchstone distributed ''Princess Mononoke'' and ''The Wind Rises'', respectively. In 2011, GKIDS took control of the theatrical rights to the Ghibli films and would later go on to license ''From Up on Poppy Hill'', ''The Tale of the Princess Kaguya'', ''When Marnie Was There'', ''Only Yesterday'', and ''Ocean Waves''; ''Poppy Hill'' was distributed by Cinedigm and when their contract expired in late 2013, the latter films were distributed through Creator/{{Universal}}. Six years later, GKIDS took control of the remaining rights to the films outright and distributed them through Creator/ShoutFactory, except for the aforementioned ''Grave of the Fireflies'' and ''The Wind Rises'', as it was still licensed to Disney at the time. Then, in December 2019, GKIDS bought the digital video rights to the films, including ''The Wind Rises''. Thus, GKIDS owns the theatrical, television, home video and digital video rights to every Ghibli film except for ''Grave of the Fireflies'' and ''The Red Turtle''.
214* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Ghibli had several films that never saw the light of day.
215** Isao Takahata originally wanted to make an adaptation of the novel, ''Border 1939'', which would've acted as a spiritual sequel to ''Grave of the Fireflies'' that would've touched on similar themes to that film. Takahata would make a full outline of the the film, before it was cancelled due to concerns about the film being partially set in China being too risky (the film would've had numerous settings besides Japan such as China, Korea and Mongolia) due to the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents which was recent at the time]] and negative public sentiment against China being at an all time high.
216** In the late nineties, Hayao Miyazaki originally planned to make a film titled ''Rin the Chimney Sweeper''. Little about the film is known outside of the fact that some of the ideas intended for the film would be later reused for ''Spirited Away'', most notably its ending song, "Always With You".
217** Hayao Miyazaki originally wanted to do a sequel to ''Ponyo'', until Toshio Sezuki persuaded him to work on ''The Wind Rises'' instead. Miyazaki had also thought about doing a sequel to ''Porco Rosso'' as well, titled ''Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie'', but it never went past the concept stage.
218** In what could've been a serious case of PlayingAgainstType, Hayao Miyazaki and Ghibli had expressed interest in doing an adaptation of horror manga ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}''. This never went through due to Creator/NewLineCinema [[ScrewedByTheLawyers holding the film rights at the time]].

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