New to Ghibli works, but absolutely in love with them. I saw My Neighbor Totoro, and felt a profound overlap between Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time".

- The hyper focus on "the ordinary" to highlight the beauty of simple everyday occurrences (where Proust is heavily influenced by Vermeer's paintings). While Proust does this in prose, MNT does this with its animation and visuals and sound design.

- Lots of reminiscing on the sweetness of childhood and relationships with a granny that make you stop and think about your own family life. Every time I read some Proust I appreciate my own life and family more, and the only other artistic works that have had this effect has been the Studio Ghibli movies i've been watching.

- The obsession with dreaming and imagination. Proust has a quote, "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time." I find this theme omnipresent in Studio Ghibli works.

Has anyone else picked up on this? Was Miyazaki influenced by Proust? Anyone else here also a fan of Proust?

Every time i watch a ghibli movie on a big screen or at the movies i always want to start to cry, im not sure if its just because it was such huge part of my childhood but it happens all the time. I have such a huge appreciation for the studio and as an artist i truly look up to miyazaki’s art style like no other artist.

Just finished this 1,000 piece puzzle I got as a souvenir while visiting Japan! Took over a week but was so worth it. Planning to frame it and put in my office!

(*The edges only look weird because the table is round)

Just what the title says :3 We’ve already watched Ponyo, My neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Spirited Away, Howl’s moving castle, and The Cat Returns!

I’m just looking for suggestions, thank you :D

Hello, I wanted to share you this Ghibli fanart with you ! 😁 There are 13 movies to find in this drawing. The artist is Timya on instagram ✍️

Hello, I'm searching for ghibli studio short clips for my editing purposes. Where can I get them?

I really wanted this book and easily could’ve gotten it for cheap online. But my dad got it for me. I told him how I wanted to earn this book, since I’m going into the military soon. I wanted to give myself a reward to look forward to. But one morning while visiting he just came back and got it for me

I was surprised but also a bit disappointed that there was a tear on the bottom. Since I like my things to be clean and yk not ripped, dirty, or used.

But then it hit me, my dad rarely ever hears what I want besides money for birthday and Christmas, and I’m normally not very open bout this. Just because I’m not. But this was the first I’ve ever told him something I was passionate about getting that wasn’t money. And this little tear grew on me. That it’s imperfect.

It’s a reminder that nothing is perfect, something i just struggle with internally and externally. That even though my dad won’t ever know, he’s helping me grow out of this perfectionist mindset, and that it’s ok to have a few tears here and there.

Thanks dad, every time I look at this book and that eyesore on the bottom right corner, I’ll think of you and he grateful for anything you give me

My question concerns older Ghibli titles, maybe before the mid-90s Disney home video deal.

The Hong Kong theatrical release dates seem to come before the USA ones. Off of that point, I am guessing that Cantonese dubs were created/released before English.

However, I do not know about home video, and perhaps there were overseas markets target before USA.

Dragonball I believe was dubbed in Cantonese before English. Also IIRC, Akira dubbed in English first -- but for the Hong Kong market!

Last time I went to Ghibli Park around 2023, there were very specific time slots we had to book for each special area (Satsuki and Mei's house, Hill of Youth World Emporium etc). But did they change that recently? Because after the Valley of Witches opened, I saw a lot of videos saying you need to book your timing for the grand warehouse, but never mention timings for any other areas. Can you just go in at any time if you have the pass?

I'm planning a trip to Ghibli Park with a friend from Japan who's never been (but she's helping to buy the tickets since she's a local), so I thought I'd ask.

When this movie came out specially brazil it felt like a HUGE event, everyone i knew was talking specially after the oscars which happend one week before the movie came out, everyone was talking about that being miyazaki last film, his magnum opus and we knew so little about it and i remember walking in the streets seeing poster of it and a huge standee in my movie theather, and at the time i wasnt even a ghibli fan i had only wacthed that one grogu short on disney + and ponyo which i loved at the time, i had friends how didnt watched a single ghibli film seeing it in the movies. So i think, this will be considered one of ghibli mainstream classics like howl's, kiki, ponyo, porco and spirrited away or it will be much more a cult classic like the wind rises because this movie has a lot of happening and meta commentary about miyazaki's life and ghibli as whole or the criativity and its box office sucess world wide will turn it on a mainstream classic? Only time will tell...

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The wife is out of town with the kids, and I have a bottle whiskey ready. Am I in for a rough night by watching Grave of the Fireflies alone?

Most „Ghibli“ villains have ( at least in my opinion ) some redeeming qualities but Muska is the clear exception to that.I mean this guy wiling to force a teenage girl join him or face death so he could enact a literal genocide on all mankind.

Recent gouache painting I did for some practice in my notebook!

Hi,

ahead of the 10th February sale, I'm thinking about using the domestic site instead of the international one. I remember I did this back in 2023 and it worked out fine, I just put in a random number in my account information. I've seen multiple people saying that from last year there is an SMS verification system for the tickets.. is that true? I went all the way to the payment page now for the March tickets (as a test) and it did not ask me to verify the phone number... do you think it would potentially be a problem when picking up the tickets at Lawson? Do I just put a fake number or does it have to be real? Anyone actually got the tickets within the past couple months?

Another thing is, I accidently clicked "store payment" doing the test and it reserved them for me to pickup in store. Thanfully it will be voided in 4 days (since I won't go there), but I'm assuming that for pre-paid tickets I can actually pick them up once I arrive to Japan, not within 4 days? Or has that changed too?

Lastly, I obviously had to put in my name in Kanji. When translating it back in Google it doesn't seem to sound that similar to my normal one... If they decide to check my passport (in Lawson or at the Ghibli entrance), how will they confirm it's actually me? Will it be a case of checking if it sounds similar, or if the Kanji name is misspelled (it does sound weird) there will be problems?

Any advice would be appreciated. The English website keeps crashing for me even now and we only have 1 specific day we can go, so I really wanna try the domestic one too.

What do you think about these Hayao Miyazaki Shikishi? I have been comparing with authentic ones and can't see any inconsistency, it's condition looks from that time too. Any Miyazaki signature expert in the room :)?