Studio Ghibli: What Now?

Kenichi Yoda (black top) and Goro Miyazaki (blue-grey shirt) seated behind a table in a book-lined conference room at Studio Ghibli. Photo ©Kenichi Takahashi

Many thanks to Roland Kelts for gifting the link to this interesting Bloomberg piece on the future of Studio Ghibli. It’s paywalled, like all their content, but Ghibliophiles like us might consider it worth the subscription. It’s an interview with Goro Miyazaki and Ghibli’s new president and CEO Kenichi Yoda, in which they discuss the […]

Studio Ghibli Question Time: is there any chance that Ghibli will ever adapt Diana Wynne Jones’ sequels to Howl’s Moving Castle?

The Folio Society edition of Diana Wynne Jones' Ingary novels, known as the Howl's Moving Castle collection. All three books are illustrated by Marie-Alice Harel with cover designs in similar tones of rose, purple and grey. The image shows the first two books of the trilogy stacked on each other, spines with titles facing the viewer, while the third is placed on top of them, slightly open so that front and back covers and spine are all visible.

Well, never say never … but at present it seems unlikely, for three reasons. Firstly, Hayao Miyazaki has spent more than a decade working on two films. The Wind Rises and The Boy and the Heron,  that are deeply personal. They are explorations of his own ideas, inspirations and beliefs, and of events and relationships that […]