I hope everyone’s having a really good start to 2026 in spite of the political horrors around us. Even in an unstable world we can keep our creative energy going and get stuck into a project, old or new, while …
My third Studio Ghibli Seed Talk in February 2026 is in Northampton, in the Rodber Suite. You can get tickets here. It’s a 14+ event, so no younger children will be allowed in to the venue.
This is a …
On 10 February I’m in Taunton, talking about the art history of Studio Ghibli at Somerset County Cricket Club. This will be the first time I’ve ever spoken in a sports club, but Ghibli fan audiences are always great, so …
The New Year’s approaching fast and my calendar is already picking up the pace. In February I’m in the West Country giving my first ever Studio Ghibli talks in Plymouth and Taunton. The Quad Theatre is the Plymouth venue, the …
Look what came in the post from Paris – the perfect Christmas gift to myself. Now I can relive the Isao Takahata exhibition through Ilan Nguyen’s elegant translation of the original Japanese catalogue for Musée Européen du Manga et de …
On 26 January I’m doing my first Seed Talk of 2026, taking my successful and widely praised Art History of Studio Ghibli to the White Rock Theatre in Hastings.
Oldschool Ghibli fans have told me they learned something new from …
I often get asked about the cute cotton tunic dresses I wear to present my Seed Talks. They’re licensed Ghibli merch and they come straight from French website Maison Ghibli.
This is the outlet for SEMEC, Ghibli’s European distributors and …
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 …
I’m delighted that the proceedings of the Lancaster symposium on transnational anime are now published as an issue of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS), free to read here.
There really is something for everyone here, from papers …
Although asked in the context of Miyazaki’s and Ghibli’s views on the primacy of the feature film, this question covers an issue that’s been debated in the anime business and anime scholarship for decades. It’s a really interesting question, because …
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