#AnimeNEWS THE BOY AND THE HERON | Official Teaser Trailer

 Here's the trailer for the latest GHIBLI animated film, which has been long in development these last few years... and it looks gorgeous! Like a mix of several previous Miyazaki films. Check it out:

THE BOY AND THE HERON From Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli In theatres nationwide and IMAX December 8

#Animation NEWS! The Red Turtle trailer

Studio Ghibli's not dead! Well, sort of...

The Red Turtle will be a French-Japanese co-production between Wild Bunch studios and Studio Ghibli, a story with no dialogue directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit. Check out this gorgeous trailer:



This looks absolutely stunning! I love the french comics "Bande Dessinée" look they're going for, the art direction is just gorgeous! And the atmosphere is very Ghibli-esque!

#Anime NEWS! - John Lasseter honors Hayao Miyazaki at the 2014 Governors Awards

Check out John Lasseter's speech at the 2014 Governors Awards in the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood. A speech he made for the Honorary Award Hayao Miyazaki received there:



And Miyazaki's own speech as well:



Good stuff. I'll miss his big feature-length films, even though he will continue making some shorts for the Ghibli museum.

#Parody - Shonen Ghibli

Here's a funny silly random Studio Ghibli parody (starting with Totoro) from the crew at CollegeHumor



Bwahaha!

MR Porco Rosso

This Sunday, let's revisit another classic from Miyazaki!

Find more Studio Ghibli animated classics reviewed here!

Pre-Ghibli films: Horus / Panda Go Panda / Castle of Cagliostro / Chie / Gauche / Nausicaä
Ghibli films - 1986 to xx:Laputa / Grave of the Fireflies / Totoro / Kiki / Omohide Poro Poro

#Anime NEWS! And the 2014 Ghibli movie will be...

First up a little clip of Kaze Tachinu ("The Wind Rises"), the upcoming new Miyazaki animated film out in most places around the world this January.

In French subtitled only (sorry~)


Le Vent se Lève - Extrait : leur première... par FRFilmFactory

The animation looks amazing as always^^

And some news regarding the new following movie.

The new 2014 Studio Ghibli feature is titled Omoide no Marnie ("Marnie's memories").

It is based on one of Miyazaki's own favorite classic books, When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson. 

It will be directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi (Arrietty), marking his second feature film, so I guess that means he's officially taking over Miyazaki and Takahata?

And here's a link to the official website: http://www.marnie.jp/

MR Kiki

Time to have another look back at a classic Studio Ghibli film!

Find more Studio Ghibli animated classics reviewed here!

Pre-Ghibli films: Horus / Panda Go Panda / Castle of Cagliostro / Chie / Gauche / Nausicaä

Laputa / Grave of the Fireflies / Totoro

#Anime NEWS! And Ghibli's upcoming movie is...

And finally, here's the trailer for the upcoming Studio Ghibli film.

The one coming from Hayao Miyazaki, possibly his last film feature, Kaze Tachinu/The Wind Rises:



It looks magnificent!

I'm kinda sad they decided to separate his film from Takahata... Since these are supposed to be both their respective last movies, it would have been nice to have them paired like Totoro and Fireflies were at the beginning of it all...

MR Totoro

And here's the second half of Studio Ghibli's classic 1988 diptych..

This one's a cult classic that transcended the limits of what anime movies could offer or animation in general for that matter.

Find more Studio Ghibli animated classics reviewed here!

Pre-Ghibli films: Horus / Panda Go Panda / Castle of Cagliostro / Chie / Gauche / Nausicaä

Laputa / Grave of the Fireflies

MR Laputa

After all this time, here's another Studio Ghibli movie review!
"Officially", their very first productions, though the same animation team had been formed during Nausicaa.

It's yet another Hayao Miyazaki production!

MR Nausicaä

This week, let's look into what is considered the first Studio Ghibli movie (though it isn't!)
If you want to check out my previous reviews, follow the Ghibli-Marathon tag or simply click over the above picture!

Considered by many, a classic of the Japanese animations - for both fans of anime or not. Let's review Miyazaki's big independent debut...

MR The Castle of Cagliostro

Let's start off this year with a whole new review!
This time I would like to offer you yet another entry in my long running Studio Ghibli Marathon.

This yet another "Ghibli-esque" movie from the pre-Studio Ghibli era. Taking you this time in the late 70s...

COOLAPE Wednesday - Totoro

Link for the full comic on CoolApe:
http://www.coolape.org/comic-eyz-totoro.html

When Hollywood needs more ideas to turn into a movie... they turn their eyes to foreign proprieties!

Kind of a sequel to last year's

Panda! Go Panda! - opening

I was saying how awesome the main theme (and the general sountrack) was in Panda! Go Panda! in my latest review.

But I didn't show it properly.

So here's both OVAs' opening title screen for you all to enjoy!



So catchy~
:)

"Panda Kopanda Kopanda!!~"

MR Panda! Go, Panda!

And here's another review for my "Studio Ghibli Marathon"!~

Some nerds would love to nitpick, and scream at their computer screen saying "this isn't a movie! it's an OVA/OAV!!" well, check out my tags, notice my "OVA" tag? Good. Okay, now calm down, sit, relax and enjoy....

MR Horus: Prince of the Sun

With this review, I'm gonna start what I've been wanting to do for quite some time now... what we will call the "Studio Ghibli Marathon"!
But instead of going through the usual Spirited Aways and other Totoros right from the start like everybody else, I wanna take a look at the more obscure Pre-Ghibli movies as well.

So without further ado, let's start from the very beginning...

Anime News! The upcoming(s) new Ghibli movie

Here's a (japanese) trailer for the latest movie produced by Studio Ghibli.
Kokuriko-zaka kara (From Kokuriko Hill/From up on Poppy Hill).



It was released not long ago in Japan (only for now).
It is the second production directed by Goro Miyazaki. And unlike his previous movie (Earthsea), it's getting a very good reception and reviews. Though it is not making a lot of money. (blame a very poor marketing compared to previous Ghibli movies, or a release around the latest Harry Potter, which Japanese love as well)

On a related note, Hayao Miyazaki revealed some informations regarding his own future Ghibli production.
Development was started already. And it's sheduled for 2-years long of production time at least.
It's going to be a big budget title for summer 2013.

It will also take place during the Showa era, before Goro's movie above, probably around the 30s or 40s.
It will take place in a realistic setting this time.
It is an adaptation of an auto-biographic story.
They will use approximatively over 250 000 celluloids to animated it (around the double of what Sen to Chihiro/Spirited Away used).

Besides that? Not much information for the moment regarding the plot/story/characters...
I guess Joe Hisaishi will return to score the music.

And that is all for this time~

Eyz Drawing + 8-bits tune - Kiki's "Message of Rouge"

Here's a new drawing for a change!
I wanted to draw Kiki from Hayao Miyazaki's classic movie Kiki's Delivery Service for some time :P

On deviantArt.

And since I was thinking about that..
I love the opening Rock 'n' Roll theme so much, that I uploaded an 8-bits version of it on my youtube channel:



It came out pretty good I think, surprisingly!

The opening tune of Studio Ghibli's "Kiki's Delivery Service", "Rouge No Dengon" (Message of Rouge).
A very fun 60s style japanese rock and roll song!
Once again done using FL Studio 8 with the plugin magical8bit to simulate the 8 bits sound.
Hope you like it ;)
(and that youtube won't screw up the sound too much as usual!)