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Tokuma Shoten anime

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)The English version of Nausicaä was cut by about 22 minutes and renamed her Princess Zandra.
  • Castle in the SkyCastle in the Sky began as a way to recover money spent on a canal documentary.
  • My Neighbor TotoroEight animators finished My Neighbor Totoro in just eight months. They spent one full month on a tadpole scene alone.
  • Kiki's Delivery ServiceKiki's Delivery Service was first planned as a 60-minute TV special. It grew into a 102-minute feature.
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone ComplexGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is set in the year 2030, in a Japan where many people have replaced their bodies with prosthetics and become cyborgs. It is an anime television series about an elite law enforcement unit that…
  • Spirited AwayIn Spirited Away, a girl's parents turn into pigs in an abandoned resort town. Ten-year-old Chihiro is left alone.
  • The Cat ReturnsThe Cat Returns began as a 20-minute short for a theme park that canceled it. Ghibli made it a feature.
  • Princess MononokeHayao Miyazaki spent seventeen years getting Princess Mononoke made.
  • Only Yesterday (1991 film)Ghibli's color team spent roughly a year hunting one shade of red for Only Yesterday.
  • Pom PokoStudio Ghibli's Pom Poko ends on a golf course, where a grassy clearing is all that remains of an ancient forest.
  • Whisper of the HeartWhisper of the Heart begins when a girl sees the same name on every library book she borrows.
  • Porco RossoIn the film Porco Rosso, an Italian war hero has become a pig. Nobody in the story explains why.
  • Samurai ChamplooSamurai Champloo opens with a coin toss that decides whether two swordsmen keep trying to kill each other. Heads, and their duel goes on. Tails, and they must first help a young woman search for a samurai who smells of sunflowers. This…
  • Howl's Moving Castle (film)A curse turns Sophie into a 90-year-old woman, and she becomes bolder.
  • My Neighbors the YamadasMy Neighbors the Yamadas is a Studio Ghibli film about a family fighting over the TV remote.

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