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Nausicaa in the Toxic Jungle staring at a pair of giant Ohmu. The jungle is dark and ancient, giant fungi towering up into the canopy and blotting out the sun. The only light is a patch of small blooming fungi that the Ohmu are walking through, lighting them in warm light from beneath. Various other giant insects roam the jungle, some flying above and others skittering across the trunks of trees.

Nausicaa in the Toxic Jungle.

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Drew this a year ago for a ghibli zine and finally posting!

#art #nausicaa #ghibli

Princess Mononoke Fanart. Ashitaka it's riding Yakul. They are crossing a river with a waterfall behind them. The kodamas are walking with them

Wanted to paint some greenery 🌿🌸 #digitalart #fanart #illustration #princessmononoke

Poster for My Neighbour Totoro (1988) showing Totoro, Satsuki and Mei playing music on a tree branch at night

Poster for Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), showing Kiki flying on her broom among seagulls above the town of Koriko

Voting is now open in the 2026 Ghibli Cup final! Head over to the forum to vote for either My Neighbour Totoro or Kiki's Delivery Service (no account needed!) www.onlineghibli.com/tavern/threa...

Art of The Cat Returns → buff.ly/UFdoaiy

#animation #conceptart #modelsheet #characterdesign #visdev

Hayao Miyazaki & Hideaki Anno ❤️
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Himi butters a slice of bread next to a tea set and jam in The Boy and the Heron (2023)

Surrounded by various bread in the Gutiokipanja bakery, Kiki looks dubiously at Tombo in Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

In front of a plate of eggs and bacon, Sophie accepts a slice of bread from Howl in Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Pazu grins, holding a slice of bread, in Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1984)

Bread in Studio Ghibli movies 🥖

✏️ Boceto original de 'Susurros del corazón' (Yoshifumi Kondō, 1995).

This Miyazaki episode of Lupin the 3rd had a huge influence on Katsuhiro Otomo -- he learned how to storyboard partly by watching it over and over again

From: Thieves Love the Peace (1980), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Telecom

Ashitaka feeds his steed Yakul by hand in Princess Mononoke (1997)

Wearing his hood, Ashitaka rides his steed Yakul and nocks an arrow in Princess Mononoke (1997)

Shuna rides his steed in Shuna's Journey (1983)

Following Ged, Arren leads his steed in Tales from Earthsea (2006)

In today's #GhibliSpotlight thread, we have a look at Yakul (ヤックル), Ashitaka's memorable steed from Princess Mononoke, and its similar predecessors going all the way back to Miyazaki Hayao's 1983 manga Shuna's Journey. 🧵 [1/9]

Arriety fanart for the soul
#ghibli #studioghibli #secretworldofarriety

A Studio Ghibli classic 🐈‍⬛

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

#animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation

The 4K/IMAX remastering of Ghibli films continues.
Coming soon to the US (one night only):
- "Whisper of The Heart" (April 21) gkids.com/films/whispe...
- "Arrietty" (May 19) gkids.com/films/the-se...

The cover of the March issue of Studio Ghibli's magazine Neppu, with an illustration by Anno Moyoco of a woman in a floral kimono

Studio Ghibli have released the March issue of their monthly magazine Neppu, with a feature on Princess Mononoke and coexistence with wild animals.

Upsets in both semi finals! My Neighbour Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service progress to the 2026 final!

While the connection between its different incarnations isn't quite as obvious as something like the susuwatari, Yakul stands out as one of the few recurring Ghibli characters. Yakul's apperances show the lasting importance of the ideas Miyazaki explored in the early 80s. [9/9]

When his son Goro later did adapt Earthsea, the film ended up borrowing various elements of its story and aesthetics from Shuna's Journey. That included giving the protagonist Arren a steed reminiscent of the Yakul creatures from the manga. [8/9]

When he was working on those other projects, Miyazaki was also interested in adapting Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea novels, but he was never given permission. He imagined his Earthsea adaptation would be something like Shuna's Journey. [7/9]

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ) was another of Miyazaki's early-1980s projects. A Yakul-like animal also features in the Nausicaä manga: a creature called Kest aids the Master of the Garden later in the story and can communicate with humans. [6/9]

It's not surprising that Princess Mononoke resembles Shuna's Journey, since Miyazaki began planning it at a similar time - though the earliest version of Princess Mononoke is quite unlike the film version. That was a period when he was working on many different ideas around the same time. [5/9]

Ashitaka has a few things in common with Shuna as a hero, and when he travels to the west just like Shuna, he too brings Yakul as his steed. We see that Yakul is agile and can swim, as well as being a loyal companion that refuses to leave Ashitaka even when injured. [4/9]

The Yakul in Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) - where it appears to be the name of the particular individual - is visually very similar to the ones in Shuna's Journey. It's supposed to be one of a fictional extinct species of serow, a woodland goat-antelope. [3/9]

Shuna's Journey (シュナの旅) is where we see the earliest appearance of a creature called "Yakul". The word is used as the name of a species of deer/ibex-like animal, one of which the protagonist rides during his adventure in a Central Asia-inspired mountainous setting. [2/9]

Ashitaka feeds his steed Yakul by hand in Princess Mononoke (1997)

Wearing his hood, Ashitaka rides his steed Yakul and nocks an arrow in Princess Mononoke (1997)

Shuna rides his steed in Shuna's Journey (1983)

Following Ged, Arren leads his steed in Tales from Earthsea (2006)

In today's #GhibliSpotlight thread, we have a look at Yakul (ヤックル), Ashitaka's memorable steed from Princess Mononoke, and its similar predecessors going all the way back to Miyazaki Hayao's 1983 manga Shuna's Journey. 🧵 [1/9]

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studio ghibli food collection ⊹
#art ┊ #pixelart ┊ #ドット絵

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