If you’re planning a trip to Japan soon, you’ll have a better chance of seeing A Night in the Valley of Witches. Studio Ghibli is world-famous for its feature-length anime movies, but what a lot of fans don’t know is that the studio has a roster of animated shorts that are just as captivating.
Totoro and the Catbus are ready to help you get started on wishing for good luck and happiness even before we get to nengajo season. Japan doesn’t really do Christmas cards, but the country does have a custom of New Year’s cards, or nengajo, as they’re called in Japanese.
Zen and Ghibli map also makes for a beautiful mini poster. Unlike most other major cities in Japan, Kyoto doesn’t have a dense network of train and subway lines crisscrossing it.
Beloved anime movie characters are perfectly placed for wiggle-toe animation. The cosy season has finally arrived in Japan, and here to herald its arrival is Studio Ghibli, with a duo of brand new blanket socks.
All the details on how to collect the stamps and get the commemorative prize. Japan has a knack for tapping into the human spirit and understanding what nourishes us as a species.
Finished with a Totoro netsuke that combines anime charm with centuries of Japanese tradition. Whenever you think of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro, the titular grey giant will likely come looming into your mind’s eye.
Ghibli’s partnership with Japanese stationery brand Rollbahn expands to include three more theatrical anime. In the digital age, you don’t actually need to write by hand in order to put your thoughts into readable words, but many will say that nothing gets the creative juices flowing quite like putting pen to paper.
Why build a bear when you could build a Totoro? I don’t think it’s really going out on a limb to speculate that “people who want to visit Japan’s Studio Ghibli anime theme park” and “people who want to hug Totoro” are two groups with a whole lot of overlap.
If you’ve got Totoro in your Ghibli-loving heart, why not have him on your lap too? Now that we’re past the fall equinox, we’ve got increasingly long nights and chilly weather on the temporal horizon.
Three ways to deal with uncomfortably dry weather while also letting you go “Ahhhh! Isn’t Totoro/Calcifer/Jiji cute?” Japan has a love/hate relationship with humidity.
Fireless fire spirit is ready to provide the cozy glows of the Ghibli anime film. For some Studio Ghibli characters, the marketing potential is obvious. Totoro, for example, is so invitingly cuddly-looking that making soft plushies of him feels like the most natural possible extension of his on-screen persona.
