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Japanese Animation Powerhouse Studio Ghibli Makes History With Honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes; first time an honorary Palme d’Or has been given to a group
NewsWell, will you settle for French recognition
I'm also glad to see this happening while Miyazaki is still alive.
Great the Studio was recognized for it's legacy, and also that Goro Miyazaki highlighted the teams and supporters that have made these works possible - and these teams, organizations and individuals span the Anime industry as Ghibli have always relied on a complex mix of in-house, other studios (e.g. Madhouse, Production IG, 4C, Kyoto Animation etc) and Freelancers to make every movie
Another notable thing about this Cannes festival is that four of the shorts from the Ghibli Museum (and more recently the Ghibli Park) are being shown there. "Mei and the Kittenbus" was shown briefly in the US in 2006, but for the others, it's the first time they've been shown outside Japan:
This is actually a huge deal and I wish I'd known it sooner, lol. Trying to see specific shorts by going to the ghibli museum is essentially impossible. It's a massive pain.
You had me at Kittenbus
I'm still waiting for them to make Mei and the Kittenbus widely available .........
Well deserved, those films have been such a joy to so many
Well done Ghibli!
The world's best animators.
The world's best animators.
Certainly one of the best and a lot of that is down to Hayao Miyazaki's creativity.
However in the realm of anime alone there are other studios which are just as good: Kyoto Animation, Shaft and studio Orange to name but a few. They won't be as well known to the general public as Studio Ghibli but they do produce high quality shows and movies.
Technically speaking, doesn't Ghibli use the least amount of CGI in their productions relative to the studios you mentioned? I think creating animation frame by frame as opposed to on computers is what makes Ghibli's films very unique.
Ghibli use a lot of computer assistance in the production process - for some years now it's not been as hand drawn as many may think. There's also an increasing number of shots that are obviously CGI assisted (in the sense that they would be very difficult to draw by hand). That's not knocking Ghibli either, I love most of Hayao Miyazaki's movies.
To cite one recent example:
"But while much of “The Boy and the Heron” was illustrated with pencil and paint on paper, the movie — like virtually every modern anime film — makes extensive use of computer animation, including digital compositing and visual effects. The classical, naturalistic style of the film does not call attention to such techniques, though they were a fundamental part of its design and production. They’re most evident in small flourishes: the vibrant flicker of a flame, the swirling flight of an arrow."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/movies/anime-digital-animation.html
I love most of Hayao Miyazaki's movies
some of studio ghibili's best arent directed my Miyazaki. he certainly has a the lions share, but my favorite arent from Miyazaki; Whisper of the Heart, Grave of the Fireflies, Kaguya, Only Yesterday. I def absolutely love Porcco, Mononoke, Totoro, and Naussica
I'm going to have to give grave of the fireflies another shot. I remember hating it the first time I watched it. It doesn't help that it's continuously depressing but I just didn't like the main character
That's the point. He's a teenaged boy put into an extreme situation and his useless pride arguably caused their demise.
It's based on a semi autobiographical short story. The author lost his adoptive father due to the fire bombing, and a sister died of sickness and another of malnutrition. The main character is not a mature guy who knows what to do. It is meant to be an apology to the sister who died of malnutrition, and the author's attempt to address his failings, his mistakes, his selfishness, his guilt and his shame.
Viewed through that lens, it is a masterpiece. It stands alone even amongst Ghibli's celebrated ouerve.
That type of pride was one of the downfalls of the Empire of Japan in general, so it works as a metaphor for the wider conflict, too.
Yes! I appreciate this interpretation now that I'm older. I watched the film as a teenager and I could not empathize with why the main character wouldn't give up his pride if not for the sake of protecting his sister
Only Yesterday is a quiet masterpiece. I watched it when my daughter was going through a Ghibli phase and found myself thinking of scenes from the film six months later. I recently just purchased it.
Yeah I support anything that helps the immense workload on animators but still maintains the feel and quality of a 2D animated movie.
If you like frame by frame animation you'll probably fall in love with A silent voice. Liz and the blue bird might even look better, but it's probably boring for most people
Amazing film.
While they do lots of traditional animation, they were pioneers in integrating CGI with traditional. They just do it very well. Princess Mononoke had something like 5 minutes of shots that used CGI, back in 1997.
http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Princess_Mononoke_(computer_graphics)
Pioneers? In 1997??? Disney had been doing it for 11 years by then. They used it in every movie they made since the great mouse detective in 86.
I would argue that it is Isao Takahata's work at Studio Ghibli that deserves the plaudits concerning its creativity; Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, My Neighbours the Yamadas, The Tale of Princess Kaguya.
I'd scarcley imagine Miyazaki himself to say he bettered these productions considering his respect to Takahata.
Miyazaki is the household name but there's no argument that Studio Ghibli is more than just Miyazaki. I don't think going the other way around and saying Takahata deserves most of the credit is justified either. The studio has an exemplary body of work and honouring the studio as an entity is just desserts.
Not familiar with either of those studios (that's not a neg, I'm sure there are many others I have never heard of)
I will have a look. Thanks for the heads up... anything you would recommend for Kyoto animation and studio orange and shaft?
Studio Orange is well known for their masterful use of 3D CGI, particularly in Land of the Lustrous and Beastars.
Kyoto Animation is known for slice of life series for the most part. Sound! Euphonium is really damn good, especially if you enjoy band drama. Violet Evergarden is a spectacle and tearjerker. Nichijou has some of the most insane animation ever used for comedic effect, like this deer fight.
Thank you!
The most well known and accessible KyoAni work is probably A Silent Voice. Defo one of their best too.
Masterful is a bit of hyperbole.
I don't know what I just watched, but it was glorious!
Which movies do you recommend? Besides Akira and ghost in the shell of course
Patlabor 2 (its pretty self contained so you don't need to watch the first one)
Jin Roh
Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Paprika
Those are the ones that come to mind right now
Paprika is what Inception could only dream of being.
Call me crazy, and this is probably down to personal experience, but Inception captures that weird emptiness of dreams better than Paprika.
I understand that perspective. For me, Paprika captures well the often seamless pivots in style or substance of dreams that we would otherwise see as a non sequitur but in the moment seem to make (dream) logical sense.
Yeah, that’s fair. And just to be clear, I don’t think Paprika is bad at capturing dreams, it’s just that some scenes are almost too vivid if that makes sense. Like the transitions and transformations are too clear compared to my blurred memories of dreams.
Speaking of dream movies, I think Waking Life is the goat at capturing dreams. The anthological structure lends itself really well to dream logic. And the messy rotoscope animation captures the blur and empty atmosphere of dreams almost perfectly imo.
I have never heard of it. I'll have to check it out!
You mean that Incep-"His Subconscious is Militarized"-tion?
I wouldn't start with Paprika as far as Satoshi Kon goes. Start with Perfect Blue, followed by Millennium Actress.
True true though to be honest I put that up there because I just recently watched it again 😅
Your Name and Suzume are directed by Makoto Shinkai, check out his other works if you like those two.
Perfect Blue, Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress are directed by Satoshi Kon, he's a highly influential director.
Silent Voice and Violet Evergarden (a series at first but also has a movie) made by Kyoto Studio are beautiful movies.
If you want to watch action/adventure movies you can't go wrong with Sword of the Stranger and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
Angel's Egg if you want something more experimental.
At last Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosoda) and Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (Masaaki Yuasa) also come in mind as great movies with great directors behind.
Millennium Actress
This one was so amazing. I was hoping Miyazaki's last one, TBATH, would have had a similar theme where it was the celebration of such a historic career.
Great list though, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is amazing - one of my favorites for Halloween.
I tried Wolf Children and stopped when it insinuated home girl banged wolf - so campy, cringe, and cheesy.
The studios that I listed make series but they also make movies. Let's start with some of the best from Kyoto Animation for example:
A Silent Voice (movie)
Liz and the Blue Bird (movie) - this is a side story from the series Sound! Euphonium
Violet Evergarden (series plus two movies) - in fact somebody has just posted a 4 minute clip over in the /r/anime subreddit, if you don't mind spoilers from episode 7 then take a look: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cv2nkw/i_was_sure_there_was_no_god_but_if_there_is_one/
Hyouka (series)
With Studio Orange I'd highly recommend the series Land of the Lustrous, it's the first and still the only time that, IMO, CGI has been skillfully and beautifully used in anime. They also produced Beasters and Trigun Stampede which are also very nicely animated CGI shows.
Shaft are arguably most famous for the Monogatari Series, a brilliantly written and very creatively animated show - some people do though have a problem with the occasional perversions of the main character who is, not to put too fine a point on it, an unreliable narrator and tends to exaggerate ....... Another popular show from Shaft is Madoka Magica.
KyoAni <3
Shaft
These guys are the weirdest mf's in the anime industry. Everything they do feels like an acid trip.
Another one that does weird shit like them is Science Saru. I think they are extremely underrated as well. Their movie "Night is Short, Walk On Girl" is an absolute hidden gem of an anime movie.
Nah, they don't compete. Ghibli is in a league of their own here.
And yeah, that IS down to the directors, miyazaki as the prominent one, but also late Isao Takahata with films like grave of the fireflies.
A film like a silent voice is good, but it doesn't capture the same kind of qualities ghibli is and was able to do with these two.
I hear you, but honestly not exaggerating, I believe Miyazaki is the greatest animator of all time. Not even necessarily talking about his creativity, or his knack for story and characters (which are still some of the best), but just specifically talking about the actual art of making drawings look like they’re moving, I genuinely believe he is the most talented person to have ever mastered it. He has such an amazing sense of momentum and life, the perfect balance of realism and exaggeration, culminating in a distinct style that I could recognize from watching a few seconds of video. Obviously there’s a level of subjectivity here, but if you ask me I’ve literally never found anyone to match him in terms of sheer enjoyment from watching pictures move.
I'm sure you know this, but his Manga of Naussica is all drawn by him, definitely worth reading.
Absolutely, definitely a must read even for people who don’t normally read manga like me
Oh I agree that he's brilliant, I love most of his movies and have rewatched them a number of times over the years (and will continue to do so). It'll be a very sad day when he's no longer with us, I wish we could have him cloned. :)
If we ever get the technology, he’d be my vote for first clone for sure!
ONE OF
Deserved
Studio Ghibli earned its legendary status. Everything they released is a banger.
That's a bit hyperbolic.
Not really.
Have you watched Earwig and the Witch or Tales from Earthsea? Both are mediocre at best.
I loved Earthsea but that’s probably because I love Byzantine architecture lol
Earwig was charming, but Earthsea I don't think I'd actually count, which is definitely a cop out sort of answer but I mean it goes against almost everything the studio has stood for, for a long time. Almost as if he himself doesn't understand the content his father makes.
I dont think using Goro's works as strikes against Ghibli as a whole is too fair, though. He's improving, but most viewers know not to watch his content with the same expectation as they'd normally have.
Goro's films are still Ghibli films. There's no reason to exclude them unless you want to make a statement like "all Ghibli films are bangers".
“Noooo don’t list examples that serve as your point”
Oceans waves is bottom tear. imo TBATH was pretty mid as well. i dont think theyve put out a banger since Spirited. Howl's was all jumble fucked at the end. wind rises boring AF. Ponyo was much to do about nothing in terms of story. cute kids movie tho.
the boy and the heron was such a slog to sit through. i took my partner there fully expecting us to love it but one of our friends fell asleep and we all agreed it was beautiful animation wasted on a half baked story
Yeah like how the fuck did it make it through the story board panels without someone being like wait wait wait, wtf is this about ?
Sucks that you saying something is hyperbolic gets this reaction when it's very true.
Goro's work doesn't meet the same standard for many and I think that the above statement implicitly says "yeah but ignoring goro's work" which then no longer means "everything". So yeah. Hyperbolic.
Why honorary? This isn't a dig, I'm not familiar with how Cannes works.
Honorary in this case basically means that… you have such a large body of incredible films that even if you aren’t nominated for a film currently, we will give you an award for how amazing your body of work is.
It’s a big deal in the film business to win a legacy award like this, plenty of filmmakers can create a one hit wonder and never even come close to that level of success again.
This award from Cannes is acknowledgment of their incredible career.
They'll show 3 out of the 4 exclusive animated shorts from the ghibli's museum, for the first time outside of Japan. I saw one and it was awesome.
Though Miyazaki once announced his retirement
Once?
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My little nephew recently told me his teacher said she could never get into anime and personally didn't like it, the only exception was Studio Ghibli movies and he asked me why. I just responded by saying Studio Ghibli is very special.
If any animation studio is going to break precedence it's this one, so deserved!
I’m a big fan of Ghibli, but the world of anime is so vast that saying Ghibli is the only super special feels reductive. It’s definitely one of the best and most approachable, but everyone is mentioning studios like Kyoto Animation on here for a reason.
Yeah in the past I think this might have been more true, but Anime is definitely multi-genre now. We just need a list of "Animes without Anime tropes".
I think it just depends on the trope. The sexualization stuff is hard to deal with, but stuff like how comedy is handled can be internalized over exposure time.
Yeah the sex jokes/focus is probably the worst trope, but different people can put up with different stuff.
Spike Spiegal and Vincent battling it out on the Eiffel tower on mars. Spike pulls of a cig and realizes it's raining and tosses it. Nanomachines then start to appear as butterflies in Spike's vision. Incredible sequence. Not seen anything live action even close.
Ghibli though has a library of quality productions that is unprecedented. My thoughts at least.
Ghibli is the only super special. Kyoto animation are high quality, but it's still just more "young adult" fare.
Many congratulations to Studio Ghibli for their wonderful films.
Congrats ghibli, they deserve it! Shame animation isnt given the same respect as live action still, but this is a huge improvement.
I first couldn't parse how a dead Swedish politician was connected to Ghibli.
Japanese Animation Powerhouse Studio Ghibli well deserving studio. Their work seeing is such joy
And it's very well deserved. Just look at all the masterpiece films they've made. 100% deserving.
OP’s username is total r/rimjob_steve
More people need to watch Pom Poko
Deserved.
Love their films!
Well deserved and frankly long overdue.
Wow, so well deserved!
I used to think Ghibli was the Pixar of Japan, but it’s the other way around
Bellingham robbed
They’re really fun films to watch, but for at least two decades it was the same story completely refitted to a new set of characters. Palme D’or?
For Mononoke maybe
It’s for everything they have done. And it’s a well deserved recognition.
Curious how you figure that they're all the same story? Especially when so many of them are based off of books from a very diverse background of authors.
So Spirited Away is nothing at all like The Boy and the Heron, is that your position
Interesting response. He asked a question, and you set up a strawman in response. Even moved from "same story completely retrofitted to a new set of characters" to asking if "Spirited Away is nothing at all like The Boy and the Heron".
Weird how two movies by the same director and studio can't be described as having no similarities.
it’s the same premise in both films. supports my point clearly.
So the wind rises and the boy and the heron are the same story? That is your position?
My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies being released as a double feature on the same day hilariously destroys this idea that the films are all the same, or even all similar.
I was first exposed to Ghibli when Toonami did Month of Miyazaki and showed Nausicaä, Laputa, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke and even as a dumb kid I loved how they were all so different.
Make your argument, if you want, I was just pointing out how incoherent you were being.
It feels like they all follow a “young person gets separated from parents into mystical world, has to overcome challenges to reunite,” pattern since 2000 or so
Well watch more of them then because they don't.
I’d say it’s more like Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away, which is quite deliberate. It brings together Japanese mythology and British fantasy novels, Miyazaki’s biggest influences. And as he’s the wizard in the tower, that makes sense.
They have stylistic similarities but almost every Ghibli is very distinct.
France is a weeb country. now that 90's kids that grew up on club dorothé are older they can reward Ghibli all they want
Good. Their predecessors weren't rewarding Ghibli enough.
One hundred percent deserved. Their library is full of masterpieces. Love it when they get global recognition