I made Calcifer last second with tissue paper and it turned out surprisingly cute 😂

This scene isn't in the books, but it does capture the general spirit of Nausicaä and how she helps others in the books (and the movie simply wouldn't have had time for all the events and peoples of the books).

It is just so beautiful. She's probably my favorite character from anything.

I’m working through watching all the Ghibli movies I haven’t see yet. I’m wondering what I should prioritize next! I included a picture of all the ones I’ve watched

Should I risk it and color/water color it?
Tried my best with the Japanese characters lol

Composed a waltz and made a compilation from The Wind Rises of Jiro and Nahoko moments. I love their tragic love story <3

I grew up with the songs "Soaring" and "I'm Gonna Fly"; do any of you know where or how I can obtain physical media of this?

As a child my local library had that version which I rented ~sooo~ often.

Since then, all I can find is the original music, which is great but not what I grew up with (the nostalgia).

Hey, everyone. I would appreciate if you check out my video of The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. This movie is so dear to me, and I made two video essays on it. This video touches more on the bitter side of a bittersweet story. Any feedback or comment you may have is welcome. Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUd1m5vSjv8

Had to do it ghibli

I know there are more important things in life, but this has been driving me up the wall, lol.

I used to have a burned cd with this cover track of the Mononoke Hime theme song. I absolutely don’t remember when or how I even got it, but it almost certaintly must have been from Limewire/Kazaa. Many many years later, I activiely tried to find this track again AND found it (on Youtube I think), but I've never been able to find it again. Modern Youtube searches are completely flooded with newer covers and the algorithm is just showing me the same tracks over and over again.

Here's everything I remember:

• It was almost certaintly sung by a native Japanese female vocalist (or she had a flawless accent).
• It was not in a classical/opera-style. In fact, I think the singer stayed in her chest voice the entire time, it was a bit sharp and powerful at times.
• It wasn’t an acoustic or acapella version, the instrumentation was almost the same as the original, though the arrangement was clearly different
• Instead of singing the verse and chorus once, then going into the “hmm hmmm” as most versions seem to do, this one repeated the chorus. Maybe it repeated the verse and the chorus, I can’t remember
• There were (female) backing vocals harmonizing in some parts and going “ah, ah, ah..." with a buildup before the vocalist repeated the song.
• It sounded professionally recorded, and I think this was before the YouTube days (or at least very early in the youtube days) so I suspect it came from an album rather than being a home recording.

I’ve been going through (Japanese) spotify tracks, and while there are tons of covers and tribute albums with this song, the exact cover I’m searching for remains a white whale…

If anyone knows anything, I am dying to find this track again. It’s haunting me now, lol. 

Edit to add: I just remembered that, in this version, the lyrics were slightly changed. In the original, they sing "omae no kokoro" and then "sonata no yokogao", but I THINK it was reversed in this cover. So "sonata no kokoro" and "omae no yokogao". Either that, or she uses "omae" in both cases.

So a good friend of mine I grew close to that I no longer really see any more was sweet enough to watch my cat while I was away at rehab for addiction for two months, for free. She left the money I set out behind and even made me a spread for my birthday, the day I returned. I came home to cake, candy, a coffee mug, a nice candle, a little bamboo plant. Iddn't she the best?! So I'm trying to do something special for her.

Well she loves studio Ghibli and her favorite movie is Howl's Moving Castle ... she even colors and sometimes styles her hair like Sophie. So I had this thought for a painting ...

Imagine real black feathers bordering a canvas, that look like wings encompassing it, in the subtle shape of a heart (tips at the bottom). At the bottom right corner is a fake LED stick candle, the flame of which is made out to look like Calcifer (I'll make it work). Painted on the canvas itself, ghibli-style, is a girl dressed all in form-fitting black clothes (my friend, who always wears black and ĺoves to paint) painting a picture of a candle, the light of which, from the candle she's painting, subtley illuminates her face, just as the candle outside of the painting subtley illuminates the room/art studio that is painted.

Surrounding her are cats (she has a lot of cats). In her hand she holds a paint palette that, looking closely, resembles the dial Howl uses to navigate the world from his castle. And ... that's it.

What do you think? How does it read to you on a symbolic level? I may or may not attach a real paintbrush to the painting, the tip of which attaches to Calcifer/the fake candle flame, at the angle the painter in the painting is painting their picture of a candle ... or do you think that's too much? I'm trying to indicate the candle being painted is the candle that illuminates the painting.

Hi everyone!

I'm recreating the restaurant street from Spirited Away as a 3D environment, and I'm trying to identify one of the signs before Chihiro's parents enter the restaurant and turn into pigs. (the yellow building next to first green one)

The first two characters look very much like 人肉 (human flesh/meat maybe?), but I can't identify the third one. It almost looks like an "X"-shaped character (maybe 父, 交, or something similar), but none of those make sense.

Does anyone know if this sign has ever been identified? Is it a real kanji/hanzi, an old Chinese variant, or simply stylized text?

Thanks!

the zany and lovable Laniakea doesnt know what type of creature she is, or if she is even real. She finds help from Glaucous the creature, Joy the creature, and Miss Mousey Mouse Church Mouse the Mouse.

featuring the wondrous nature of ohio, the luminous spectrum of kodak ektachrome super 8 film stock, and a brainwave swirling synthesizer based soundtrack

DESTROY ALL LEAFBLOWERS

I know this is probably a really long shot but no harm in trying, right? So a few years ago I saw an edit on tiktok of Nausicaä valley of the wind with an Andean song in the background. The intro had flutes is all I remember. I listened to the song for a while but have since forgotten almost everything about it. All I remember is I really liked it. There is most likely only one edit of nausicaä in existence with an andean song in the background. If anyone could help I would be so grateful this is driving me crazy