Virtually all the ingredients that have made Studio Ghibli movies so appealing around the world — a wide - eyed young protagonist, a freewheeling supernatural adventure and clean, colorful animation drawn by hand — combine to form the first feature from Studio Ponoc, a new independent Japanese anime company formed by Ghibli veterans to carry on the kind of high - quality animation of their former workplace. (variety.com)
Virtually all the ingredients that have made Studio Ghibli movies so appealing around the world — a wide - eyed young protagonist, a freewheeling supernatural adventure and clean, colorful animation drawn by hand — combine to form the first feature from Studio Ponoc, a new independent Japanese anime company formed by Ghibli veterans to carry on the -LSB-...] (variety.com)
Like most upstarting anime companies, the team at Ghibli were unaware of how their work would be received by the Japanese public, let alone the rest of the world. (moviemezzanine.com)