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Don't know what Studio Ghibli is or what they have done? Well, Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio. The studio is primarily home to critically acclaimed animation directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata although projects are not limited to them alone. The Studio's films are very popular and widely praised in and outside of Japan.

Pre- Studio works: (Key works of either Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata or both which lead up to the creation of Studio Ghibli)
* Panda! Go Panda!
* Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro
* Chie the Brat
* Gauche the Cellist
* Lupin III TV
* World Masterpiece Theater
* Conan, The Boy of the Future
* Sherlock Hound
* Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Studio Ghibli Films:
* Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
* Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
* My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
* Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
* Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
* Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki)
* The Ocean Waves (Tomomi Mochizuki)
* Pom Poko (Isao Takahata)
* Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondou)
* Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
* My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata)
* Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
* The Cat Returns (Hiroyuki Morita)
* Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
* Tales from Earthsea (Goro Miyazaki)

Works in Progress:
* Ponyo on a Cliff (Hayao Miyazaki)

With that said, this is the place to talk and chat any and everything Studio Ghibli! What films you loved, favorite theme songs, favorite characters, ect. Please be respectful and let people hold their own opinions, not everyone has to think Studio Ghibli is a gift from God.

I haven't heard awesome things about Tales from Earthsea, not bad things but not great. Plenty of bloggers and critics are giving it slanted positive reviews for the sake of the director being Miyazaki's son and a Studio Ghibli film- the same thing was done for the last 2 PIXAR films. I'll still see it of course, and can't wait to see it.

My favorite Ghibli film is Grave of the Fireflies by far. The word 'masterpiece' doesn't mean a lot nowadays especially since that title is given, unjustly, to plenty an animated film- but Fireflies most definitely deserves the title over any other Ghibli work. I personally prefer Isao Takahata's work to Hayao Miyazaki's a lot of the time, although I'm a very big fan of Laputa: Castle in the Sky.

I'm an animation nerd so I try to stay on the up and up. But I often times fail. gonk

Yeah, I'm pretty positive Miyazaki had a hand in a animated Heidi which I believe falls under World Masterpiece Theater which was a pre-Studio Ghibli endeavor.

Grave of the Fire Flies hands down for me personally, although I love Laputa as well. As for Nausicaa, I just highly perfer the manga over the film.

SO MUCH AWESOME! scream

I am not ignoring you! I just, uh, answered in Kapow. xd

OMG I love Whisper of the Heart, it's so cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute. crying heart