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Even more Chibi San on wolf.

I did try and make Kodama's with bobble heads for this, but wasn't possible at this scale. To get a pleasing wobble, the connection would be too fragile.






Right side of chibi San on wolf.
Rear left of chibi San on wolf.
High angle of the Princess Mononoke diorama with 3 Kodama in the trees.
Front view of the Princess Mononoke diorama with chibi San on a white wolf.

📻 ■ ¡Black Friday Alert! La edición definitiva de 'Conan, el niño del futuro' al 50% ■ La primera serie de Miyazaki como director en una edición espectacular y a un precio irrepetible.
https://los40.com/2025/11/21/black-friday-alert-la-edicion-definitiva-de-conan-el-nino-del-futuro-al-50/?int=MASTODON_WORLD

Conan: El Niño del Futuro / Selecta Vision

"Studio Ghibli, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop training Sora 2 on their content

Japanese animators want their work left alone.

The trade group called the Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) released a statement this week, stating that it had submitted a request to OpenAI at the behest of its member companies.

(…) CODA requested that OpenAI stop using the art of Japanese animation companies without permission"

https://mashable.com/article/studio-ghibli-square-enix-openai-sora-content

I don’t know why I bother working with the Movie Database. Their rules are so fucking rigid they won’t allow Miyazaki’s short film "On Your Mark" to have an entry on there because it’s also a music video but not a music video with extended footage that was released at a festival. That’s a completely asinine and weirdly specific set of criteria that’s causing a significant Miyazaki work to be erased from the site.

Finished reading Kiki's Delivery Service. It's a completely different experience from Hayao Miyazaki's film adaptation, but each version is charming on its own merits.

The beginning of the story is nearly the same in both versions, but after that, they each take their own path. Eiko Kadono's original novel is more of a collection of vignettes in Kiki's life, with most of the scenes not even found in the Ghibli film. Miyazaki took some moments and characters from the book and reworked them into a completely new story, with many things not found in the novel.

I am now curious, though, if there are any easter eggs referencing unused parts of the book in the film. I'll have to look carefully the next time I watch it!

Anyway, if you like Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service (it's still my favorite Ghibli film, now having read the original), check …

Almost halfway through reading Kiki's Delivery Service, and already it's interesting to see what Hayao Miyazaki kept, changed, reworked, and omitted for his film adaptation of it. Jiji is still a wisecracker, though!

The Village Beyond the Mist: this classic by Sachiko Kashiwaba (trans Avery Fischer Udagawa), illustrated by Miho Stake, is the inspiration behind Ghibli's wonderful Spirited Away film.

Published by Restless Books.

A copy of The Village Beyond the Mist, showing a young girl floating in a forest, held up outside the Edinburgh Bookshop