Ghibli #1 Japan's proud animation production company "Studio Ghibli"

 The word "Ghibli" refers to the wind that blows over the Sahara Desert, and it is also the name of an Italian airplane. The name was chosen by director Hayao Miyazaki, who loves airplanes.

Studio Ghibli was established in 1984 following the success of the animated film "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind", and
has since produced many hit films, including "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Princess Mononoke".
Last year, in 2024, Studio Ghibli became the first Japanese company to be awarded the Palme d'Or Honorary Award at the Cannes Film Festival, alongside film director George Lucas, and this also made headlines in Japan.

In Japan, Studio Ghibli's works have long been popular anime, but in places like America, the stories were changed without permission, or the films were drastically shortened and shown without permission, and pirated copies were also circulating, so the reputation was not very good.

However, from around 2020, the films began to be popularized in each country's language for the whole world, and high-quality translated versions were released.

It seems that the interesting story, the emotions of the characters, and the way nature and the background are depicted are all highly regarded, and in particular, the detailed way in which both good and evil have their reasons seems to be gaining the sympathy of many people.

In particular, the work "Grave of the Fireflies", which deals with war, had a great impact on many people, and it has become a popular work that encourages people to think about the current times.

Incidentally, many of the Ghibli films have the Japanese syllabary "no" in their titles, such as "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" and "Princess Mononoke", and this is due to a superstition that "Ghibli films that have "no" in their titles will be a hit", which was proposed by the producer Toshio Suzuki.