@ghibliotheque.bsky.social
Podcasts/books/events that leaf through libraries of the world's greatest animation studios. Hosted by Michael, Jake and Steph.
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New podcast!
A big chat with artist and filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu about Arco and all sorts: Dragon Ball Z, Marguerite Duras, the power of "the idea", the importance of routine, and the danger of living 'Instagram Lives'.
Strap in!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
A big chat with artist and filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu about Arco and all sorts: Dragon Ball Z, Marguerite Duras, the power of "the idea", the importance of routine, and the danger of living 'Instagram Lives'.
Strap in!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
January 14, 2026 at 10:26 AM
New podcast!
A big chat with artist and filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu about Arco and all sorts: Dragon Ball Z, Marguerite Duras, the power of "the idea", the importance of routine, and the danger of living 'Instagram Lives'.
Strap in!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
A big chat with artist and filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu about Arco and all sorts: Dragon Ball Z, Marguerite Duras, the power of "the idea", the importance of routine, and the danger of living 'Instagram Lives'.
Strap in!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
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Isao Takahata's epic transatlantic anime series 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (aka Marco) started its run on Japanese TV 50 years ago today.
It's still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, so I'm chuffed that I got to write a mini-essay on the series in our book Ghibliverse.
It's still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, so I'm chuffed that I got to write a mini-essay on the series in our book Ghibliverse.
January 4, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Isao Takahata's epic transatlantic anime series 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (aka Marco) started its run on Japanese TV 50 years ago today.
It's still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, so I'm chuffed that I got to write a mini-essay on the series in our book Ghibliverse.
It's still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, so I'm chuffed that I got to write a mini-essay on the series in our book Ghibliverse.
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The Wallace and Gromit exhibition at the Harris Museum in Preston is brilliant and free and finishes on the 4th!
Although... expect a queue! We had to wait for an hour to get in but it was more than worth it to see these icons of animation up close - and in Nick Park's hometown, too.
Although... expect a queue! We had to wait for an hour to get in but it was more than worth it to see these icons of animation up close - and in Nick Park's hometown, too.
January 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The Wallace and Gromit exhibition at the Harris Museum in Preston is brilliant and free and finishes on the 4th!
Although... expect a queue! We had to wait for an hour to get in but it was more than worth it to see these icons of animation up close - and in Nick Park's hometown, too.
Although... expect a queue! We had to wait for an hour to get in but it was more than worth it to see these icons of animation up close - and in Nick Park's hometown, too.
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Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki, still at it.
January 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki, still at it.
January 1, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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Dreaming that we get a proper UK release of this someday!
Layouts by Hayao Miyazaki for Anne of Green Gables (1979), dir. Isao Takahata, Nippon Animation
December 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Dreaming that we get a proper UK release of this someday!
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Cheers for reading my question out @ghibliotheque.bsky.social ; a great selection of shorts to add my crimbo limbo watchlist ✌🏼
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Cheers for reading my question out @ghibliotheque.bsky.social ; a great selection of shorts to add my crimbo limbo watchlist ✌🏼
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Amazing stat on @ghibliotheque.bsky.social - that Julia Donaldson is the best selling English language author in the world, even if you include the wizard stuff.
December 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Amazing stat on @ghibliotheque.bsky.social - that Julia Donaldson is the best selling English language author in the world, even if you include the wizard stuff.
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Cheeky pre-Christmas episode!
If The Snowman defined an era of animated festive telly, the Donaldson-Scheffler adaptations have ruled the last 15 years.
So here's a nice little chat with Axel Scheffler to mark the *thirteenth* of his collabs with Julia Donaldson making the leap to the screen.
If The Snowman defined an era of animated festive telly, the Donaldson-Scheffler adaptations have ruled the last 15 years.
So here's a nice little chat with Axel Scheffler to mark the *thirteenth* of his collabs with Julia Donaldson making the leap to the screen.
🎙️ BONUS EPISODE! 🎙️
With The Scarecrows' Wedding premiering on the BBC on Christmas Day, Michael speaks to Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale) about creating picture books for children, seeing his work adapted for television, and his fruitful partnership with Julia Donaldson.
With The Scarecrows' Wedding premiering on the BBC on Christmas Day, Michael speaks to Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale) about creating picture books for children, seeing his work adapted for television, and his fruitful partnership with Julia Donaldson.
December 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Cheeky pre-Christmas episode!
If The Snowman defined an era of animated festive telly, the Donaldson-Scheffler adaptations have ruled the last 15 years.
So here's a nice little chat with Axel Scheffler to mark the *thirteenth* of his collabs with Julia Donaldson making the leap to the screen.
If The Snowman defined an era of animated festive telly, the Donaldson-Scheffler adaptations have ruled the last 15 years.
So here's a nice little chat with Axel Scheffler to mark the *thirteenth* of his collabs with Julia Donaldson making the leap to the screen.
🎙️ BONUS EPISODE! 🎙️
With The Scarecrows' Wedding premiering on the BBC on Christmas Day, Michael speaks to Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale) about creating picture books for children, seeing his work adapted for television, and his fruitful partnership with Julia Donaldson.
With The Scarecrows' Wedding premiering on the BBC on Christmas Day, Michael speaks to Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale) about creating picture books for children, seeing his work adapted for television, and his fruitful partnership with Julia Donaldson.
December 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎙️ BONUS EPISODE! 🎙️
With The Scarecrows' Wedding premiering on the BBC on Christmas Day, Michael speaks to Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale) about creating picture books for children, seeing his work adapted for television, and his fruitful partnership with Julia Donaldson.
With The Scarecrows' Wedding premiering on the BBC on Christmas Day, Michael speaks to Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale) about creating picture books for children, seeing his work adapted for television, and his fruitful partnership with Julia Donaldson.
🎧 New episode! 🎧
It's time for another bloomin' episode of the Briggsonometry mini series...
This week, Michael, Jake and Steph have picked up their red fur snowsuits from the dry cleaners and hopped aboard the Ghibliotheque sleigh to go for the Big One, Father Christmas! 🎅
It's time for another bloomin' episode of the Briggsonometry mini series...
This week, Michael, Jake and Steph have picked up their red fur snowsuits from the dry cleaners and hopped aboard the Ghibliotheque sleigh to go for the Big One, Father Christmas! 🎅
December 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🎧 New episode! 🎧
It's time for another bloomin' episode of the Briggsonometry mini series...
This week, Michael, Jake and Steph have picked up their red fur snowsuits from the dry cleaners and hopped aboard the Ghibliotheque sleigh to go for the Big One, Father Christmas! 🎅
It's time for another bloomin' episode of the Briggsonometry mini series...
This week, Michael, Jake and Steph have picked up their red fur snowsuits from the dry cleaners and hopped aboard the Ghibliotheque sleigh to go for the Big One, Father Christmas! 🎅
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I'm in the latest issue of Empire Magazine with a lil news feature on blockbuster anime and the box office success of DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY CASTLE and CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE: REZE ARC.
What a treat to make sense of this moment and dig beyond the headlines for the Empire readers.
What a treat to make sense of this moment and dig beyond the headlines for the Empire readers.
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm in the latest issue of Empire Magazine with a lil news feature on blockbuster anime and the box office success of DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY CASTLE and CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE: REZE ARC.
What a treat to make sense of this moment and dig beyond the headlines for the Empire readers.
What a treat to make sense of this moment and dig beyond the headlines for the Empire readers.
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New episode of The Anime Business! Final episode of 2025!
Helen McCarthy (@glider.bsky.social) on Discovering Anime, UK Fandom and the Joy of It All!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdEM...
Helen McCarthy (@glider.bsky.social) on Discovering Anime, UK Fandom and the Joy of It All!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdEM...
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New episode of The Anime Business! Final episode of 2025!
Helen McCarthy (@glider.bsky.social) on Discovering Anime, UK Fandom and the Joy of It All!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdEM...
Helen McCarthy (@glider.bsky.social) on Discovering Anime, UK Fandom and the Joy of It All!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdEM...
📬 THE MAILBAG IS OPEN! 📬
We're recording our Christmas pod this week and we would love to hear from you!
Send us your questions, thoughts, reflections on anything from Ghibli to Raymond Briggs to world animation.
Drop us a line at ghibliotheque@gmail.com or comment below! 💌
We're recording our Christmas pod this week and we would love to hear from you!
Send us your questions, thoughts, reflections on anything from Ghibli to Raymond Briggs to world animation.
Drop us a line at ghibliotheque@gmail.com or comment below! 💌
December 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
📬 THE MAILBAG IS OPEN! 📬
We're recording our Christmas pod this week and we would love to hear from you!
Send us your questions, thoughts, reflections on anything from Ghibli to Raymond Briggs to world animation.
Drop us a line at ghibliotheque@gmail.com or comment below! 💌
We're recording our Christmas pod this week and we would love to hear from you!
Send us your questions, thoughts, reflections on anything from Ghibli to Raymond Briggs to world animation.
Drop us a line at ghibliotheque@gmail.com or comment below! 💌
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📽️💣 NEW EPISODE! 💣📽️
Brace yourselves! Our Briggsonometry miniseries continues this week with the harrowing, blackly comic nuclear satire, WHEN THE WIND BLOWS.
🎧 Find us wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧
Brace yourselves! Our Briggsonometry miniseries continues this week with the harrowing, blackly comic nuclear satire, WHEN THE WIND BLOWS.
🎧 Find us wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧
December 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
📽️💣 NEW EPISODE! 💣📽️
Brace yourselves! Our Briggsonometry miniseries continues this week with the harrowing, blackly comic nuclear satire, WHEN THE WIND BLOWS.
🎧 Find us wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧
Brace yourselves! Our Briggsonometry miniseries continues this week with the harrowing, blackly comic nuclear satire, WHEN THE WIND BLOWS.
🎧 Find us wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧
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Listening to the latest @ghibliotheque.bsky.social ep about When The Wind Blows. I totally agree, I can hear the Wallace and Gromit theme tune playing (bleakly).
First time watching When The Wind Blows last night. It felt like early Ghibli films with Colonel Blimp, and heavy on the Wallace and Gromit. Incredible distillation of Englishness. Watched with @famishedforblonds.bsky.social @geologydisco.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Listening to the latest @ghibliotheque.bsky.social ep about When The Wind Blows. I totally agree, I can hear the Wallace and Gromit theme tune playing (bleakly).
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More Ghibli 4K restorations and IMAX releases to come! Hope we get them over here... deadline.com/2025/12/imax...
Studio Ghibli 4K Restorations To Debut In Imax As Large Format Exhibitor Teams With GKids
Imax and GKids are partnering to bring new 4K restorations of Studio Ghibli titles to Imax screens in 2026.
deadline.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
More Ghibli 4K restorations and IMAX releases to come! Hope we get them over here... deadline.com/2025/12/imax...
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According to this article I found in the Christmas TV Times from 1982, THE SNOWMAN was initially going to play in cinemas alongside E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL - but Steven Spielberg thought the films were too similar.
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
According to this article I found in the Christmas TV Times from 1982, THE SNOWMAN was initially going to play in cinemas alongside E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL - but Steven Spielberg thought the films were too similar.
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🎙️ New Episode! 🎙️
We're walking through the airwaves! @ghibliotheque.bsky.social has returned with a festively fused new season exploring the adapted works of Raymond Briggs, beginning here with perenial TV favourite: The Snowman. ⛄
🎧 Now available wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧
We're walking through the airwaves! @ghibliotheque.bsky.social has returned with a festively fused new season exploring the adapted works of Raymond Briggs, beginning here with perenial TV favourite: The Snowman. ⛄
🎧 Now available wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🎙️ New Episode! 🎙️
We're walking through the airwaves! @ghibliotheque.bsky.social has returned with a festively fused new season exploring the adapted works of Raymond Briggs, beginning here with perenial TV favourite: The Snowman. ⛄
🎧 Now available wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧
We're walking through the airwaves! @ghibliotheque.bsky.social has returned with a festively fused new season exploring the adapted works of Raymond Briggs, beginning here with perenial TV favourite: The Snowman. ⛄
🎧 Now available wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧
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Another year of excellent podcasts @ghibliotheque.bsky.social @disniversity.bsky.social @supermariomoment.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Another year of excellent podcasts @ghibliotheque.bsky.social @disniversity.bsky.social @supermariomoment.bsky.social
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It was a fab party for a fab book. You can buy The Animation Atlas anywhere so please support your local indie bookshop or bookshop.org.uk - the online platform that lets a percentage from your purchases support your chosen bookshop.
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It was a fab party for a fab book. You can buy The Animation Atlas anywhere so please support your local indie bookshop or bookshop.org.uk - the online platform that lets a percentage from your purchases support your chosen bookshop.
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Earlier this week... We launched a book! 📚
Such a treat to bring together a mezzanine full of pals and loved ones to mark the release of the new @ghibliotheque.bsky.social book, The Animation Atlas.
Such a treat to bring together a mezzanine full of pals and loved ones to mark the release of the new @ghibliotheque.bsky.social book, The Animation Atlas.
November 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Earlier this week... We launched a book! 📚
Such a treat to bring together a mezzanine full of pals and loved ones to mark the release of the new @ghibliotheque.bsky.social book, The Animation Atlas.
Such a treat to bring together a mezzanine full of pals and loved ones to mark the release of the new @ghibliotheque.bsky.social book, The Animation Atlas.
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📚 Our new book is out today! 📚
The Animation Atlas, our round-the-world trip through the global history of animation, is now available from all good bookshops!
The Animation Atlas, our round-the-world trip through the global history of animation, is now available from all good bookshops!
October 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📚 Our new book is out today! 📚
The Animation Atlas, our round-the-world trip through the global history of animation, is now available from all good bookshops!
The Animation Atlas, our round-the-world trip through the global history of animation, is now available from all good bookshops!
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It’s taken a couple of years, but I have now watched every film in @ghibliotheque.bsky.social Anime Movie Guide. Some if seen before, some were first time watches. My favourites were Akira, Belle, Millennium Actress, Mind Game and Your Name, but really there’s no bad film on the list.
September 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It’s taken a couple of years, but I have now watched every film in @ghibliotheque.bsky.social Anime Movie Guide. Some if seen before, some were first time watches. My favourites were Akira, Belle, Millennium Actress, Mind Game and Your Name, but really there’s no bad film on the list.