In the wake of all the interest around this and a desire to better explain why the perpetual "Ghibli-ness" trend is harmful, I've compiled Kashi, a educational guide.

Kashi includes links to learn more about Orientalism, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, and Japanese culture.

kashi-info.carrd.co

If you're still here and want to support actual Japanese people, go donate to the Japanese American National Museum which is under attack by the federal government for not bending to its demands for the museum to rewrite the history it was founded to tell: www.janm.org/give

Those bombs which are foundational to Hayao Miyazaki's work that they are reducing to an asethetic. The longing for pastoral beauty in Miyazaki's work is tinged with heartache for a world that has changed because of violence.

When writing teams made entirely of people who look like and think like the people who bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and incarcerated all Japanese people in the US create fictionalized versions of a culture they tried to destroy, they are the colonizers plain and simple.

My favorite part is Whoops 😂