NaDannMaGoGo
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Goodbye Ghibli.
Goodbye Ghibli.
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Ghibli production department facing shutdown, will take a break and consider future
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Fortinbras
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I wouldn't be surprised to see Lasseter trying to save Ghibli in some way.
irfaanator
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rest in peace
teruterubozu
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I can't find any other Japanese news source on this - you'd think this would be HUGE news.
Are the photos some kind of TV broadcast? A conference?
Locke Lamora
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A shame, especially since Marnie mostly got positive reviews. But Ghibli didn't manage to draw any attention on their movies which weren't directed by Miyazaki or Suzuki. Who knows the directors behind any Pixar movies? Hardly anyone as Pixar managed to direct the attention on the movies. I wish Ghibli would have managed to do the same.
SporeCrawler
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it is. the model doesnt work unless they can produce big hit movies in japan every year.
they have a large staff that is employed on a full time basis, which costs them 50 Million Dollars or something per year. Thats in labour costs alone. They need a 100 Million Dollar Movie every year or they cant sustain themselves. In japan only about 10 or so japanese produced movies have actually crossed that mark of which 50% or more are from ghibli.
Keyser Soze
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I have never watched one Ghibli release in my 30 years on this earth - I am a useless waste of space.
ShogunDarius
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so Ni No Kuni 2 is dead then?
Femmeworth
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You do not want this, don't say such things.
SporeCrawler
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from a japanese tv show. executive director toshio suzuki was interviewed.
The Smoking Bun
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So we are stuck with Disney's sterile, milquetoast, one note, princess crazy, diluted, safe, politically correct, merchandise friendly nonsense with the occasional flash of brilliance from Pixar or Dreamworks? Fuck!
Maybe I'm being unfair
I'm not sad. Eventually everything has to come to an end. Hayao Miyasaki is already pretty old and has reached a legendary status. If he leaves or just doesn't feel like making movies anymore, than that's that for the studio. You just can't continue without him. However, since there is still probably a lot of talent left, they are better off opening up a new Studio if they feel like continuing making Ghibli-esque movies.
The "Studio Ghibli", however, has done it's fair share in the world of japanese animation and has earned itself its well deserved spot in the history books, and that's nothing to be sad about. I'm very happy for their amazing, almost unmatched, decades long run!
The "Studio Ghibli", however, has done it's fair share in the world of japanese animation and has earned itself its well deserved spot in the history books, and that's nothing to be sad about. I'm very happy for their amazing, almost unmatched, decades long run!
pants
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Yeah, it's weird seeing people beg Ghibli to become the antithesis of what it is.
SporeCrawler
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TheRealTalker
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embrace the similar faced, musicals for everything, generically bland digital future
Shinigami no Mori
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Nooooooooo 
lordfuzzybutt
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Oh god, why..
Yep. "Even" english sites would report it. But I find nothing but this one blog.
HuskerDutheDu
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Help us Hulu!
Ummm. Ghibli is guilty of this too, you know.
Diprosalic
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yeah pretty strange.
I'm not saying the post-Miyazaki/Takahata Ghibli couldn't be great, it would just be totally different from the studio we know as Ghibli today.
Miyazaki and Takahata dominated the production of their movies so much that their work can't be replicated once they have left. That's why I felt their retirement was the end of what we think as "Ghibli".
People have to stop saying this. Disney is gonna destroy the name even further.
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Deleted member 17706
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He does say "take a small break" in the subtitles. I don't imagine Studio Ghibli will go away. It does look like they will shut down temporarily to evaluate how best to go forward without Miyazaki, though.
People at Ghibli wouldn't sell even if they tried. I have no problem with this, for me the studio was Hayao, Takahata and Suzuki and they are soon gone. Ghibli is all about great quality, but you can't keep doing what you are doing if your movies don't make money. Hayao is the only one who is assured box office draw. With $30M production budget + marketing budget you need to make good ROI or the risk isn't worth it. I rather see the animation side closed down then get watered down Ghibli films.
SporeCrawler
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Disney during Disney Renaissance was amazing. They had an amazing movie every year with handdrawn animations. Aladdin, Lion king, Pocahontas, Mulan, Hercules, Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notredamn, The Little Mermaid... how can anyone hate that
However they somehow just fell down a cliff in the 2000s and after that they never came back (Treasure Planet, Emperors new groove, Lilo^Stitch, Brother Bear were all meh in comparison to what they had before my opinion). Princess and the frog in 2009 was the first musical peace with traditional animation they did in ages. But then they abandoned that too and now they are doing 3D only (which is still better than nothing).
Mudron
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Really, with Miyazaki and Takahata (the two founders of the studio, aside from Toshio Suzuki) gone, Studio Ghibli would practically have to re-invent itself anyway, which wouldn't have been an *impossible* task, but would've been unfair to an entire generation of up-and-coming Ghibli animators who would've been stuck being unfairly compared to Miyazaki and Takahata's bodies of work.
I'm assuming the Ghibli museum will remain intact (it'll probably be the centerpiece of Ghibli's existence as a licensing entity now), so at least there will still be a physical representation of the studio's works out there in the world.
(Also, the documentary where Miyazaki briefly talks about Studio Ghibli's inevitable collapse is fucking fantastic - it's not super dramatic, just a fly-on-the-wall journal of Miyazaki frumping around while working on his last film, but it's a great peek into how things at the studio worked.)
I'm assuming the Ghibli museum will remain intact (it'll probably be the centerpiece of Ghibli's existence as a licensing entity now), so at least there will still be a physical representation of the studio's works out there in the world.
(Also, the documentary where Miyazaki briefly talks about Studio Ghibli's inevitable collapse is fucking fantastic - it's not super dramatic, just a fly-on-the-wall journal of Miyazaki frumping around while working on his last film, but it's a great peek into how things at the studio worked.)
alfredofroylan
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Some spanish sites arestarting to spread the news
http://www.lashorasperdidas.com/ind...lmente-su-andadura-como-estudio-de-animacion/
http://entretenimiento.terra.es/cin...bdfdaf39fac97410VgnVCM3000009af154d0RCRD.html
http://www.koi-nya.net/2014/08/03/studio-ghibli-cerrara-sus-puertas-como-estudio-de-anime/
Death Metalist
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Was going to make the same exact post, Damn sad. Now where do we look for amazing 2D animated moves?
No way man.
Like I said in the other thread, it's just a collection of people. There's bound to be another collection of people with similar talent again. Like a rock band, it's better to just let it end than keep it going as a shadow of it's former self.
The Smoking Bun
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If John Lasseter has any balls (I have my doubts) he would purchase Ghibli and turn it into an indie studio of sorts that would handle out-of-the-box, bold and risky animation projects backed by the money from the parents of bratty musical loving children.
I loved Frozen though, primarily because it was about sibling love. And Hans the Game of Thrones reject
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The "news" came from a documentary style show that just aired in Japan a few hours ago, which means it was recorded a while ago. The show's introduction even says the recording took place over 180 days.
SporeCrawler
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they are not closing down the production because they are bleeding money. they are just seeing that its not a sustainable business without the miyazaki hayao name. if they just use the ghibli studio name to administer the legacy IP that alone should be a good business for them, although in a smaller scale. ghibli goods are big in japan.
Marnie is just that. Its a Ghibli Fil but so un-miyazaki (aside of the fact that the protagonist is a young girl), yet so well made. So sad that it was burried in Japan.
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