Reader’s Corner: Ultra Heaven (Vol. 1), Aria of the Beech Forest (Vol. 2), and Kiki’s Delivery Service Film Comic: All-in-One Edition

How do you not fall in love? How do you be a good bad guy? How do you learn to be a grown-up witch? And what exactly is the professor’s conjecture? All these questions and more are explored in the selections for this week’s Reader’s Corner, which also includes the first volume of a psychedelic… Read More Reader’s Corner: Ultra Heaven (Vol. 1), Aria of the Beech Forest (Vol. 2), and Kiki’s Delivery Service Film Comic: All-in-One Edition

Fanart Friday: Kiki’s Revenge and Mary (the Other Witch)

I revisited these lovely illustrations recently, which Popman3580 first posted around the time that Mary and the Witch’s Flower, now a kind of forgotten movie, came out—and it certainly makes sense with that film’s similarity to Ghibli fare and the director’s relationship with the studio. Thus, a virtually automatic comparison to Kiki should be drawn… Read More Fanart Friday: Kiki’s Revenge and Mary (the Other Witch)

Cosplay Beats! Kiki + Chihiro

Our resident cosplayer, Paris, returns—this time as Studio Ghibli’s incorrigible heroine, Kiki (Kiki’s Delivery Service)! She’s joined by V.Zelaya as another Ghibli favorite, Chihiro (Spirited Away) in a photoshoot by Jose Torres. Seems the duo got spirited away to a lovely field! We encourage you to subscribe to Paris’ individual accounts—on Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitch,… Read More Cosplay Beats! Kiki + Chihiro

My Neighbor Hayao: A Dreamy Collection of Miyazaki-Inspired Art

In 2017, Spoke Art opened an exhibition in its San Francisco gallery featuring pieces inspired by the works of acclaimed and Oscar-winning animator, Hayao Miyazaki. A success, they would repeat it in the following years, traveling the show to New York and then Los Angeles, showing hundreds of varied pieces with all this is common:… Read More My Neighbor Hayao: A Dreamy Collection of Miyazaki-Inspired Art