Just as visionary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki wins awards for his latest feature animation The Boy and the Heron (2023), Imo and James decide to conduct a curated retrospective of the Studio Ghibli canon. 

Picking their favourites from the director’s oeuvre (and yes, it’s our own subjective choices!), the anime addicts discuss their first steps into the magical world(s) of Miyazaki.

They explore the now classic Ghibli themes of childhood, environmentalism, metaphysics, and love in a feature film from the last few decades: My Neighbour Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), and Arrietty (2010).

What is the spirit of Miyazaki? And do they think it will be conjured up again in his next animated movie? 

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