r/ghibli

I was looking at this Totoro keychain set and saw this little fella and was curious what it’s from?

You’ve seen the Castle, coming up next is the Bathhouse! So excited about this design and can’t wait to share an update when it’s done!

I would love to do other Ghibli movies! Any recommendations for the next pin in this series?

Sean Flood @_snacksy on insta at Storyline Tattoo in Avondale, GA!
I just love the kodamas so much and how alive they look🥹

This is one of my favorite drawings.

These characters have my heart ! Loved drawing every one of em :)

I wanted to show off my first ever bleach job! I only ever paint/do anything crafty about 1.5x a year so I was absolutely terrified about how it would turn out the entire time, but I’ve been wanting to make something similar ever since I saw the Levi's x Mononoke collab (specifically the overalls fr 😫). I found a $4 jacket in case I messed up and bada bing bada boom! I hope y'all dig it :]

After someone asked what the paper theater kits were, and someone else replied to my reply saying to post some of the ones I've made, here are a couple! I have more photos of some of the other Ghibli ones I've made, but can't currently find them, so I will make another post later.

The Spirited Away one is the largest one I've made, the kit was a gift from my sister. The wooden one I made and gifted to Adam Savage of Mythbusters at my local fan convention a few years ago. He's a big Ghibli fan and has cosplayed as Totoro and No Face before at cons. I don't like the wooden kits, they are really fragile. But he loved it, so that's what counts. 😄 Amazon has some kits, I also have seen a few at Barnes and Noble, and I've also ordered some directly from Japan.

When I saw this iconic scene for the first time in Princess Mononoke, I laughed it off because of how out of place it felt and how San went from being cold hearted to immediately flustered.

But after rewatching the film, Ashitaka’s compliment took on a whole new meaning. Throughout the film, the animals hate San because she’s a human and the humans hate San because she’s an animal.

This caused San to isolate herself from others. Even her wolf mother Moro called her poor and ugly during Moro’s conversation with San. In other words, San truly hates herself because of her isolation and how she’s the same kind as the humans who bring destruction on her home.

So when Ashitaka calls her beautiful, he’s not catcalling her, he’s being genuine and San isn’t flustered, she’s shocked because it’s the first time someone ever complimented her appearance.

I hope you like it! This took way too long for me to finish, and you can tell i was losing steam with my colouring… i hate colouring 😖

Kiki’s delivery service has been a comforting movie to watch for us and we were so ecstatic when we were able to secure these artworks! the 2nd pic is the original animation cel, and seeing it in person really amazed me - how talented someone must be to create a movie out from collections of these individual drawings. Definitely made me gain another level of respect for Mr. Miyazaki and all the illustrators for their beautiful works that bring joy to all of us.

When Chihiro first gets to the top floor of the Bathhouse to meet Yubaba, there is a room with two identical doors. On the wall on top of them, there is what appears to be the coat of arms of the Bathhouse, with the kanji 油 (which normally means 'oil' but is used in the movie as a symbol of the Bathhouse) and Yubaba's bird clearly visible. So what does this mean?

I think the two doors represent the two sisters, Zeniba and Yubaba. It is a hint that Zeniba co-founded the Bathhouse with Yubaba. Another hint of this is that the first kanjis of the names Zeniba (銭婆) and Yubaba (湯婆婆) together form the word "baths" (銭湯).

But we know that Zeniba is not allowed to enter the Bathhouse. She had to resort to a trick to get in, and she got expelled when her trick was destroyed by Haku. So what's the logic behind this?

Here is the scenario that I came up with: Zeniba and Yubaba were once a single person. That person wanted to gain power over others, and to create the Bathhouse (which is basically the same thing in terms of what the Bathhouse represents in the movie). So, they made a contract with some unknown entity that granted them what they were looking for. BUT some precautions were taken so that they could not become too powerful. The person was to split themselves into two: one half would rule the Bathhouse, and the other would keep the magic seal with which the contract was signed. The seal represents the possibility of changing the terms of the contract, and gaining more power.

The greed and lust for power of the original person were inherited by Yubaba, the one ruling the Bathhouse. The other half, Zeniba, is what remains when all the passions of the original person are gone. That is why Zeniba is referred to as the older sister.

Zeniba is basically a bodhisattva: a person detached from all worldly things, looking at the world with only compassion. Meanwhile, the baby is the embodiment of Yubaba's worldly attachments, of her desire to protect what she has.

The reason why Zeniba is not allowed to enter the Bathhouse is that you need to be away from the world in order to be detached from everything. If she lived in the Bathhouse she would become greedy like Yubaba. So the door that represents Zeniba in the Bathhouse is a door that doesn't lead anywhere, it is just here for the sake of representation. Which is why Chihiro is instinctively drawn towards the other door.

I’ve had this movie collection for years, is this an official movie collection? It has the original voices of mei and satsuki when it was first recorded. It does not have boy and the heron. I don’t remember but I think my mother said she got it in Japan when she was still living there.