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@ghiblitavern.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:27 PM

Today for #GhibliSpotlight, we're taking a look at Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (巨神兵東京に現わる). This short tokusatsu film, based on the backstory of Nausicaä, was directed by Higuchi Shinji and was first shown at an exhibition on 10 July 2012. 🧵

A God Warrior floats above a neighbourhood in Tokyo with its limbs spread out

A God Warrior with shining wings looms beyond the torii at a shrine

A God Warrior marches through Tokyo, destroying buildings

Several God Warriors march through a scene of fire and destruction, recreating a famous moment from the original Nausicaä film

@ghiblitavern.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:18 PM

Let's look into From Up on Poppy Hill (コクリコ坂から) this week for #GhibliSpotlight! Based on a shojo manga from the 1980s, this was Miyazaki Goro's second time directing a feature film. It was first released in Japan on 16 July 2011. 🧵

A red-and-white boat sits at a dock in Yokohama

Umi visits the Quartier Latin clubhouse, walking up the stairs past busy rooms

With a croquette in his mouth, Shun stops his bicycle in the street to offer one to Umi

Shun reaches up to take Umi's hand as other students watch in excitement

@ghiblitavern.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 3:39 PM

This week, #GhibliSpotlight is checking out the two most recent short films from the Ghibli Museum's Saturn Theater! They are 2011's Treasure Hunting (たからさがし) and 2018's Boro the Caterpillar (毛虫のボロ). 🧵

Next to the Japanese title for Treasure Hunting, a boy runs towards a stick in the grass

The boy and the rabbit race each other across the fields, pushing right up to one another

The newborn Boro sits on a magnified leaf

Many caterpillars like Boro munch through leaves on a plant

@ghiblitavern.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 4:39 PM

If you've been in Japan, you might have seen seemingly random DVDs mentioning Ghibli on the cover. As we see in #GhibliSpotlight today, the studio uses labels like Ghibli ga Ippai Collection and a few others for distributing their films, pre-Ghibli works and much more. 🧵

A Ghibli Park exhibition display of many Ghibli products, including posters of The Wind Rises, The Tale of Princess Kaguya and When Marnie Was there surrounded by DVDs, vinyl records, etc

Ghibli Museum Library DVDs, including Panda! Go, Panda! and several animated works from outside Japan

An official Studio Ghibli VHS boxset containing every film from Nausicaa to Princess Mononoke and a trailer collection

A DVD of the NHK documentary programme Furusato no Densho

@ghiblitavern.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 4:23 PM

The surprisingly topical subject for this week's #GhibliSpotlight is the Ni no Kuni (二ノ国) video game series, which began as a collaboration between Studio Ghibli and game developer Level-5. The first game came out in 2010, and was later followed by sequels and spinoffs. 🧵

Promo image for the original Ni no Kuni, showing Oliver and the fairy Shizuku in front of an open spell book

Gameplay screenshot from Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, showing Oliver and Shizuku speaking to somebody in a forest

Promo image for Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, showing Roland and Evan looking out over a dramatic cityscape

Screenshot from the Ni no Kuni film, showing Yu and Haru on the ground at a market

@ghiblitavern.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 4:35 PM

Today in #GhibliSpotlight, let's return to the Ghibli Museum and look at another two of the museum's exclusive short films. This time it's a tasty pair released in 2010: A Sumo Wrestler's Tail (ちゅうずもう) and Mr Dough and the Egg Princess (パン種とタマゴ姫)! 🧵 [1/9]