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  Maquia: Loss isn't Losing - A Spoiler-Filled Addendum - Duration: 5 minutes, 42 seconds.

  • 1 week ago
  • 9,241 views

  Loss is a central theme throughout Maquia's runtime - but despite being an absolute tearjerker, there's an optimism to the film. In this spoiler-filled video I explore how Okada and company balance...
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  Maquia & Mari - Duration: 11 minutes.

  • 1 week ago
  • 26,790 views

  Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms is prolific writer Mari Okada's directorial debut - and in many ways it feels like the film her entire career has been building towards. In this video I take...
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  Rilakkuma and Kaoru - A Bear For All Seasons (feat. Isla McTear) - Duration: 9 minutes, 12 seconds.

  • 1 month ago
  • 10,417 views

  Rilakkuma and Kaoru is a wonderful, warm show about the highs and lows of day-to-day life. Made in beautifully detailed stop motion, it's a show that subverts it's inherent oddness to focus on the ...

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  Neon Genesis Evangelion - Hope & Despair - Duration: 22 minutes.

  • 2 months ago
  • 90,915 views

  In 1995, director Hideaki Anno unleashed a show that would subvert expectations, enamour a nation and forever change the industry it was a part of. Twenty five years later, Neon Genesis Evangelion ...

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  1 0 0 0 0 0 - Duration: 99 seconds.

  • 2 months ago
  • 21,608 views

  Two and a half years ago I started a YouTube channel with zero expectations. Now, I have 100,000 reasons to be thankful.
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  Shinkai - Not Separation, But Connection - Duration: 15 minutes.

  • 3 months ago
  • 93,150 views

  Makoto Shinkai is one of the most interesting directors working in animation today, but it wasn't until 2016 where he truly grabbed the attention of the world with his record-breaking feature Your ...
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  Haibane Renmei - The Girl Who Fell to Old Home - Duration: 11 minutes.

  • 4 months ago
  • 37,368 views

  The work of Yoshitoshi ABe is at once comforting and haunting, melancholic yet hopeful, and this dichotomy is at the heart of Haibane Renmei - his doujin-turned-anime series about loss, love, and h...
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  Interstella 5555 - An Intergalactic Love Letter to Music - Duration: 5 minutes.

  • 5 months ago
  • 49,441 views

  Interstella 5555 is an anime film working as the video to an entire album - 2001's seminal 'Discovery'. Pitched by Daft Punk themselves to legendary anime creator Leiji Matsumoto, the multi-layered...

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• 11:16

  I Want to Eat Your Pancreas - The Fault in Her Guts - Duration: 11 minutes.

  • 6 months ago
  • 46,080 views

  Despite sounding like a zombie movie, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is a beautiful title that explores our relationship with death, life, and each other. Today on Beyond Ghibli I take a closer look ...
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  Berserk - More than Blood and Guts - Duration: 38 minutes.

  • 7 months ago
  • 207,255 views

  Berserk is a spectacular manga that has enjoyed thirty years of bloodthirsty beauty. Today on Beyond Ghibli I take an in-depth look at every facet of this fascinating franchise, and explain why it ...
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  What Mirai of the Future Owes to Mamoru Hosoda's Past - Duration: 11 minutes.

  • 8 months ago
  • 34,473 views

  Mirai of the Future isn't just the first anime feature outside of Studio Ghibli to earn an Oscar nomination - it's a film that serves as punctuation to director Mamoru Hosoda's entire career. In th...
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  Mary and the Witch's Flower - Life After Ghibli - Duration: 8 minutes, 43 seconds.

  • 9 months ago
  • 77,987 views

  in 2015, when things seemed grim for the future of Studio Ghibli, a group of veteran staffers left to form Studio Ponoc. Aiming to carry the spirit of Ghibli into the future, their bewitching debut...

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