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This beau­ti­ful video imag­ines Stu­dio Ghi­b­li char­ac­ters IRL

04 Nov 2016

See your favourite ani­mé char­ac­ters as they might appear in real-world settings.

This delight­ful short film takes some of our favourite char­ac­ters from the world of Stu­dio Ghi­b­li and super­im­pos­es them onto every­day back­grounds in Japan. From nar­row back­streets to vast open plains, snap­shots from clas­sic films like Nau­si­caä of the Val­ley of Wind and Princess Mononoke are brought into real life.

Lit­tle Ponyo runs across the water in Hiroshi­ma bay where the icon­ic Itsukushi­ma Shrine stands. We see Howl’s mov­ing cas­tle fly­ing through the clouds and Totoro with Sat­su­ki and Mei doing yoga next to Turnip-head in the park. The mak­er of the film, Kojer, has even giv­en the back­grounds an added sheen of pink light­ing or windy sound effects to encap­su­late the often nos­tal­gic atmos­phere these films. And to top it off, the video is set to One Summer’sDay’, the beau­ti­ful theme song to Spir­it­ed Away.

By tak­ing these ani­mé char­ac­ters out of their orig­i­nal set­tings and reimag­in­ing them in real-world ones, it’s almost as if they’ve been brought home. We cer­tain­ly wouldn’t mind run­ning into Chi­hi­ro and No-face on the morn­ing commute!

Also, check out the below mak­ing-of video which shows the amaz­ing crafts­man­ship that went into cre­at­ing the film.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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