![]() ![]() This same reappraisal has not been afforded to Tales from Earthsea (Goro Miyazaki, 2006), and sixteen years after its release the film remains the black sheep of the Ghibli oeuvre. Even 2004’s Howl’s Moving Castle (Miyazaki), which garnered mixed reviews on release, is now considered by some to be the studio’s defining and popular work. The work of Hayao Miyazaki, a founder of the studio, was compared to Walt Disney by Western critics such as The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, and the Ghibli name came to be associated with prestige animation since Spirited Away’s (Miyazaki, 2001) Academy Award win in 2003. ![]() The studio up until this point had, for a twenty-year period, only released films to an overwhelmingly positive reception. ![]() They concern the adaptation of her Earthsea book series by the lauded anime makers Studio Ghibli. ![]() These statements open a blog post written by the beloved fantasy author Ursula K. Don’t ask the book’s author “Why did they. Very few authors have any control over the use made of their books by a film studio. ![]()
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