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Princess Mononoke was going to look totally different, new Studio Ghibli artbook shows

• Casey Baseel
  3 days ago
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Art collection includes never-before-shown illustrations from Hayao Miyazaki’s vision for a feudal-Japan version of Beauty and the Beast.

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• (anime • art • Beauty and the Beast • books • Hayao Miyazaki • Hayao Miyazaki Image Board Collection • illustration • manga • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli)

Don’t judge this Kiki’s Delivery Service book by its cover, because it’s not actually a book!

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 4, 2026

Studio Ghibli pseudo-literature isn’t for reading, but is still something fans will want on their shelf.

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• (anime • books • clever • Donguri Closet • Donguri Kyowakoku • interior • Kiki's Delivery Service • manga • Studio Ghibli)

New official Ghibli anime food cookbook will teach you how to make Ponyo’s ramen and more

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2026

Newest volume in Ghibli cookbook series is packed with easy-to-make recipes for fans of the anime film.

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• (anime • books • cookbooks • cooking • food • Ghibli food • Ghibli's Table • Ponyo • Ponyo ramen • ramen • Studio Ghibli)

Hayao Miyazaki’s Whisper of the Heart concept art revealed in new Ghibli illustration book

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2026

Image Board Collection series turns spotlight on two classic Studio Ghibli anime.

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• (anime • art • books • Hayao Miyazaki • illustration • manga • Miyazaki Hayao Image Board Collection • On Your Mark • Studio Ghibli • whisper of the heart)

Studio Ghibli unveils new Rollbahn notebook in honour of Howl’s Moving Castle

• Oona McGee
  Mar 21, 2026

Anime castle steps into the spotlight with a new release that will delight Japanese stationery enthusiasts.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • books • cool • Donguri Kyowakoku • Howl's Moving Castle • Japanese stationery • manga • notebooks • Rollbahn • stationery • Studio Ghibli)

Expo 2025 mascot Myaku-Myaku to release tastefully erotic photo book

• Master Blaster
  Mar 19, 2026

Myaku-Myaku, you’re such a tease.

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• (2025 Osaka World Expo • books • COK • cute • Felissimo • funny • gravure • Mascots • Myaku-Myaku • photography • weird)

This quiet forest cafe in Japan lets you read all day in the house of a famous author

• Elliot Hale
  Jan 8, 2026

Novelist Osamu Dazai’s relocated house now invites visitors in to drink coffee, and disappear into books.

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• (books • cafes • COK • drinks • food • gallery • Japan travel • Japanese literature • literature • Oita • Osamu Dazai • reading • restaurants • SNJO • tourism • travel • Yufuin)

Instagrammable library in Japan shelters the local community with forests of books

• Oona McGee
  Nov 20, 2025

Relax and unwind inside this aesthetically pleasing haven. 

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• Japan
• (architecture • books • communities • community • cool • Instagram • Instagrammable • libraries • library • reading • SNJO • social media • Tochigi • Tochigi Prefecture • tourist sites • travel)

JR Hokkaido train driver in trouble for reading book about trains on stopped train

• Master Blaster
  Oct 14, 2025

Employee accused of not being devoted enough to his work.

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• (books • Hokkaido • JR Hokkaido • Otaru Station • reading • train drivers • trains)

New English textbook published for anime industry’s Animator Skill Test

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2025

NAFCA text covers the skills, both in drawing and speaking Japanese, that you’ll need to start an anime artist career in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Animator Skill Test • anime • art • books • foreigners in Japan • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • manga • NAFCA • Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association)

Here’s the Studio Ghibli cookbook recipe to make Lin’s Spirited Away sweets she gave to Chihiro

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 2, 2025

A super-easy way to transport your taste buds to the bathhouse of the gods.

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• (anime • books • cookbooks • cooking • food • Ghibli food • Ghibli's Table • manga • recipe • Shufu no Tomo • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

Children’s books about hybrid mouse-bread thief celebrates 5th anniversary with huge event

• Master Blaster
  Jul 22, 2025

If bread theft is wrong, then baby, I don’t wanna be right.

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• (books • Bread Thief • children's books • events • Keiko Shibata • Pan Dorobo • Shibuya • Tokyo)

The Hayao Miyazaki anime we never got – New art book reveals Ghibli legend’s unrealized concepts

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 28, 2025

Latest volume in Hayao Miyazaki Image Board Series traces the pre-history of Nausicaa, with over 50 never-before-seen Hayao Miyazaki illustrations.

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• (anime • art books • books • COK • Hayao Miyazaki • Hayao Miyazaki Image Board Series • manga • Nausicaa of the Valey of the Wind • Studio Ghibli)

McDonald’s Japan’s Very Hungry Caterpillar Happy Meal toys are very cute【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 15, 2025

Classic children’s literature star takes big appetite to McDonald’s.

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• (books • COK • cute • fast food • food • Happy Meal • Happy Set • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • SNJO • toys • Very Hungry Caterpillar)

Official Spirited Away cookbook teaches how to make food from the Ghibli anime classic

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 14, 2025

From Haku’s rice ball to cursed chicken and charred newt cookies, this book will show you how to make Spirited Away’s fantastic fantasy fare.

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• (anime • books • cookbooks • cooking • food • Ghibli food • Ghibli's Table • manga • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

Grow your own balcony rice balls with this new how-to book

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 6, 2025

With 30 seeds and 180 days of patience, you too can also eat rice from a bucket.

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• Japan
• (agriculture • book • books • bucket rice • COK • farming • food • gardening • rice • rice ball • rice farming)

Manga predicting a major disaster this July affecting summer tourism numbers

• Master Blaster
  Apr 30, 2025

Flights to/from Hong Kong affected by predictions on both ends of the routes.

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• (books • COK • earthquakes • Great East Japan Earthquake • Hong Kong • manga • predictions • Ryo Tatsuki • The Future I Saw • travel • Watashi ga Mita Mirai • weird)

Brand-new Anne of Green Gables anime adaptation reveals preview video, premiere date【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2025

One of Japan’s favorite coming of age stories is coming back with an all-new anime series.

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• Japan
• (anime • Anne of Green Gables • Anne Shirley • books • manga • video • World Masterpiece Theater)

Book of over 200 Hayao Miyazaki Totoro pre-production illustrations, some never published, now on sale

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2025

Studio Ghibli co-founder was sketching Totoro a decade before the forest spirit appeared on movie screens.

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• (anime • art • books • Hayao Miyazaki • Hayao Miyazaki Image Board Series • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Totoro)

Kiki’s Deliver Service heroine gets new design from Spy x Family artist for 40th anniversary

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 8, 2025

Tatsuya Endo moved to tears as he revisits book he read as a boy.

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• (anime • books • Kiki's Delivery Service • manga • Spy x Family)

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