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End of an Era

In 2013, shortly after the release of Kaze tachinu(The Wind Rises), legendary anime director and Studio Ghibli co-founder Miyazaki Hayao stunned fans with the news that he was retiring from making feature films. A year later, Ghibli announced that it was disbanding its production department following the release of one final film, Omoide no Mānī (When Marnie Was There), directed by Yonebayashi Hiromasa. Ever since Mononoke hime (Princess Mononoke) smashed Japanese cinema records by taking ¥19.3 billion at the box office in 1997, Miyazaki and his studio had released a steady succession of megahits that grossed ¥10 billion or more each. Ghibli was a behemoth whose films became central to the profitability of the entire movie industry as a whole. With these two announcements, a golden age came to an end.

A decade has now passed since 3D computer graphics became the mainstream choice for commercial animati

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