As OpenAI’s new viral filter floods social media with AI-generated art mimicking Studio Ghibli’s style, fans of traditional animation are pushing back. Many artists are criticizing the trend, calling it soulless and hollow in comparison to Ghibli’s painstakingly crafted hand-drawn worlds. The studio’s legendary founder Hayao Miyazaki has long stood against machine-made art, famously stating, “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
With debates around the value of real art gaining traction again, now might be the perfect time to immerse yourself in the original Ghibli experience. If you’re new to this world, or simply craving a creative cleanse, here are four emotionally rich films to remind you what real animation looks like.
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Begin with Howl’s Moving Castle, a fantasy epic filled with magic, love, and a moving house. Then drift into Kiki’s Delivery Service, a coming-of-age tale about a young witch finding her way in a new city. Both offer stunning visuals and deep emotional resonance.
For something smaller in scale but equally grand in message, The Secret World of Arrietty offers a fresh look at the world from the eyes of tiny people borrowing from humans. And finally, Spirited Away — Ghibli’s most haunting classic — throws you into a dreamlike world of spirits and strange transformations, where a child must fight to save her family.
Whether you’re escaping the algorithm or discovering animation’s true magic for the first time, Ghibli remains the gold standard of storytelling through art.
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