Studio Ghibli Animation as Adaptations

Investigating How the Japanese Animation Powerhouse Reimagines Stories

Dominic J. Nardi, Keli Fancher (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-7651-2706-3 (ISBN)

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This collection investigates how Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and other Studio Ghibli storytellers have approached the process of reimagining literary sources for animation.

Studio Ghibli is renowned for its original storytelling in films like My Neighbor Totoro, but many of its most famous films, including Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo, have their origins in pre-existing novels, manga, or fairy tales. Studio Ghibli’s adaptations seldom directly translate source material to animation, but instead transform the works to incorporate themes or imagery central to the studio’s sensibilities. Studio Ghibli Animation as Adaptations explores how these adaptations often blur genre boundaries and raise questions about what constitutes fidelity to source material. The collection also shows how the studio reinterprets and recontextualizes stories across cultures for Japanese audiences and across mediums like manga.

Dominic J. Nardi is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, USA. He co-edited The Transmedia Franchise of Star Wars TV (2020) and Discovering Dune (2022) and has written about politics in Blade Runner and Lord of the Rings. Keli Fancher is a full-time software engineer and an independent scholar focusing on anime studies, based in the USA.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Studio Ghibli Animation as (Re)creative Adaptations
Dominic J. Nardi (George Washington University, USA) and Keli Fancher (Signum University, USA)

Part I: Faithfulness and Fidelity
1. Apocalyptic Beauty: Future Boy Conan and How Hayao Miyazaki Adapts Apocalypse
River Seager (University of Dundee, UK)
2. Hayao Miyazaki as a Magician of Adaptation in Kiki’s Delivery Service
Miyuki Yonemura (Senshu University, Japan)
3. The Balance of Creation and Ruin: A Constituent Reading of Tales From Earthsea
Adam McLain (University of Connecticut, USA)

Part II: Translating Stories Across Cultures
4. Japan’s Swiss Heimat: How Heidi, Girl of the Alps Satisfies Japanese Homesickness
Keli Fancher (Signum University, USA)
5. My Bosom Friend Diana: Female Friendship and School Life in Red-Haired Anne
Patrick Carland-Echavarria (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
6. From Postmodern Fairy Tale to Ani-Modern Shojo: Adapting Howl’s Moving Castle
Yosr Dridi (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
7. Western Stories, Japanese Structures: Narratological Reinterpretations of Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo
Zoe Crombie (Lancaster University, UK)

Part III: From Manga to Anime
8. Post-Apocalypse and Solarpunk in Hayao Miyazaki’s Two Versions of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Dalila Forni (Link University, Italy)
9. Adapting Nostalgia in Only Yesterday and My Neighbors the Yamadas
Hsin Hsieh (University of Reading, UK)

Part IV: Boundaries and Genres
10. Rediscovering Laputa: Literary Form and Technoscience in Castle in the Sky and Gulliver’s Travels
Brian Milthorpe (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
11. True Stories, Theater Tropes, and Hotaru Mythologies: Adaptation Reconsidered in Grave of the Fireflies
Kendall Belopavlovich (Michigan Technological University, USA)
12. A Kettle of Fish on a Warming Planet: Exploring Liminality in Ponyo and “The Little Mermaid”
Colin Wheeler (Independent Scholar, USA)

Bibliography
Filmography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.05.2025
Zusatzinfo	12 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 232 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Manga
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-2706-3 / 9798765127063
Zustand	Neuware