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krpalmerDriving into work these days means I listen to the city/regional news at half past the hour. After that, the people on the drive-in show start bantering with each other. Yesterday they were discussing an article on their service’s online branch about new species identified last year. While trying to turn the verbal descriptions of some of them into images in my mind (and contemplating how I seem less phobic towards spiders than certain insects), I heard someone mention how the species might look like “products of Studio Ghibli.”
I tried to tell myself again that it’s been some time since I was first aware of the anime studio and things have changed in general (to say nothing of “Ghibli has been the respectable name in anime for longer than you’ve known of it”), but I suppose it was too late; I’d already been surprised and amused. I suppose I did get to thinking of what I remembered of my most recent viewings of Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, the latest Ghibli movies I’ve seen (and they’ve been around for a good while themselves); it wasn’t until a while later that I thought of the giant insects in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which just might be a deeper-cut reference (getting to the point of bringing up the trivia that Hayao Miyazaki and company weren’t called “Studio Ghibli” while they were making that movie).
I tried to tell myself again that it’s been some time since I was first aware of the anime studio and things have changed in general (to say nothing of “Ghibli has been the respectable name in anime for longer than you’ve known of it”), but I suppose it was too late; I’d already been surprised and amused. I suppose I did get to thinking of what I remembered of my most recent viewings of Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, the latest Ghibli movies I’ve seen (and they’ve been around for a good while themselves); it wasn’t until a while later that I thought of the giant insects in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which just might be a deeper-cut reference (getting to the point of bringing up the trivia that Hayao Miyazaki and company weren’t called “Studio Ghibli” while they were making that movie).