Happy 80th birthday to the king Hayao Miyazaki https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/21267907/studio-ghibli-movies-watch-guide-totoro-spirited-away-miyazaki-takahata-films?utm_campaign=polygon.social&utm_content=polygon&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind has an important lesson to teach in 2021: everything changes, but life goes on
https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/25/21265521/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind-studio-ghibli-movie-watch-meaning-manga?utm_campaign=polygon.social&utm_content=polygon&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Castle in the Sky centers on something Miyazaki largely avoided throughout his career: an outright, uncompromising villain
https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/25/21269323/castle-in-the-sky-studio-ghibli-movies-hayao-miyazaki-villains-explained?utm_campaign=polygon.social&utm_content=polygon&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro dispels the myths of the Frozen generation. Yes, 2D animation can still enchant today’s kids. https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/26/21270255/my-neighbor-totoro-best-studio-ghibli-movies-watch-2d-animation-vs-3d-animation-disney?utm_campaign=polygon.social&utm_content=polygon&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

On the profound loneliness of Kiki’s Delivery Service, Miyazaki’s exploration of isolation through the eyes of a teenage witch:
https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/26/21270987/kikis-delivery-service-best-studio-ghibli-movies-hayao-miyazaki?utm_campaign=polygon.social&utm_content=polygon&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

In Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki managed to turn the fear of the unknown into a visible force — and broke all of Studio Ghibli’s rules to do it
https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/27/21271782/princess-mononoke-hayao-miyazaki-best-studio-ghibli-movies-themes?utm_campaign=polygon.social&utm_content=polygon&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Miyazaki’s adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle is nothing like the book, and every book-to-film adaptation could learn from it https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/28/21273827/howls-moving-castle-studio-ghibli-movies-diana-wynne-jones-adaptation?utm_campaign=polygon.social&utm_content=polygon&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is a masterpiece ... for so many reasons. We named as many as we could. https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/27/21271278/spirited-away-watch-best-studio-ghibli-movie?utm_campaign=polygon.social&utm_content=polygon&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Finally: ham. https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/31/21275470/ponyo-worst-hayao-miyazaki-movies-ghibli-still-good?utm_campaign=polygon.social&utm_content=polygon&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter