Walt Disney Company Vs. Studio Ghibli - 1298 Words

Marina Klimova Professor Stacy English 111 1 October 2017 The Walt Disney Company vs. Studio Ghibli What does a whistling mouse and a catlike bunny creature have in common? They are both the logos of two leading animation companies: the Walt Disney Company and Studio Ghibli. While Disney and Studio Ghibli vary in their style, production, and overall themes, they both produce award winning and adventurous movies for Western and Non-Western audiences alike. In 1928, the whistling Mickey Mouse in the short cartoon Steamboat Willie led to the beginnings of success in Walt Disney’s company and set the ball rolling for the studio to become the widest known in the world (Holliss and Sibley 5). Before that, the company was strained financially and†¦show more content†¦While the directors of Studio Ghibli had in mind to meet these goals as well, they founded the studio more to have free reign in their artistic visions for animated movies. They wished to produce original anime movies(Takai). They on the other hand aimed for just their home country Japan and came to more renown than they intended. Altogether Studio Ghibli and Disney have won many different Therefore, Studio Ghibli’s animations embody a strong sense of Japanese culture while also using Western characters and settings in its productions (Odell and Michelle 33-35). Each animation has the characteristic style of Anime or animations made in Japan which usually looks like the manga, Japanese comic books, they are adapted from. Each has their own look but usually the characters have bigger eyes, small nose and mouth. The two directors of Studio Ghibli brought different themes and genres of animation to the table. Hayao Miyazaki was preoccupied with fantastical worlds hidden inside of our own world, flying machines or flying in general, and environmentalism. Isao Takahata focused more on realistic settings such as school life during adolescence and collaborated with Miyazaki to produce films that had more themes such as, growing up, strong female lead characters, forming an identity, animals with human characteristics and anti-war sentiments (Odell and Michelle 23-30). Disney in contrast, has