GHIBLIOTHEQUE

BOOK

MICHAEL LEADER AND JAKE CUNNINGHAM | WELBECK

If Studio Ghibli’s recent return calls for a newcomer-friendly primer, this insightful and attractive guide duly delivers. Merging fan obsession with a genial sweep through the animation giants’ history, Leader/Cunningham dive into the minutiae of distribution, food motifs and more, sustaining a crucial sense of the pure pleasure in Ghibli’s best. The positivity disarms: even recent “3DCG” misfires can’t dent the writers’ hopes that Ghibli’s wind might rise again.