Studio Ghibli's 1988 film, My Neighbor Totoro, features a colorful array of food items that look extremely appetizing. On April 22, 2025, VIZ Media released a 64-page cookbook that teaches Totoro ...

Seattle software engineer Grant Slatton and his wife and dog at the beach as seen in an original photograph and the Studio Ghibli-style image, left, that he created using OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o.

That stylistic endurance has made Ghibli an outlier in contemporary animation. Disney ditched hand-drawn animation in favor of the more modern computer-generated style years ago; the studio has ...

The Ghibli-style image trend is not an isolated incident. It’s a symptom of a larger shift: AI has made it easy to mimic not just content, but creative identity.

ChatGPT’s ‘Ghiblification’ Craze: What Does Ghibli’s Creator Think of A.I.? It’s likely the 84-year-old filmmaker would view the trend with unease.