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The beautiful Blu-ray covers for my all time favorite anime, The Tatami Galaxy. These were illustrated by Yusuke Nakamura, who is most notable for his cover designs for Asian Kung-Fu Generation.

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Studio Ghibli Color Designer Michiyo Yasuda, has passed away. :’(

Michiyo Yasuda, long time animator & color designer of Studio Ghibli passed away 

Japan’s Mainichi has reported on the death of long time color designer and the chief of the ink and paint division of Studio Ghibli Michiyo Yasuda, who passed away of an undisclosed illness on October 5 at the age of 77. Yasuda started working at Toei Dogo before she was 20 and joined Studio Ghibli co-founders Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki on the 1968 anime feature Horus, Prince of the Sun aka the Little Norse Prince.

Yasuda later worked on Miyazaki’s ‘78 TV anime Future Boy Conan, pre-Ghibli feature Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and Studio Ghibli’s features such as Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro,  Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo, as well as Isao Takahata works like Grave of the Fireflies. 

While Yasuda officially retried after Studio Ghibli released Ponyo in 2008, she came back in 2013 for Miyazaki's “final feature” The Wind Rises. Yasuda won an Animation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 from the Japan Movie Critics Awards.

Her career spanned over five decades, beginning as a tracer for animation before shifting into color work. She was present at the inception of Studio Ghibli, and continued to run the Color Department until her retirement following PONYO in 2008. Then returned to work for The Wind Rises. 

Read More: There are interviews and more of her art (basically Ghibli screencaps). Cause she basically has worked on EVERYTHING and created amazing worlds. for us to watch & live in…. http://www.indiewire.com/2016/10/michiyo-yasuda-dead-studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki-1201735490/  http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/10/11-1/long-time-studio-ghibli-color-designer-michiyo-yasuda-passes-away http://goboiano.com/news/5251-ghibli%2527s-legendary-color-designer-michiyo-yasuda-passes-away-at-77 http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1700

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiyo_Yasuda

 We are forever grateful for your incredible, filled with out of this world beauty artistry.  RIP Michiyo Yasuda.

[ghibli-collector]

Thank you for making this post, I’m glad to see this sad news getting attention. I had drafted a profile post on Yasuda a few months ago and never got around to finishing it and now its so sad that its taken her death for many people to discover one of the geniuses of Studio Ghibli who decided the colours for practically everything you see in every Ghibli film ever made.

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yamatomatoes asked: gintama + favourite familial relationship

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Rain for iPhone 6+ (click for hi-res)

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Garden of Words (2013) - Directed by Makoto Shinkai

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Studio Ghibli Posters - Jack Bloom

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Hunter Quest

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*sigh*

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WATER

EARTH

Fire

AIR

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avacatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I adopted the new Avacatar, a catbender named Steve. And although his felinebending skills are great, he still has a lot to learn before he’s ready to save anyone. But I believe Steve can save the world.

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The Wind Rises

[ghibli-collector]

千と千尋の神隠しSpirited Away Art - Dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2001)

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[ghibli-collector]

Spirited Away Bathhouse, Hayao Miyazaki’s Layout and the original Background (2001)

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[daftprodigy]

I was watching Gurren Lagann with @rane0 and recognized a shot that RWBY homaged :D

Yang’s fists are the fists that will pierce the heavens!