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Welcome to the first episode of the first ever Christmas Ghiblis!  We’re so excited to share our love and admiration for this studio, these  creators and these films with all of you. We subconsciously associate  the holiday season with these movies in our minds, so this felt like the  right time to do these episodes. Creating something like the Christmas  Ghiblis felt a bit intimidating, as we are far from experts. However, in  addition to our cursory research, we also bring to the table our own  unique emotional experiences with the films, and we believe these are  valuable in their own right, as well as entertaining.

Doc and Shadon deep dive into the first film produced under the  Studio Ghibli name, Laputa: Castle In The Sky. We talk about creators  Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, and Joe Hisaishi, and what these guys  have to say about the film. We also discuss what we think the film’s  core themes to be such as: humanity’s sense of discovery, a turn to the  post-modern, the moral ambiguity of technology, believing in order to  understand, hiddenness, and more! Enjoy, and happy holidays!