Just as visionary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki wins awards for his latest feature animation 'The Boy and the Heron' (2023), Imo and James decide to conduct a curated retrospective of the Studio Ghibli canon. 

Picking their favourites from the director's oeuvre and the wider Ghibli canon (and yes, it's their own subjective choices!), the anime addicts discuss their first steps into the magical world(s) of Miyazaki.

They explore the now classic Ghibli themes of childhood, environmentalism, metaphysics, and love in a film from each of the last four decades: 'My Neighbour Totoro' (1988), 'Princess Mononoke' (1997), 'Spirited Away' (2001), and 'Arrietty' (2010).

What is the spirit of Miyazaki? And do they think will it be conjured up again in his next animated movie?