🇯🇵 Japan 3d ago · Casey Baseel

Princess Mononoke was going to look totally different, new Studio Ghibli artbook shows

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Princess Mononoke was going to look totally different, new Studio Ghibli artbook shows
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Art collection includes never-before-shown illustrations from Hayao Miyazaki’s vision for a feudal-Japan version of Beauty and the Beast.

The very first time I saw a preview for Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke, I was shocked by how dark the tone was. I was not at all prepared for a grim tale of humans and giant forest creatures fighting to the death in a territorial struggle with no clear “good guys” or “bad guys.” I’d been expecting this story of a mononoke/monster princess to be a sort of f

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