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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📚 2021-2026 📚

A pile of books with the following titles:

The Little Guide to Ghibli
Ghiblipedia
The Animation Atlas
Ghibli verse
Film Korea
The World of Studio Ghibli
The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide
Ghibliotheque

All written by Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📚 We have (another) book out! The Little Guide to Ghibli is our pocket-sized primer on the legendary animation studio. It's packed full of quotes, facts, trivia and behind-the-scenes stories and a little bit of myth-busting, too. Find it in a good bookshop near you now! 📚

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

📚 Our new book, GHIBLIPEDIA, is out today! 📚

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The gang at @sightsoundmag.bsky.social have posted my short piece on Paprika and the internet on their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DaktqHrCGy...

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dod Magazine @dodmagazine.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Ediciones Minotauro (@minotaurolibros.bsky.social) publicará en octubre 'Ghiblipedia', la enciclopedia definitiva del universo Ghibli firmada por Jake Cunningham y Michael Leader, creadores y presentadores del reconocido pódcast @ghibliotheque.bsky.social. www.dodmagazine.es/libro-ghibli...

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Incredible news just announced... @gkids.com have acquired the distribution rights for the Studio Ghibli library for UK and Ireland! And we're finally getting Kiki's Delivery Service in IMAX! Just the best news for all fans on these shores.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Found in Spain: this gorgeous guide to the life and films of Hayao Miyazaki, fully illustrated and handwritten by artist-designer Amaia Arrazola.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Helen's beautiful new book, spotted out in the wild! (@glider.bsky.social, @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social)

Photo of a book with a pinkish cover with the capitalised yellow title THE MANGA BIBLE, with author credit HELEN McCARTHY

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Reviewed ARCO for @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/reviews/arco 🌈

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Arco, from sketch to screen

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

*Absurdly* short notice but we're screening the Oscar-nominated ARCO along with a selection of short films by director Ugo Bienvenu, followed by a recorded Q&A with the man himself. Friday 20th March at Picturehouse Central. Come along! www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

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ghibliotheque.bsky.social @ghibliotheque.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

🎙️ NEW EPISODE! 🎙️ This week, @michaeljleader.bsky.social speaks with director Kenichiro Akimoto about his time loop sci-fi flick All You Need Is Kill, which is screening in UK cinemas now! 🎧 - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

All I want for my birthday is for everyone who sees this to buy #TheMangaBible or borrow it from their local library. If you buy it from an indie bookstore or bookshop.org that's even better because it shares the love even further.

Cover images of The Manga Bible American, French and German editions and promo materials. The cover colour scheme is hot pink and black with bright yellow and white lettering. Cover art c Baron Yoshimoto, used with permission

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ghibliotheque.bsky.social @ghibliotheque.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

📽️ NEW SCREENING! To mark the release of Mamoru Hosoda's new film, we're presenting a special screening of his digital age spin on Beauty and the Beast... BELLE! ⌚ - 11.30am 🗓️ - Sat 14th March 🍿 - BFI IMAX 🎟️ - whatson.bfi.org.uk/imax/Online/...

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We've got a few Ghibliotheque screenings coming up in March. Here's the first!

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Darkness Pauls @paulle.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

BELLE has an amazing soundtrack. That is worth the admission alone.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Great film, great poster! Kiki's Delivery Service in IMAX!

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

*in US and Canada

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

New book coming out in August! A fun challenge to write capsule micro-essays on hundreds of different Ghibli-related topics.

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ghibliotheque.bsky.social @ghibliotheque.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📚 Coming in August.. Ghiblipedia! After travelling around the globe with our last book, we're returning to Studio Ghibli to present this beautifully illustrated encyclopedia that dives deep into the details of the world's greatest animation studio.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Very short notice, but we're doing a 'Ghibliotheque Presents' screening of LITTLE AMELIE, one of the year's best animated films, this Friday (13/02) at the Vue West End in London. Directors Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han will be with us for a Q&A afterwards, too! www.myvue.com/book-tickets...

Poster for the animated film Little Amelie

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It's official. Anime Ltd are releasing AKIRA, GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES and ANGEL'S EGG in the UK this year! Dates to come!

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

New podcast! A big chat with artist and filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu about Arco and all sorts: Dragon Ball Z, Marguerite Duras, the power of "the idea", the importance of routine, and the danger of living 'Instagram Lives'. Strap in! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Isao Takahata's epic transatlantic anime series 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (aka Marco) started its run on Japanese TV 50 years ago today. It's still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, so I'm chuffed that I got to write a mini-essay on the series in our book Ghibliverse.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The Wallace and Gromit exhibition at the Harris Museum in Preston is brilliant and free and finishes on the 4th! Although... expect a queue! We had to wait for an hour to get in but it was more than worth it to see these icons of animation up close - and in Nick Park's hometown, too.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki, still at it.

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ghibliotheque.bsky.social @ghibliotheque.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy new year from Studio Ghibli (illustration by Hayao Miyazaki) www.ghibli.jp/info/014035/

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Dreaming that we get a proper UK release of this someday!

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ThatMasonBoiii @thatmasonboiii.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Cheers for reading my question out @ghibliotheque.bsky.social ; a great selection of shorts to add my crimbo limbo watchlist ✌🏼

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Amazing stat on @ghibliotheque.bsky.social - that Julia Donaldson is the best selling English language author in the world, even if you include the wizard stuff.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Cheeky pre-Christmas episode! If The Snowman defined an era of animated festive telly, the Donaldson-Scheffler adaptations have ruled the last 15 years. So here's a nice little chat with Axel Scheffler to mark the *thirteenth* of his collabs with Julia Donaldson making the leap to the screen.

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ghibliotheque.bsky.social @ghibliotheque.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

🎙️ BONUS EPISODE! 🎙️ With The Scarecrows' Wedding premiering on the BBC on Christmas Day, Michael speaks to Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale) about creating picture books for children, seeing his work adapted for television, and his fruitful partnership with Julia Donaldson.

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ghibliotheque.bsky.social @ghibliotheque.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🎧 New episode! 🎧 It's time for another bloomin' episode of the Briggsonometry mini series... This week, Michael, Jake and Steph have picked up their red fur snowsuits from the dry cleaners and hopped aboard the Ghibliotheque sleigh to go for the Big One, Father Christmas! 🎅

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I'm in the latest issue of Empire Magazine with a lil news feature on blockbuster anime and the box office success of DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY CASTLE and CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE: REZE ARC. What a treat to make sense of this moment and dig beyond the headlines for the Empire readers.

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AnimEigo @animeigo.com · 18/12/2025

New episode of The Anime Business! Final episode of 2025! Helen McCarthy (@glider.bsky.social) on Discovering Anime, UK Fandom and the Joy of It All! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdEM...

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ghibliotheque.bsky.social @ghibliotheque.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

📬 THE MAILBAG IS OPEN! 📬 We're recording our Christmas pod this week and we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions, thoughts, reflections on anything from Ghibli to Raymond Briggs to world animation. Drop us a line at ghibliotheque@gmail.com or comment below! 💌

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📽️💣 NEW EPISODE! 💣📽️ Brace yourselves! Our Briggsonometry miniseries continues this week with the harrowing, blackly comic nuclear satire, WHEN THE WIND BLOWS. 🎧 Find us wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧

A still from the film When the Wind Blows, showing Jim and Hilda Bloggs in front of a mushroom cloud, with the overlay text 'Ghibliotheque: When the Wind Blows: Briggsonometry".

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Listening to the latest @ghibliotheque.bsky.social ep about When The Wind Blows. I totally agree, I can hear the Wallace and Gromit theme tune playing (bleakly).

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

According to this article I found in the Christmas TV Times from 1982, THE SNOWMAN was initially going to play in cinemas alongside E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL - but Steven Spielberg thought the films were too similar.

Picture of an article in the TV Times, with the headline "How ET lost his ice-cold friend"

Pic of an article, which reads as follows:

Paste your text here :)A snowman comes alive on Christmas Eve and treats the little boy who built him to an incredible adventure. That's the story behind an animated film called The Snowman which has it's first public showing on Channel Four on Christmas Sunday.

The 25 minute film was based on a picture book by Raymond Briggs and was made by London-based animators TVC, the company responsible for the Beatles cartoon Yellow Submarine. It took 100 people some 10 months to finish.

The Snowman was due to be released in British cinemas as support film to Steven Spielberg's current blockbuster E.T. , until the American director decided the two stories were too alike for comfort.

In The Snowman, there is no dialogue and just one song, which accompanies the highlight of the film, a flying sequence in which the little boy and the snowman travel to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus.

Producer John Coates explains : "Spielberg saw the film shortly before it was completed. He liked it very much but felt the story bore too many similarities to E.T."

Now Coates hopes The Snowman will compete for an Academy Award in the Best Animated Film category following a cinema release next year. Victory would be a fitting end to TVC's Silver Anniversary, for Coates was a founder partner of the company back in 1957.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

🎙️ New Episode! 🎙️ We're walking through the airwaves! @ghibliotheque.bsky.social has returned with a festively fused new season exploring the adapted works of Raymond Briggs, beginning here with perenial TV favourite: The Snowman. ⛄ 🎧 Now available wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧

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Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It was a fab party for a fab book. You can buy The Animation Atlas anywhere so please support your local indie bookshop or bookshop.org.uk - the online platform that lets a percentage from your purchases support your chosen bookshop.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Earlier this week... We launched a book! 📚 Such a treat to bring together a mezzanine full of pals and loved ones to mark the release of the new @ghibliotheque.bsky.social book, The Animation Atlas.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

📚 Our new book is out today! 📚 The Animation Atlas, our round-the-world trip through the global history of animation, is now available from all good bookshops!

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Ed @edhudson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

It’s taken a couple of years, but I have now watched every film in @ghibliotheque.bsky.social Anime Movie Guide. Some if seen before, some were first time watches. My favourites were Akira, Belle, Millennium Actress, Mind Game and Your Name, but really there’s no bad film on the list.

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