"Ghiblies: Episode 1" is a 12-minute animated short film from 2000 that shows several Studio Ghibli employees during their work. Of course, it is all to be taken lightly and made for fun purposes. Actually you could almost call this a collection of vignettes, snippets or really short films put together for the overall product here. The animation style is somewhat unusual for Ghibli, but that's not the biggest problem in my opinion. The biggest problem to me was that this one felt lacking focus and all over the place and honestly it turned into a bit of a mess that you don't really expect from Ghibli. Perhaps only the employees can enjoy this one from a bit of an insider perspective. I myself like some Ghibli stuff quite a lot, but this one here is certainly a contender for least favorite. If you still wanna see it, get a good set of subtitles unless you are fluent in Japanese. Oh yeah, there is a sequel to this one here from 2 years later and I think this one worked out better. More details on my review at the sequel's title page. Back to this one here: I give it a thumbs-down and don't recommend checking it out.
Review of Ghiblies
