Ghibli Hills/Anime and Manga

Examples of in Anime and Manga include:


 * Being the Trope Namer, Studio Ghibli works often feature Ghibli Hills to the point where it's hard to find a work that doesn't feature them:
 * Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, The Wind Rises and, to a lesser extent, Porco Rosso and Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Interestingly, Miyazaki's first feature Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind has no Ghibli Hills, being set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland instead.
 * Also Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea to a lesser extents. There are very indulgent shots of the ocean and mountains, but they are significantly shorter and occur less often in other Studio Ghibli films.
 * Kiki's Delivery Service is a more western equivalent, with the suggestion that it takes place in a sort of European setting where World War II never happened.
 * Also used more darkly in Isao Takahata's tanuki story Pom Poko. The tanuki (raccoons in the English dub) start out living happily in the Tama Hills west of Tokyo until the city starts encroaching on their territory. Soon the tanuki are forced to use their legendary powers of illusion in an increasingly desperate struggle to protect their forests, even going so far as to reveal their fantastical existence in a final plea for the environment. In the end Ironically, the next Studio Ghibli film, Whisper of the Heart is set in the very same Tama New Town suburb created by this development.
 * The Tale of the Princess Kaguya has many long and wide shots centred on these hills. They are depicted in a different art style than the usual lush and saturated green paintings, opting for a minimalistic style instead.
 * In the backgrounds of When Marnie Was There (film), intended to develop the already calm and subdued tone.
 * Like most anime with RPG roots, the universe of Pokémon has a literal overworld, with the characters heading through Ghibli Hills frequently.
 * The future in Sailor Moon seems to be a bright city, surrounded by nothing but green.
 * Kino's Journey
 * In Ranma ½, anywhere in Japan that isn't Nerima is presented as Ghibli-esque landscape (until Ranma and co finish trashing it, that is).
 * It seems that all of Japan is scenic mountains and valleys in Mushishi, which seems to draw other influences from Miyazaki as well. This is largely justified, as it is set in the past, much of Japan is mountains, and mushi live in all sorts of locations.
 * In One Piece, Luffy's hometown of Gao Island has Ghibli Hills between Windmill Village and the depressingly disgusting garbage city, lying outside the nobles' city. It's here that the mountain bandits thrive and Luffy spends most of his time with Ace and Sabo.


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