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These things about Studio Ghibli are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

• Awesome Art: Ghibli is know for their attention to detail and carefully crafted movements. Unlike most other anime studios, their focus isn't on fluid fights and big battles. Rather, the studio tends to focus on romanticising the mundane, painting the events of the current world in a more beautiful and eloquent light.
• Awesome Music: Ghibli, alongside Miyazaki's composer Joe Hisaishi, is absolutely known for this. Every single one of his scores has a memorable Leitmotif, which is developed and expanded upon in the works that use it.
• Ear Worm: Combined with their Awesome Music, some of their tracks are absolutely this, like the main motif of The Borrower Arrietty or My Neighbor Totoro.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Pixar. Both studios are known for consistently creating high quality animated features. In the 2000s, Pixar's John Lasseter assisted in convincing Disney to bring many of Ghibli's works to America, and helped oversee the production of dubs. Pixar has even included Totoro in Toy Story 3 as a Shout Out to Ghibli. Miyazaki is personally friends with Lasseter.
• Escapist Character: Ghibli's worlds can be more dreamy and well developed than the real world, helped along with stunning attention to detail and lavish greenery. It's no wonder that many people wish to escape into their worlds and become the characters inhibiting them.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Ghibli is just as loved, if not more loved, in the USA than its home country. New Ghibli productions, although having low grosses, are frequently nominated for American awards, and are regularly re-screened to a small but dedicated group of fans. Spirited Away is the only traditionally animated and non-American film winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
• Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: A lot of Ghibli's anti-capitalist themes are subtle and hidden away in their films. However their environmentalist and War Is Hell themes are quite Anvilicious and can be conveyed more with more subtlety if Hayao Miyazaki personally came to your house and yelled in your ear. These are serious themes that should be tackled, as they are issues persisting in the real world, which needs solutions. They are hard truths which must be expressed.
• Toy Ship: Ghibli's films starring teenagers or adolescents tend to have these. Their child protagonists don't tend to engage in romances, but share some sweet scenes together.

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