It’s tough to find an appropriate analogy for the Ghibli sale; the only one that comes close is Disney's purchase of Pixar for $7.4 billion in 2006.

While you won’t see much unlicensed Ghibli merch for sale at retail shops in Japan, it’s not hard to find at anime and pop culture shops overseas, or online for that matter. The studio is saying that ...

Japan’s Legendary Studio Ghibli, Co-Founded by Hayao Miyazaki, Sells Stake to Nippon TV. Succession worries had been a priority at Ghibli, as Miyazaki has turned 82.

Japan Studio was ultimately shut down in 2021 and its remaining teams spun off into other divisions, including Team Asobi which produced last year’s imaginative hit Astro Bot.

Former SIE president Shuhei Yoshida blamed the closure of PlayStation's Japan Studio on market conditions, stating that the double-A market for games has disappeared.

The closure of Sony's Japan Studio "wasn't necessarily a surprise" to former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden, who likened it to "pruning a bonsai". "That was sad," he said. "It wasn't necessarily a ...