Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio, famous in Japan and well known around the world. Their films have won many awards; Spirited Away won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2002 (the only non-English film to win to date).
This giant robot is from Castle in the Sky.
Totoro, the forest spirit from My Neighbor Totoro, is also the company mascot. Not only that, he's my favorite character/movie.
The films are definitely strange, but also very whimsical. The older films focus more on Japanese folklore, with many spirits and gods (kind of hokey if you ask me). The newer ones are more random but also more enjoyable. The latest short which we could see exclusively at the museum featured a dough monster with a wormy apple for a nose.
And yes, we bought a ton of crap at the gift shop. It was awesome.
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