“Just follow your heart and keep smiling.” – Kiki’s Delivery ServiceThis unofficial motto from the iconic Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli speaks of the company’s genuine purity and enthusiasm to create colourful, imaginative stories. Its name, ‘Ghibli’, was chosen by co-creator of the studio Hayao Miyazaki, with its origins referring to the Libyan Arabic name for ‘hot desert wind’, with the idea behind the name referring to Miyazaki’s ambition to “blow a new wind through the anime industry”. With an impact more like a gale-force wind, Studio Ghibli has since created 23 feature films, with each one challenging the very nature of the animation genre, elevating it beyond cliches of being mere ‘children’s films’.
Source: The top 10 Studio Ghibli films ranked in order of greatness