Studio Ghibli’s hand-drawn Star Wars animation hits Disney Plus tomorrow

Grogu, meet Totoro. This night famed animation home Studio Ghibli — best-known for movies like Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro — confirmed its new Star Wars venture, which is named Uncover Zen – Grogu and Mud Bunnies and is described as a “a hand-drawn animation.” There aren’t many different particulars on it, however that’s not such an enormous deal since you’ll be capable to see it for your self very quickly: it begins streaming on Disney Plus on November twelfth.

This isn’t Lucasfilm’s first foray into Japanese animation. The primary season of Star Wars Visions, an anthology that includes a few of the greatest names in anime, debuted on Disney Plus final yr. “We needed to showcase completely different Japanese studios, not simply trade giants,” Visions producer Kanako Shirasaki instructed The Verge in 2021. “We needed to decide on studios with completely different backgrounds, who needed to inform completely different tales in numerous types.” A second season is on the best way.