Studio Ghibli, The well-known Japanese animation studio behind classics like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away has spent the previous few days teasing a attainable collaboration with Lucasfilm and Star Wars on its official Twitter. And there’s some proof that it is perhaps a Child Yoda aka Grogu present based mostly on a earlier leak and a brand new tease.
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In case you are studying Kotaku, I possible don’t want to elucidate Studio Ghibli or Star Wars, however let’s simply fake for a second that you don’t have any thought what this stuff are. This may simply take a second, be affected person. Studio Ghibli is an extremely in style animation studio that was based in 1985 in Tokyo, Japan. Since its creation, it’s gone on to supply beloved movies, like My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Supply Service. In the meantime, Star Wars is an enormous sci-fi franchise that was created by George Lucas within the 70s and has since grown into one of many largest issues on the planet. Its most up-to-date present, Andor, is wonderful (and in addition stuffed with cool, however easy-to-miss Easter eggs!) And these two is perhaps working collectively within the not-too-distant future, based mostly on current tweets from each.
Yesterday, the official Studio Ghibli Twitter account tweeted out a short video exhibiting the Lucasfilm brand and its personal brand. That was it. However it was sufficient to get folks speaking and going “Hey, what’s that every one about, then?” Shortly afterward, the official Star Wars Twitter account re-shared the teaser as nicely. This did two issues. One, it killed my hopes that the anime studio was engaged on an Indiana Jones sequence, and two, it confirmed that no matter they’re collabing on includes Star Wars. Now, earlier right this moment, Studio Ghibli doubled down on the connection to the well-known galaxy, far, distant with a follow-up post showing an image of Grogu, additionally identified on-line as Child Yoda. The official Star Wars account has since re-tweeted the picture.
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This alone looks like stable proof the studio is doing a Child Yoda brief or film or animated sequence. However even earlier than right this moment’s tweet and yesterday’s tease, we knew Disney and Lucasfilm have been possible engaged on a Grogu mission of some variety. That’s because of a earlier leak from the Italian Disney+ Twitter account earlier this month. That leak pointed towards a November 12 launch date, which is coincidentally tomorrow. It’s additionally the three-year anniversary of the premiere for The Mandalorian, the present the place Grogu first appeared.
All of this factors to the very actual risk that very quickly, Studio Ghibli and Lucasfilm will launch a brand new animated Star Wars brief starring Grogu. Or maybe that leaked brief has nothing to do with this mission and as a substitute, Ghibli is engaged on a phase for the following season of the Star Wars anime spin-off anthology sequence, Star Wars Visions. Time will inform…
