Animated August 2025: Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)

If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck... it's NOT studio Ghibli! Mary and the Witch's Flower is the debut movie from Studio Ponoc, founded by former Studio Ghibli animator and director Hirosama Yonebayashi. Is this movie a copycat of the Studio Ghibli formula, or is it its own thing? Is the English dub better than the Japanese dub? Tune in to find out...

Animation is a highly flexible medium of filmmaking that allows for anything at all to exist in a movie. It also reveals a lot about the people who work on it through their brushstrokes, styles, techniques, and so on. Animation truly has limitless potential. In this series, Tony will explore some of the great animated classics that  defined animation for generations, as well as those that may not have received the cultural praise they deserved but were still technical achievements on their own. Here's to all the animators of the world!

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