By Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent Studio Ghibli’s latest feature animation, “Aya to Majo,” (literally, “Aya and the Witch”), will air on NHK during winter 2020, NHK announced today.
Based on “Earwig and the Witch,” a children’s novel by Diana Wynne Jones, the film is the first by Ghibli to be animated in 3D3G.
The director is Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki’s son, though the elder Miyazaki is credited with planning the project. The date of the broadcast and other details have yet to be revealed.
The film is a co-production between Ghibli, NHK and NEP (NHK Enterprises). There are currently no plans to release the film theatrically.
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