Ghibli Shinto

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Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli draw deep on the Shinto world: the forest kami and beast-gods of Princess Mononoke, the bathhouse of the eight million gods and its yokai in Spirited Away, an animism in which river and tree and wind are alive and ensouled. The old kami of Japan, walking in modern animation. — anime history