Last month, Disney’s English-language version of the newest Hayao Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli film Ponyo was released in theaters nationwide. It’s been four years since his last film, Howl’s Moving Castle, reached the States. A small resurgence of Miyazaki fever has hit anime fans, but the kid-friendly nature of the film (alongside Disney’s marketing, and inclusion of young Jonas and Cyrus siblings in the cast) has helped bring a more diverse crowd of people to see the film than, say, your average reader of OSV.
And those people, in experiencing the film, also got to here the incredible work of Joe Hisaishi, who has scored nearly every Miyazaki ever made.
After the jump, check out my thoughts on not one, but two albums released for the film: the Ponyo original soundtrack, and the image album. (more…)
