TITLE“Konyara”
CREDITS Goro Miyazaki and Katsuya Kondo
STUDIO/SCHOOL Studio Ghibli
Studio Ghibli has produced a commercial to mark the 110th anniversary of Nisshin Seifun Group, a Japanese food and manufacturing conglomerate.
Goro Miyazaki (Gedo Senki), Katsuya Kondo oversaw the studio's first attempt to create an animation work entirely based on brush-pen calligraphy. The cat "Konyara" in the commercial is based on a kitten that Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki himself drew.
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