


I would say that I am uncertain of how stable this new identity actually is, but that would be a dissembling lie I am extremely certain that Earwig and the Witch is simply awful, the worst Studio Ghibli production out of 22 features spanning 34 years by such a gargantuan margin that the only fun lies in trying to come up with sufficiently florid insults to describe it.Ī huge part of this is that Earwig and the Witch is an attempt to prove that the venerable company can move beyond the handsome, painterly traditional-style animation that has been its main focus, to embrace fully-rendered 3-D CGI animation.

Earwig and the Witch, the first feature made by the reborn Studio Ghibli after it seemingly closed up shop for good with 2014's When Marnie Was There and the 2016 co-production The Red Turtle, finds the company trying to create a new artistic identity for itself.
