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Film scholars (as well as critics, reviewers, and audiences) have long recognized the works of Studio Ghibli, and in particular, the films directed by Hayao Miyazaki, as superb contributions not only to anime (Japanese animation), but to cinema in general.

This bibliography presents a comprehensive listing of English-language scholarly writing (monographs, chapters in edited essay collections, and articles in peer-reviewed journals) on the work of Hayao Miyazaki and his colleagues.

Last Updated: September 6, 2026

New additions:

• Lindsay Coleman, Rayna Denison, & David Desser (eds.). The Many Worlds of Takahata Isao.
  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

• Dominic J. Nardi & Keli Fancher (eds). Studio Ghibli Films as Adaptations: Investigating How the Japanese Animation Powerhouse Reimagines Stories.
  New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

• Crombie, Zoe. From Little Mermaid to feral child: The rebellious trajectory of the wild girl in Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo. Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook, 23, 137-149. 

• Fodroczi, Stephen. Miyazaki and Shinkai: Classical katabasis and folklore motifs in Japanese animation.
  In Chiara Sulprizio & C W Marshall (eds.).  Animation and the Ancient World (pp. 172-189). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

• Poon, Erica Ka-yan. Anime auteurs: Makoto Shinkai and Hayao Miyazaki.
  In Nichola Dobson & Paul Taberham (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Animation Studies (pp. 525-537). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Yoneyama, Shoko, Szorenyi, Anna, & Nursey-Bray, Melissa. Animism meets posthumanism: Reimagining the human–nature relationship through shrine gates (torii) in the works of Miyazaki Hayao and Shinkai Makoto. Japan Forum (forthcoming).