Starting in 1996, Studio Ghibli has issued an annual calendar featuring original artwork based on their movies. These are excellent collectors' items for casual and die-hard fans alike. Many of these illustrations have also been used for official merchandise, including DVD amd Blu-Ray cover designs.
Dedicated Ghibli Freaks will recognize many of these illustrations, including the Pom Poko design which appears on the newly-released Disney Blu-Ray. I have a Japanese jigsaw puzzle with the Totoro design, and the Omohide Poro Poro illustration (shown above) appears on my Region 2 DVD.
Unfortunately, these illustrations in my possession - they've been sitting on my desktop PC for years - doesn't include the calendars themselves, only the drawings. That means I don't know the precise order. Not that it matters much. I'll just shuffle them around for no good reason.
The rest of the 1996 calendar appears below the jump break.
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I use the images from the calendars from 1996-2003 as a rotating background, they're all so beautiful!
Oops, think I double posted, sorry!
Triple-posted, actually. But who's counting? :)
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