Sure, it's just some cool images. But it shows the tide is with the customized and the automated — and away from originality.

Here's how the scene starts. Haku: Meet me at the bridge. I'll take you to your parents. [Chihiro gasps] Narrator: Here's a question: What shot would you guess comes after this? In most cases ...

including several depicting lookalikes of Chihiro Ogino and Haku from Spirited Away (2001). Taking into account Ghibli's strong personal stance against AI art, Catsuka concludes that the involved ...

At the start of Hayao Miyazaki’s modern classic Spirited Away, the young heroine Chihiro and her parents are exploring a seemingly abandoned theme park when a boy named Haku greets her with a ...