Vuonna 1982 saatiin sellainen animaatioelokuva kuin The Last Unicorn, eli suomeksi Viimeinen yksisarvinen. Ääninä vaikutuksen tekivät Christopher Lee, Mia Farrow ja Jeff Bridges. Nyt 40 vuotta myöhemmin on selvinnyt, että kyseessä on itse asiassa valeasussa kulkeva Studio Ghiblin elokuva.
Näin kertoi käsikirjoittaja Peter S. Beagle haastattelussa. Viimeisen yksisarvisen työ tehtiin Japanissa firmassa Topcraft, ja tämän studion ydintiimistä tuli aikanaan Studio Ghibli.
"Here's how it is: Financed in England, produced by Rankin/Bass, American company...but all of the work was being done in Japan, which was a process of Rankin/Bass going to less expensive animators in another country. And they hired -most of the animation was done by a company called Topcraft. And the minute they finished The Last Unicorn, Miyazaki hired them...And in fact, he didn't just hire them, the studio top rep was in financial difficulties, he came in and took them over and bought them up and turned it into Studio Ghibli. So most of the animators and designers who worked on The Last Unicorn, became the core team of Studio Ghibli. And all of those - 'Nausicaa,' 'Kiki,' all of them, the great Miyazaki early movies, were done by many of the same people as who worked on The Last Unicorn."
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