A Guide to Miyazaki's Weird Little Guys

Hayao Miyazaki’s movies, such as “The Boy and the Heron,” are full of strange li’l creatures. Get to know your soot sprites from your kodama from your warawara.

Film Review: Weird, Occasionally Profound “The Boy and the Heron”

Wizard of light and shadow

Mamoru Hosoda Says Hayao Miyazaki Does Not Have Confidence In Himself As A Man

Animation Obsessive, Animation Obsessive Staff

A Guide to Miyazaki's Weird Little Guys

Review: Swan song or not, Hayao Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' is a master surveying his empire - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Miyazaki – Reel Nerds Podcast

Barry McOckiner on X: If anything, Haiyo Miyazaki's “The Boy and the Heron” continues the proud tradition of his movies including large groups of weird little guys / X

Kodama, Ghibli Wiki

Is this the greatest Miyazaki movie? : r/ghibli

Studio Ghibli's first film Castle in the Sky is like no other Miyazaki movie - Polygon

19 Years Later, 'The Boy and the Heron' Rejects the Most Annoying Miyazaki Stereotype