Lucasfilm and Studio Ghibli Surprise Fans With Baby Yoda Cartoon

A day after they surprised followers with the tease of a collaboration, Lucasfilm and Studio Ghibli revealed precisely what they made collectively — and you received’t have to attend lengthy to see it.

The team-up between the house of Star Wars and the enduring Japanese animation studio has resulted in an animated quick titled “Zen – Grogu and Dust Bunnies.” The quick will debut on Disney+ tomorrow, as a part of the celebration of the streaming service’s third anniversary.

The press launch didn’t clarify what the quick is about but it surely did specify that “the hand-drawn, animated short is directed by Katsuya Kondo with music by Ludwig Göransson.” Kondo labored as an animation director on movies like Kiki’s Delivery Service, Ponyo, and From Up on Poppy Hill, and contributed as an animator to Howl’s Moving Castle, The Secret World of Arrietty, and many extra.

Here is the total poster for the quick movie:

When Disney+ launched on November 12, 2019, The Mandalorian was its signature sequence — and a giant a part of its early attraction was the surprising debut of Baby Yoda — AKA Grogu — who turned out to be one among solely two full-time characters on the sequence. (Pedro Pascal’s Mando was the opposite.) So in case you are doing one thing to rejoice the service and the present, doing one thing with Baby Yoda makes a number of sense.

If you wish to watch different Studio Ghibli motion pictures, although, they’re not on Disney+. The firm’s catalog completely streams within the United States on HBO Max. The studio’s hub on that service presently affords 24 motion pictures for streaming, together with such masterpieces as My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and The Wind Rises.

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