Looking Back at Spirited Away’s History and Allure, A Quarter Century On
by Zoe Crombie
Dr Zoe Crombie is an academic and critic specialising in Japanese animation, and Studio Ghibli specifically. She gained her PhD in Film Studies from Lancaster University in 2025, and has written on animation and gaming for popular publications including Vulture, Little White Lies, and The Skinny, as well as in scholarly journals.