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April 4, 2025

The Semitic Origins of “Ghibli”

A Middle Eastern word, a North African wind, and Japanese cartoonists.

This week’s fleeting social-media-driven fad involved the discovery that an artificial-intelligence program can create images in the supposedly distinctive style of a Japanese cartoon producer called Studio Ghibli. What’s interesting about this is the origin of the name, which is not Japanese but Italian. David Curwin writes:

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