Studio Ghibli is the prestige door of this block: a closed library of feature films, each a single sealed artifact, with the widest non-fan recognition of anything here. The shelf is structured film by film, the way the gaming vertical treats its arcade classics: one studio, many small perfect canons. Quizzes run as per-film deep dives, director records across the Miyazaki and Takahata filmographies, the recurring motifs and creatures that travel between films, and release chronology for the library as a whole. The films are the canon, full stop: source works that run beyond or diverge from their films are separate continuities and are declared if ever touched. Nothing here decays, and every film is somebody's first anime, so the front door stays gentle.
The front door of the Family Matinee: a closed library of films, each its own sealed canon. Ten questions on the studio's landmarks as the filmography files them: the emblem in the forest, the girl renamed at the bathhouse, the witch and her cat, and the Oscar that started a line. Gentle by design; every film here is somebody's first anime.
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