HBO Max and GKids are persevering with their partnership with an animated embarrassment of riches.
HBO Max was already the house to the Studio Ghibli catalog in the US, which is distributed by GKids, however now they’ve prolonged that partnership to incorporate one other 20 live-action and animated titles, together with necessary works from filmmakers like Makoto Shinkai, Hideaki Anno, Mamoru Oshii, Mamoru Hosada and Satoshi Kon.
The primary drop will occur on September 1, with titles that embody “Ghost Cat Anzu,” considered one of final 12 months’s absolute best animated movies, making its streaming debut; “Love & Pop,” an early, live-action characteristic from Anno, greatest referred to as the creator of the “Neon Genesis Evangelion” franchise; and two pretty options from Makoto Shinkai – “Kids Who Chase Misplaced Voices” and the blockbuster “Your Title” (making its 4K streaming debut).
Coming later in 2025 and into 2026 are one other crop of wonderful options, together with Kon classics “Good Blue” (additionally a 4K streaming debut) and “Millennium Actress;” Oshii’s early “Angel’s Egg,” which simply performed at Cannes and Annecy (making its North American streaming debut with a brand new 4K switch); Hosada’s unbelievable “Summer season Wars,” “The Boy and the Beast,” “The Lady Who Leapt By Time” and “Wolf Kids;” and Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s “Shin Godzilla” (making its streaming debut). There’s additionally the streaming debut of Naoko Yamada’s gorgeous “The Colours Inside,” which opened earlier this 12 months.
The complete listing is beneath.
September 1 Titles
“Kids Who Chase Misplaced Voices” (dir. Makoto Shinkai)
“Fireworks” (dir. Akiyuki Shinbo, Noboyuki Takeuchi)
“Fortune Favors Girl Nikuko” (dir. Ayumu Watanabe)
“Ghost Cat Anzu” (dir. Yôko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita)
“Lonely Citadel within the Mirror” (dir. Keiichi Hara)
“Love & Pop” (dir. Hideaki Anno)
“The Place Promised in Our Early Days” (dir. Makoto Shinkai)
“Your Title” (dir. Makoto Shinkai)
Later in 2025/2026 Titles (premiere dates shall be introduced later)
“Angel’s Egg” (dir. Mamoru Oshii)
“Liz and the Blue Chook” (dir. Naoko Yamada)
“Lu Over the Wall” (dir. Masaaki Yuasa)
“Millennium Actress” (dir. Satoshi Kon)
“Thoughts Sport” (dir. Masaaki Yuasa)
“Good Blue” (dir. Satoshi Kon)
“Shin Godzilla” (dir. Hideaki Anno, co-director Shinji Higuchi)
“Summer season Wars” (dir. Mamoru Hosoda)
“The Boy and the Beast” (dir. Mamoru Hosoda)
“The Colours Inside” (dir. Naoko Yamada)
“The Lady Who Leapt By Time” (dir. Mamoru Hosoda)
“Wolf Kids” (dir. Mamoru Hosoda)
