title: "Studio Ghibli Is Debuting a New Original Short at Ghibli Park This July" excerpt: "Ghibli Park is getting its first park-made original anime short, and fans" only have one place to watch it when it launches on July 8. category: anime date: '2026-04-21T18:04:02+08:00' author: Aimirul tags:
- Studio Ghibli
- Ghibli Park
- Goro Miyazaki
- Akihiko Yamashita
- Japan travel featured: false coverImage: /images/anime/studio-ghibli-is-debuting-a-new-original-short-at-ghibli-park-this-july.jpg
Studio Ghibli has announced a brand new short anime, Majo no Tani no Yoru (A Night in the Valley of Witches), and this one is not heading to regular cinemas or streaming first. It will debut exclusively on July 8 at Cinema Orion inside Ghibli's Grand Warehouse at Ghibli Park.
That alone already makes it a pretty big deal for Ghibli fans. This is also being billed as the first original short Studio Ghibli has produced specifically for Ghibli Park, so it is not just another bonus screening. It is built for the park itself.
The short is being directed by Goro Miyazaki, whose past work includes Tales from Earthsea, From Up On Poppy Hill, and Earwig and the Witch, alongside Akihiko Yamashita, who directed the "Invisible" segment in Modest Heroes.
Set inside the Valley of Witches
As the title suggests, Majo no Tani no Yoru is set in Ghibli Park's Valley of Witches area, the section that opened in March 2024. That makes the project feel even more on-brand, because it is tied directly to one of the park's themed zones rather than just borrowing the Ghibli name.
For fans in Malaysia and the wider SEA region, this is the kind of update worth bookmarking if Japan travel is already on your 2026 anime bucket list. Ghibli Park has been one of those dream stops for anime fans here, especially for people planning Aichi or Tokyo trips around seasonal breaks. An exclusive short gives the park even more "okay bro, now I really need to go" energy.
Special first screening will be very limited
The first showing on July 8 at 9:45 a.m. will come with something extra: Goro Miyazaki and Akihiko Yamashita will appear for an audience greeting and a behind-the-scenes talk.
There is a catch, of course. Only 150 tickets will be available for that screening, so this is going to be a proper fast-click situation.
Those tickets go on sale on May 10 at 2:00 p.m., at the same time as regular July Ghibli Park tickets.
Why Ghibli Park keeps getting more relevant
Ghibli Park officially opened on November 1, 2022, after landing two years later than its original 2020 schedule. Since then, it has kept expanding across the Aichi Expo Memorial Park, with public access already open for Dondoko Forest, Ghibli's Grand Warehouse, and Hill of Youth. The Mononoke Forest area followed in November 2023, while the Valley of Witches joined in March 2024.
The park itself covers about 7.1 hectares within the much larger 194-hectare Aichi Expo Memorial Park, which was also the site of World Expo 2005.
For international fans, the good news is Ghibli Park has already been selling tickets online overseas since January 2023, so Malaysian and SEA visitors are not locked out of the process.
Studio Ghibli also continues to operate the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, west Tokyo, where visitors can check out interactive exhibits, replicas of famous creations, and rotating screenings of different Ghibli animated shorts. But this new project gives Ghibli Park something fresh that is fully its own.
If you are the type who plans Japan trips around anime spots, this is one more reason to keep Ghibli Park high on the list.
Source: Anime News Network