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At the NEW KAWAII tte shite yo? Fes held August 5, 2026 at Tokyo International Forum, FRUITS ZIPPER member Karen Matsumoto cosplayed as Ponyo, wearing a red dress and half-twin tails. Her look closely resembled Nozomi Ohashi, who sang the theme song for Studio Ghibli's Ponyo. She performed the song "Gake no Ue no Ponyo" at the event. Social media praised the cosplay with comments like "Too angelic" and "Basically the real thing."
Studio Ghibli has donated over 120 items from the 2008 film "Ponyo" to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, including key animation drawings drawn by Hayao Miyazaki himself and artboards that served as early concept blueprints for the film. The donation, which also includes original Japanese release posters, came as a surprise to senior exhibitions curator Jessica Niebel, who had repeatedly asked Ghibli for materials over several years without a response. After the museum's 2017 Hayao Miyazaki retrospective closed, Niebel received an email from Studio Ghibli offering the items. The donation is now part of the museum's new exhibition "Studio Ghibli's Ponyo," which opened recently and runs through January 10, 2027. The exhibit is Niebel's first designed specifically for children, with interactive play spaces, viewing stations, and a movable woodcut of Ponyo that children can manipulate. Niebel also conducted new interviews with Ghibli artists for the exhibit, a rare opportunity since the studio's artists typically do not give interviews.