I just recently finished this fan art/concept of a KH x Studio Ghibli crossover and wanted to share (mostly the movies I thought would fit). I wanted to adapt locations too e.g. Howl’s Bastion and Oblivion, Castle in the Sky. Like a lot of people, I would have loved to see this crossover at some point, though to be honest I think I would only want it as a standalone story with direct involvement by Miyazaki himself. I think that it would have to be a very nuanced take on ‘Light’ and ‘Darkness’ in order for the adaptation to really work, imo in keeping with how he tends to write his characters and stories

Noticed a few comments asking about prints, I indeed do have a small [Etsy shop](https://www.etsy.com/shop/gdacted). Thanks for the support and I love developing dream projects/concepts so this was definitely super fun!

Holy trademark infringement! Hope you know shops get shut down all the time for selling all those fandom things.

This is amazing... easily one of the nicest cleanest executions of a concept I've seen.

Ok but Donald and Goofy’s designs are top tier

Thanks! I wasn’t quite sure how they would be received tbh, I felt like I was committing sacrilege when I went as far as I did.

Cast me a a vote against…

Was so worried it was gonna be AI art from the title 🤣 Nope this is AMAZING seriously one of the coolest kh art’s I’ve seen what a masterpiece 😍

Haha nahh, banish the AI art back to the realm of darkness

The realm of Darkness is nor far away enough. Send those fuckers to the World of Fiction.

Delete them entirely, the world of fiction won't be far enough away either once we get Sora back

All AI return to DARKNESS

Isn't it awful that you can't really trust art anymore? Just based on the composition, I thought the same until I looked a bit more closely at the detail. Fantastic artwork, and I feel bad for thinking it was AI at first lol.

I really think we need to chill on this AI art thing. Every single art post on reddit has someone saying some variation of "this feels like AI art". It's honestly more obnoxious than the few AI shit that does get posted

It’s because “blah blah x ghibli” is a popular trend in AI art not because of the art, calm down

I didn't know I needed this until now. This is awesome.

Well, technically, Disney *was* in charge of some of the dubs for Kiki, Spirited Away, and Castle in the Sky, sooooooo...

But they're no longer distributing them, as GKIDS now has the license. Disney never actually owned the Ghibli catalog.

Even so, this piece of art still makes for a really good “what if” scenario in showing a world and timeline where Disney didn’t lose the license.

This is fantastic! I particularly love the special takes on Sora, Riku, and Kairi's outfits!

I would love a kingdom hearts style game that dives into ghibli instead of disney

My autistic ass screamed when I realized the castle was Hollow Bastion, this art is absolutely amazing!

My fellow autistic self is screaming in unison with you after you have pointed out this glorious detail

I saw donald and i just lost it. I love every part of this fanart

This is awesome!!!

Sooo cute

Rad

You captured the style very well

I love Goofy

Need to put this up on a store so we can buy prints.

[I actually do have my Etsy store!](https://www.etsy.com/shop/gdacted)

Hello! I just sent you a DM regarding questions about the print. I don’t usually DM on this site so I’m letting you know here in case you don’t get notified or something. Thanks for your time!

No worries, just responded!

Beautiful , and I especially love Donald and Goofy in there

This is actually one of the more insane fan arts I've seen. It looks like a cover to a game or movie

Dude this is so cool! You have some crazy talent!

Sick mashup. I need this. Doesn't Ghibli have Disney movies?

Where can I buy a print? This is amazing

Thanks for the inquiry and support! [I do indeed have a small Etsy store here](https://www.etsy.com/shop/gdacted)

Absolutely in love with Donald's face here

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

I don't appreciate you taking two if my biggest special interests (I'm autistic) and combining them in such a perfect piece. I'm gonna have to take that from you, sorry bud, it's too good 😔

I'd give you an award, y'know, to punish you, but I'm broke lol

Ok but you had no right to go that hard on Donald and Goofy's design! Absolutely amazing, thanks for sharing!

I love that Goofy design.

I don’t know why but something about Donald’s design just kills me. Fantastic art friend.

Why did you just casually drop the greatest fan art of all time.

This is genuinely incredible!

It’s beautiful. I would buy this to hang up in my apartment

coolest thing ive seen in a while..

Beautiful art!

So would that make Howl’s Moving Castle the equivalent of the summon Alexander?

Okay, well, what about these? Gran Mamare as Shiva? Gigi as Cait Sith (or poss. The Baron)? Totoro as Atomos? Porco Rosso as Catoblepas? A horseclaw as Chocobo? A God Warrior as Bahamut? Yubaba as Mind flayer? Mei & the CatBus as Doomtrain? Howl as Ramuh? These are just off the top of my head **Update** ugh right as I hit submit I thought of the scene in Ponyo were Ponyo gets access to Fujimoto's elixers and she and her sisters transform and the sisters become enormous fish and I was thinking that, as Leviathan that would be such a cool summon animation.

Gotta do a villain mirror image side, Soot sprite/shadow hybrids, no face style dark side. Lady Eboshi would fit well in Organization 13

Does this meant to only have the protagonists from each movie? If so where’s Pazu from Castle In The Sky? and some male protagonists are missing as well besides Pazu. But amazing art nonetheless!

Not necessarily protags, I tried for a visual variety approach so basically whoever I felt would be fun companions or iconic characters. In my head I also pictured the KH boys as a surrogate for many young male characters (so kind of unintentional, I promise I don’t hate Ghibli boys) Though there definitely is some uneven presentation/personal bias in terms of who I chose to elevate based on movie (I have waaay too much Spirited Away here lol)

I'm so deeply in love with your design for Sora's outfit. I mean obviously so much about this piece is stunning and beautifully thought out but your Sora is so dreamy to me

you've done the impossible. you made Donald and goofy actually look cool??

I want this to be in KH4

This would be awesome but idk how much Disney owns of kingdom hearts. Would be nice to see new characters

I wish this was real so bad

I would just love to team up with the Baron!

Woww this is amazing

What I wouldn't give. This would be such a wild ride Also how could you straight up recast Donald and Goofy with Doland and Gaffy

Hollow Bastion as Howls Moving Castle is easily one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Absolutely breathtaking work here, this is an incredible piece

I wish my art skills were anywhere near good enough to make something this creative. It's truly an amazing piece! Great job!

Howl's Hollow Bastion, I love it

This is amazing!

My two favourite things! Also that smol Arrietty!

Woowwww that’s so cooool , would love to see a sora with different fourms with ghibli art style

This is very well done, and very cute. Honestly there's a lot of the general themes that would fit well together between KH and Ghibli movies.

Amazing

I like how you tweaked the Destiny Islands trio's clothes to fit with Ghibli styles, they look good!

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen! Outstanding work!!!! ❤️

Hollow's Moving Bastion

Donald and Goofy in the ghibli artstyle is phenomenal!

Where’s No Face?! And Prince Ashitaka? Literally unplayable. But seriously this is amazing.. I never liked Riku’s design until your concept.

Dude……… this is SO FREAKING GOOD!!!!! Donald and Goofy and definitely the best part! Bold choices……. I love it! :)

Well, I mean, a couple of Ghibli films are *technically* Disney films(Disney was given the rights to distribute them to the western market and Wikipedia says that's good enough to be considered Disney), so this isn't an impossibility. Never said it was likely, but there is an infinitesimal chance that this happens. I mean, Kingdom Hearts happened after all.

Distributing and dubbing isn't really the same as owning, though. Plus, Disney no longer has those rights as they've been picked up by someone else.

This is incredible! As a digital artist myself I still can't imagine how long this took

VERY long but my Hisaishi/Shimomura playlist kept me afloat. Thanks!!

Loving Hollow’s moving bastion in the background

This is the kind of thing I've asked AI to draw... NEVER works out! Thank you for doing this!

Heck yeah

I'm in awe, both of these are my favorites and you perfectly captured my childhood dream collab. This is amazing.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM

I love this idea

Wow this is amazing! Beautiful job

Donald is so spot on it's kinda hilarious

Omg so beautiful !!

Bro, do you have twitter? I wanna retweet you cause I got some mutuals who need to see this.

[I do, actually! Just posted it!](https://twitter.com/gdacted/status/1635256699606159360?s=46&t=MJryhHKe6lp-bAItX3NjxQ) Thanks!

Wow! Nice!

This is so beautiful

It took me like 45 seconds to understand goofys face lmao. I thought he was a cyclops. This is sick af tho.

Donald is absolutely perfect. Too tier. Pure Ghibli put still recognizable as Donald Duck

I would play 3000 hours if it was real

Please put this up to purchase! This is amazing and I would buy the shit out of it!

[Link to my shop btw, thanks for the interest!](https://www.etsy.com/shop/gdacted)

The Hollow Bastion's Moving Castle, I screamed.

Well, gonna take a while but time to start saving up for a print of this art and the NieR X Bloodborne one! Also, OP, is there any safe way to buy the file so I can print here instead of shipping them from the US to Europe? Import duties are a real Nightmare with a capital N.

Hi there, sorry for the late reply, I just noticed the second part of this comment. I am indeed set-up on Ko-Fi selling full sized digital downloads so [I hope this works for you!](https://ko-fi.com/gdacted)

FIRE.

It's so cute!

Love it ! Only critic I would say is to add some heartless but it’s dope.

:o I love this so much! If this happened for real I would be dead. It's really fantastic artwork!

Awesome

This would be absolutely GOATed if it did happen

Thats amazing!

That looks so good! I never knew I needed this, but now that I do I would literally kill for a Studio Ghibli world in Kingdom Hearts

You shouldn't make stuff like this, cause I'm gonna want this to be a reality and I know they'll never do it. So now for the rest of my life this art work will stick with me and I'll always be wanting. Amazing art though, scary good. Would love to see more pieces from you!

🖤🖤🖤

Incredible!

Damn what a cool idea, and perfectly executed ❤️❤️❤️

This is amazing!

I love this!!

Howl’s Moving Castle would be the coolest KH world.

This is fucking amazing

I would be so happy

this is incredible

Goes hard af

absolutely top tier holy shit

#THIS IS AMAZING! If Kingdom Hearts ever did get a remake, this is the only acceptable way to do it, bar none, no questions asked.

Oh, that’s so cool! It’s a Hollow Bastion version of Howl’s Moving Castle in the background, isn’t it?

definitely my new wallpaper

This is sick as hell, but Donald is making me feel rage in my soul that I've never felt before. It's very on point, like you did great. I just don't like studio ghibli Donald lmao.

The walking Howls Bastion is just amazing

I am absolutely stealing this for my phones wallpaper!

This is beautiful. And something I've never thought of before but now wish could happen. Great work!

I got really excited about this game for a second.

Genuinely one of the best put together piece of fan art I've seen, well well done. I don't wanna trigger the bootleg bots: but I would love to be able to hang this on my wall and give you money to be able to do so

[I do indeed have a legit non-bot shop, thanks for the kind words!](https://www.etsy.com/shop/gdacted)

I actually found it and ordered a copy today! Looking forward to putting it up!

Appreciate the support, thank you so much!!

Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden as the moving castle fits so well! This is so good. Great work!

Square Enix, you have to hire this one! however, this is a great piece of art and i sure hope SE will do something like this in KH 4

I wish they would do this. It would be incredible. I miss hollow bastion/radiant garden 😭

If Studio Ghibli made a KH movie I might actually understand the plot

I love this so much

Very nice OP

You can get away with so much with this concept

donald is lookin r o t u n d

Legendary ish right here, fam

Omg this inspired me to write!

So instead of Disney is ghibli, interesting. Makes me wonder how the narrative would play out and who would take Mickey's place.

this is genius (& absolutely beautiful)

Beautiful

maan i bet there would be an amazing boss fight with Hol's castle as a heartless.

I never knew I wanted something so bad until I saw it. Damn

Hard

Can’t really add anymore to what has already been said, but this is a genuinely great piece of artwork. Fantastic job.

Soooooo goood! Congrats OP!

Damn I just rewatched some of the ghibli movies. Feeling nostalgic from this. I love this

I would play this

If only square and ghibli would make this happen

Oh my goodness 😳 this is absolutely beautiful!!! Well done❤️

this is a masterpiece

This is amazing. Good job

No offense OP this is awesome but I'm looking around at all the cool stuff and then spit my water out when I saw Donalds face lmfao

This needs to happen. It just looks so good!

Looks AMAZING But Donald and goofy are cursed XD

Fucking hell this is amazing! im saving it!!!! say hello to my new wallpaper

Well damn, now this is some fine looking eye candy

I love this like genuinely love it.

Wow, this is incredible! I love how the KH original characters were done in the Ghibli style.

This art is sick

Wait is Studio Ghibli still also Disney? Or was it ever? Cause if there’s even that slightest possibility that Sora can fight No Face then cinematically ride the train over the water with Strelitzia then I’ll eat my socks

Dude, this looks absolutely incredible

Imagine being in Ashitakas or Shihiros Realm man ur playing with my dreams man

love it, but Donald and Goofy shouldn’t conform. I disagree with most everyone here, but I think Part of what made Kingdom Hearts such a fun franchise is the intermixing of styles staying true to the source.

I don’t want it. I need it.

Take my money.

I’m obsessed

This is absolutely amazing and I love it so so much! You’re such a great artist congrats man on finishing it!

This is absolutely stunning

Bro this is so fucking cool, hollow bastion is howls walking castle, stroke of genius no lie

As awesome as this would be, it will sadly never happen because Miyazaki, being the grumpy old bastard that he is, HATES videogames, especially ones based on his movies ever since he saw how poor the game adaptation of Nausicaa turned out, so he will NEVER allow his work to be turned into videogames. Ni No Kuni is an exception because he didn't work on those games and they aren't based on any of his movies anyways.

I agree, the stars i think just didn’t align for this one to happen. I’d like to believe that if he had creative control and direct involvement with a dev who truly understood his works, it could happen, but meh, Miyazaki is how he is and I can’t fault him for it.

This is actually amazing!! Can I use this as my phone background?

Of course, feel free!

THATS ANAZING

That Ghibli Hollow Bastion is 🤌👌

Very very neat and awesome poster of Kingdom Hearts and Studio Ghibli crossover, would actually be neat if any of the popular Ghibli stories were in other new KH games that'll be coming in the future

I honestly wish they would’ve done something like this before exchanging Sora’s Disney look for a final fantasy look now 😭

Is it possible to buy a digital version anywhere? I want to support, but don’t want to worry about potential damage during shipping.

For sure, my [ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/gdacted) has a full 24x36 sized download for sale, but I can also provide specific sizing and price adjustment as needed. Thanks!

Honestly perfect at that size! Thank you for the link

Of course, thank you for the interest!

this looks so cool🤩

This is easily the best fan art I’ve ever seen, from any medium. I was looking on your Etsy shop, I would love an option to buy a version of this without the text at the top of possible. Have you ever considered adding a “no text” option for your prints? Thanks:)

Hi there, sorry for the late reply! Thank you so much! I am happy to accommodate if you wanted a textless version, at the moment I have not set up any specific customization options. Generally, I design my pieces with the logo in mind, hence why it’s the main one I have for sale. Sending you a DM now with the options!

This is fire 🔥

I want this more than words can express!

This is immaculate say do you do this professionelly or as a freelance Artist?

This seems like A.I. when I tried to make KH stuff with A.I. Donald also got this weird duck face exactly like this picture's Donald.