Talk:Topcraft

ghibli
The Hayao Miyazaki Web, an early and significant fan collective, argues that many of the animators working at Topcraft moved to the newly formed Studio Ghibli when Topcraft shuttered its feature film production studio mid-1985 (Team Ghiblink n.d.).

... (for more, see Clements  and  McCarthy  2006). ... Miyazaki  co-founded  his  Studio  Ghibli  at  the  behest  of  Tokuma  shoten  in  1985  only  after  that  initial  film’s  success  (see  Yoshioka,  this  collection).

sources are:

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nausicaa/faq.html#studio

Clements, Jonathan and McCarthy, Helen (2006), The Anime Encyclopedia, rev. and expanded ed., Berkeley, CA: Stonebridge Press.

Yoshioka -> also in this journal? https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/eapc/2018/00000004/00000001/art00004