Netflix offers Aya and the Witch, the first 3D Ghibli movie

The partnership between the streaming giant and the giant of Japanese animation is growing.

After several successive postponements,

, Studio Ghibli's first animated feature film, will receive a digital global release on Netflix on November 18, the US distributor announced this month.

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The agreement will allow the film to join the catalog of Ghibli feature films already present on the platform since early 2020, outside of Japan and the United States. A safe bet for the streaming giant which has already generated 55 million views worldwide (figures put forward by Netflix).

Aya and the witch

, announced in a press release Aram Yacoubian, in charge of animated films at Netflix.

Broadcast last year in Japan and available since February in the United States, on the HBO Max platform,

was previewed in France in October 2020, at the Lumière Festival. The Covid crisis has, however, repeatedly pushed back the prospects of seeing the film in theaters. Where it will therefore not be broadcast, at least in France. Despite a health situation for the time being rather calm, the Covid-19 epidemic continues to shake up, more or less directly, the calendar of global outings. Without citing the coronavirus, Disney again announced, Monday, the postponement of several expected blockbusters, such as the next

.

Adapted from a children's book by British novelist Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011),

tells the story of an orphan girl adopted by a couple of enigmatic wizards.

Freshly welcomed in the United States.

The feature film is the third film by Gorō Miyazaki, the son of historic Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, behind the studio's most famous works such as

,

or

.

Father and son share the same taste for the enchanted prose of Diana Wynne Jones, since another of her novels had inspired

.