(CNN) -- Watch a movie from acclaimed Japanese animators Studio Ghibli, and you might see a boy turn into a flying dragon, a deer morph into a monstrous god, or a fish transform into a young girl. But with the retirement last year of Hayao Miyazaki, the studio's legendary co-founder, signs suggest the venerable and inimitable company is headed for a transformation of its own. In a Japanese TV interview last Friday, Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki said the firm needed to "think about its future," and would be "changing the way we make (animation)." He also speculated that Miyazaki might "make something again," though it might be a no more than a short film for the Studio Ghibli museum.

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Ghibli) is like a great violin, a Stradivarius maybe, in the hands of two great musicians.