I know it's years ago but I'm not sure what's meant by "the story about the little girl," could you be getting Atsuko Fukushima and Kôji Morimoto mixed up? They're married and often work together now but it's Fukushima who's largely responsible for the look of Ôtomo's Robot Carnival segment and Rintarô's "Labyrinth * labyrinthos" in this, as character designer and animation director, while Morimoto is one of the animators of Ôtomo's "Order to Stop Construction".
And Time Masters/Le Maîtres du temps now has an extras and English dub-lacking but excellent A/V quality English subbed DVD in the UK, PAL and region-free (despite what the printing on the box and disc and Amazon will tell you). I will also slip in a recommendation for Studio 4ºC's Fluximation videos commissioned to promote Utada's Exodus; only available online and at low resolution now but some from the likes of Fukushima and Morimoto worth seeing. Also, since all this was posted, there's now a US DVD release of Kôji Yamamura's films, an indie who, with Fukushima, Morimoto and Hiroyuki Imaishi on the studio side serve to bridge the two so often and disappointingly separate worlds. Oh, and the Studio Kajino videos for the band capsule; refined and rounder than what has been previously mentioned but interesting for showing what was at the time a strikingly different side of Studio Ghibli, working under that pseudonym.
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