Source (in Japanese, but it's directly from a shareholder's meeting)
Their last film flopped and frankly speaking the state of 2D animation worldwide isn't great, let alone in a country as saturated in it as Japan.
Ghibli itself will continue to distribute films/TV shows but the animation is being done out-of-house.
Still, the end of an era.
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