There’s still time to be spirited away to the world of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated worlds, as the Greenfield Garden Cinemas’ Studio Ghibli Fest continues through the end of the year.

Building off the success of last year’s more-limited festival, folks still have the chance to see eight more Studio Ghibli films at the Greenfield Garden Cinemas. Theater co-owner Isaac Mass said the festival is a chance to bring back some of the most popular anime movies to the area.

“There’s a big love locally among young people and even young adults for Japanese animation,” Mass said. “Studio Ghibli is sort of the classic of that genre.”

Studio Ghibli was founded in 1985 after the great success of 1984’s “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” and immediately hit the ground running with 1988’s “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Grave of the Fireflies” both now held as two of the greatest animated movies of all time.

The studio’s movies are typically hand-drawn and given life with watercolor and acrylic paint with many of its films featuring children and teens alongside themes of tradition versus progress, the environment and the effects of war.

Packaged all together, Studio Ghibli’s films are typically family-friendly, while providing plenty of touching and thought-provoking moments for adults, which has helped many of its productions see great international success. Mass said a festival like this can bring in new and returning viewers for a medium that is sometimes hard to get at a community theater.

“It’s hard to get some of the modern anime in — that community is so small and they limit the release for those newer films. Unless it’s a big film like ‘Dragon Ball Z,’ it’s hard to get it in.” Mass said. “Studio Ghibli is something we can get and people already know and love these films … it’s a real treat to see it on the big screen.”

Tickets are $11.50 each and can be purchased online or at the box office. Because the festival is being run through Fathom Events, Mass said “Hollywood takes up to 75%” of the ticket price, so folks are encouraged to support Greenfield Garden Cinemas through concession purchases.

The festival continues through Dec. 8. The schedule is as follows:

■“Ponyo” – Aug. 4 (dubbed), Aug. 5 (subtitled).

■“Whisper of the Heart” – Aug. 25.

■“The Cat Returns” – Aug. 26.

■“Howl’s Moving Castle” – Sept. 29 and Oct. 1 (dubbed), Sept. 30 and Oct. 2 (subtitled).

■“Kiki’s Delivery Service” – Oct. 27 and Oct. 30.

■“Pom Poko” – Nov. 24.

■“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” – Nov. 25.

■“My Neighbor Totoro” – Dec. 8.

A separate Stephen King film festival will kick off on Aug. 30 and run through Oct. 4, as the cinema plays 25 films based on his novels.

Chris Larabee can be reached at clarabee@recorder.com.