She was never ugly, she was frumpy and spent way too much time working on something she didn't like because it was her dad's passion, so she projected that joylessness outwardly.
Through the curse she's forced to leave that life behind and venture into the wilds, which brings her to the castle and helps her develop true bonds with people and joy for life, to the point that she even saves the witch that cursed her.
Then she gets rid of the ugly hair to save Howl, shedding the last remnants of her previous self through an act of selflessness.
>she was never ugly
of course she wasn't, that would actually make it more difficult to write and read, requiring more development and less shallowness, let's make her plain but cute enough so everybody is happy.
every time i see this shitty older anime style i feel good inside knowing it doesn't exist anymore. almost all of it looks so bad, especially in motion >sovl
what a bunch of homosexuals. i don't even watch anime and i can see that the newer stuff is better visually >it's not about the visuals
then read a book you morons
I bet you can't even tell when modern anime characters are cg and when they aren't
every time i see this shitty older anime style i feel good inside knowing it doesn't exist anymore. almost all of it looks so bad, especially in motion >sovl
what a bunch of homosexuals. i don't even watch anime and i can see that the newer stuff is better visually >it's not about the visuals
then read a book you morons
One of the Ghibli movies I never felt like watching tbh. Feels too much of a soppy chick flick story. Wasn't interested in the Totoro one either because seemed too childish
Least favorite Ghibli. Very comfy and nice scenery, but I hate the weird woman hero's journey of "woman is forced to be ugly and also make the beast man civilized so she will stop being old and ugly"
So I love Christian bale and the movie had beautiful art. However, maybe I got filtered but I truly could not fathom what the frick was the point of this movie or what I was supposed to take away from it. The ending made no sense
The basic premise is that we compartmentalize our lives and pretend to be things we’re not to try to get by in the world. Over time this drains us of who we are and as a result we risk losing ourselves.
But it’s our relationships that ultimately matter and by embracing our connection to those we care about we can find peace even if it might seem like the world is going to end
The most female Ghibli movie of them all, i only ever hear females say it's their favourite. Big female cope fantasy of being ugly and old and a young man taking them away and saving them. Careful of the road you're going down OP
He's literally me, an attractive shut-in who's my own worst enemy, but extremely smart and talented with huge potential. I just wait for a female to bring me out of my shell to learn to love both myself and her
No. Women go up to good looking guys all the time. It's just that being genuinely good looking is a rare trait in males. They will make it stupidly obvious and they don't have the inhibitions of men when it comes to approaching
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>They will make it stupidly obvious
Not obvious enough for us attractive chads with autism
3 months ago
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Even I figured it out eventually. In hindsight it‘s hilarious the type of hints you miss but w/e
im a man and i liked it, sounds like you are projecting your insecurities. maybe (You) should stay away from it if you are scared that japanese animation will turn you into a femboy
it's not projection if he's speaking the truth. it's the classic women "this is what peak peformance looks like why change" fantasy, but the male lead needs to be a 10/10 and do frickin magic lol. sounds like you're coping at the reality of that.
oh yeh and let's not mention the magical moving house, that's a swap-out for a prince in a castle. the people that make these movies know what women desire.
The most female Ghibli movie of them all, i only ever hear females say it's their favourite. Big female cope fantasy of being ugly and old and a young man taking them away and saving them. Careful of the road you're going down OP
Corpe's Bride was probably the first time people realize that Tim Burton was on auto pilot and while it's better than the utterly forgettable Frankenweenie I can see why coming after Nightmare Before Christmas it's a big disappointment. Howl's is still Miyazaki worst film despite all the revisionism twitter and YouTube seem to be pushing all because of its not too subtle "frick Bush and the war" commentary and the fact that most of these reviewers are women and gays who are horny for the title character who barely shows up in the film itself. So yeah a pretty good Wallace and Gromit film is the best one of the lot.
Mostly I'm just annoyed that the movie added an anti-war message that wasn't in the source material at all (which changed a lot of Howl's motivation and personality). Plus the movie nerfed the Witch of the Waste and never addressed Howl's origins, which was a really fun twist in the book.
Thats fair, I read the book after the movie so that tempered my expectations
>fricking time travel
lowest form of making a story interesting. plus im too much of a brainlet and get filtered. its a good movie, and i dont see how its 'anti iraq war' you would never know outside of the directors commentary.
Its just anti-war in general, it could be applied to most conflicts. The most one to one comparison is the witch/king relationship and bush/cheny, witha. dumbass pro war face to the operation and an intelligent underling pulling the strings
If its any consolation anon you're making me want to reread the book. Are the sequels worth checking out?
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So far I've only read Castle in the Air. That one had a pretty weak opening (it plays a lot of tropes from Arabian fairytales straight without really doing anything interesting). Once you reach the halfway point though it gets a lot better, and the whole ending sequence was the good kind of chaos. Haven't gotten to the House of Many Ways yet. It's on my list.
Same here but I saw the movie first too. I was surprised Ghibli chose not to adapt the big cartoonish shapeshifting battle between Howl and The Witch of the Wastes.
my wife dislikes them, also the shoujo genre, but she likes western gynocentric slope (twilight,gossip girl, romantic comedies and so on) I guess she just dislikes that typical Japanese writing
I completely agree with you that Howl's Moving Castle is kino. It's interesting that you made this thread today, because I watched Howl's Moving Castle for the first time only 2 days ago and it's my favourite Ghibli film. Apparently, it's also Miyazaki's favourite Ghibli film.
>fricking time travel
lowest form of making a story interesting. plus im too much of a brainlet and get filtered. its a good movie, and i dont see how its 'anti iraq war' you would never know outside of the directors commentary.
>prince who is mentioned in the background every now and then shows up at the end as a deus ex and ends the conflict >we don't see the conflict end, he just runs off screen >tries to wrap up all the plot points in like the final three minutes with virtually no setup or satisfying payoff
even for a studio that prides itself on 'the journey is more important than the destination', i remember howl as being pretty insulting
I like the prince deus ex machina, I always thought it was funny. As anti-war as the movie is its really about howl and sophie, so its their resolution thats the real climax
The anti war messaging was really poorly done and half-assed. It works better if you just have that as the backdrop and never try to give it a conclusion.
Not that anon, but it was very rushed, time travel out of nowhere, unclear who the primary antagonist was at that point, and did a slapdash job establishing why Sophie wanted Howl to get his heart back (It's implied that his lack of heart is turning him into a monster, but they do a poor job of establishing how grave that threat is. Will he become a monster in a day, a week, a year? There's no sense of scale or urgency)
Most computerized techniques for producing animation have made animation easier, which unfortunately also somehow always manages to cause quality to plummet like a stone.
The two tracks Mom's broom, and depressed Kiki or home sick kiki, I'm not sure, are probably legit my favorite violin pieces, the way the first violin plays that song gives me goosebumps.
What did Cinemaphile think of TBATH? I was absolutely mesmerised by the first half of the film (up till he joins the woman on her boat), loved the atmosphere and the eeriness (picrel,meeting the heron, entering the tower, the mother's effigy, the tomb). The second half felt like a letdown in comparison, but there were still some standout scenes (the pelican, the nursery).
It's easily one of Ghibli's best.
For me? The Castle of Cagliostro
>Manga dub >Solid Snake as Lupin III >Shadow the Hedgehog as The Count of Cagliostro
Based casting.
I watched these (and played the Ni No Kuni Game) should I stop or what is the bare minimum for a Ghibli enjoyer
I saw everything there except Grave of the Fireflies, Tales from Earthsea, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The Red Turtle, and Earwig and the Witch.
What did Cinemaphile think of TBATH? I was absolutely mesmerised by the first half of the film (up till he joins the woman on her boat), loved the atmosphere and the eeriness (picrel,meeting the heron, entering the tower, the mother's effigy, the tomb). The second half felt like a letdown in comparison, but there were still some standout scenes (the pelican, the nursery).
I really liked it. i watched it with french subs since Im abroad so i struggled a bit with the dialogue, but I liked what I got of it. I kept thinking as I watched it how Miyazaki said its a message for his grandson when hes no longer around, so that made the whole thing hit harder
First third was good but I don't think it paid off well, I expected something a little different, and with a little more heart. All of the reviews and video essays I watch seem up their own ass and Miyazaki/Ghibli's. I just don't think it was a good last film - but now apparently Nausicaa 2 is a thing? Bad idea to do a sequel
As an individual film it's a bit lacking in that it feels like it sets up characters and relationships that don't get resolved in a way that's entirely satisfying, but as a semi-autobiographical piece about Miyazaki and his legacy and what message he wants to leave behind for future generations, it's a lot more engaging, and the art and animation quality is maybe the best that Ghibli has ever done
Overall, I liked it
The turning point for me was when they first meet the parakeets at the house, because after that everyone keeps teleporting around to get from Point A to Point B. I like films that have a strong sense of geography where you can envision yourself exploring the environment, and Ghibli films are usually excellent at that.
Loved it. Might be the top three, maybe two films Miyazaki's made.
I felt like I could accept the vagueness of it all better than a lot of other Ghibli movies since all the moment to moment character motivations were all so simple and concrete.
A lot of very ineffable, transcendent things going with it that a more sharp-edged script wouldn't have been able to match. Score was very different from every other Ghibli movie but I thought it matched the tone perfectly.
The tons of references to western occult and hermetic stuff (as above, so below). Might be the best English dub out of any of these movies by a long shot.
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This whole scene is more kino than anything posted on this board right FRICKING now.
Sadly i didn't find the scene itself but if you know you know
I feel that it's so frequently said to be underrated, that it hasn't been so for a long time. It's pretty good, but not close to Ghibli's top tier works.
Like, I'd honestly say that The Great Mouse detective was the better film and much more overlooked at this point.
it's crazy those movies were actually made in less than a year for each
the castle of cagliostro only took 4 months to make
the boy and the heron took 7 years to make and the budget is like 20 times bigger than them even though they are basically doing the same thing
it's pretty much like video games take longer and longer to make these days
I've seen like 80% of all Lupin content and I still haven't gotten around to this one yet
The Miyazaki directed episodes of the show are high quality though
I hate the thing japs do where they shoot a bow and the bow flips around for some reason. You see it in anime occasionally.
I think it's a thing they do in Kyudo for style points, but it looks dumb, and is completely impractical for actual archers. Literally only Japan thinks this is a thing.
Every time there is an underage girl in Miyazaki movies they go out of their way to painstakingly animate up skirt angles. They don't do this with the adult women characters.Why. What is wrong with Japanese people
In a DVD bonus, he said he would sit on a bench and stare at skirts for hours on end.
He tries to pass it off as an artistic endeavor but you just KNOW he's doing it to stare at asses all day long.
I just watched the new film today.
Did anyone that knows nothing about Miyazaki's life actually enjoy the film?
Because it really only makes sense or be actually good as a film if you understand that's its about him being a piece of shit father.
Him missing is the reason the war started.
It's only mentioned by background characters so I've always chalked it up to a dropped plot line from having a new director come on halfway through production.
Him missing is the reason the war started.
It's only mentioned by background characters so I've always chalked it up to a dropped plot line from having a new director come on halfway through production.
It's a plot point from the book that was poorly adapted. He was a golem created by the wizard Suliman to find his body parts that the witch had chopped up and scattered around. The prince had been turned into a dog. Kind of. It's complicated.
I loved the reference to shamanism being the origin of wizardry/witchcraft, with those dancing colorful shadows. I always watch this movie to put me to sleep, and other Studio Ghibli.
Boss Baby was kind of good though. Mind you its box office grossed higher in Japan than A Silent Voice, which yeah only tells about its commercial rather than critical success, but I think counts for something.
I'm kind of miffed it's not called "How Do You Live?" outside of Japan, because even though it's very on the nose, at least it is confronting for a great many other people.
It's pretty clear what this film is. I have no strong opinions on it - only baseless feelings.
For me, it's the English dub
>cries because she's fugly
>just turns pretty at the end of some shit i dunno
>mfw the 'curse' was actually a blessing
You love to see it
she learned to just be herself
She was never ugly, she was frumpy and spent way too much time working on something she didn't like because it was her dad's passion, so she projected that joylessness outwardly.
Through the curse she's forced to leave that life behind and venture into the wilds, which brings her to the castle and helps her develop true bonds with people and joy for life, to the point that she even saves the witch that cursed her.
Then she gets rid of the ugly hair to save Howl, shedding the last remnants of her previous self through an act of selflessness.
>she was never ugly
of course she wasn't, that would actually make it more difficult to write and read, requiring more development and less shallowness, let's make her plain but cute enough so everybody is happy.
She wasn’t ugly, just self conscious because she was a Plain Jane compared to her sister.
mogged
Still retains the old lady hair
howls moving butthole
The boy and the hardon
kikis delivery cervix
Pornyo on the stiff
butthole in the sky
Princess mondo wienerhole
The Dick Rises
Poon, yo
Very cute film
this is the best one
I bet you can't even tell when modern anime characters are cg and when they aren't
11 Ponyo
10 Porco Rosso
9 Castle of Cagliostro
8 The Wind Rises
7 Howls Moving Castle
6 Kiki
5 Totoro
4 Castle in the Sky
3 Nausicaa
2 Spirited Away
1 Princess Mononoke
Haven't seen Boy and the Heron yet
Watched it again with mom last week, she liked it
>10 Porco Rosso
>9 Castle of Cagliostro
>8 The Wind Rises
>7 Howls Moving Castle
Jesus Christ anon..
What's wrong
The ranking is pretty close
every time i see this shitty older anime style i feel good inside knowing it doesn't exist anymore. almost all of it looks so bad, especially in motion
>sovl
what a bunch of homosexuals. i don't even watch anime and i can see that the newer stuff is better visually
>it's not about the visuals
then read a book you morons
Stale bait, maybe go to some fish tank live thread those guys are morons I'm sure you'll be some decent yous over there
>if you're not this homosexual then you're that homosexual
it wasn't bait you're just insecure because you know it's true
>older anime style
It's from 2004.
so what? it could have been from 2024. i said style, moron
>i said style,
It obviously makes heavy use of digital compositing
2004 was 20 years ago.
>tfw 2004 was 60 years ago
Nah. Ghibli still has that older style to their films, even to this day and even with that one 3D film they made.
L + ratio + touch grass, broccoli head
One day zoomers will be hunted for sport like the animals they are.
Shut up moeshitter
>what's wrong with falling for a 12 year old girl?
- Miyazaki
One of the Ghibli movies I never felt like watching tbh. Feels too much of a soppy chick flick story. Wasn't interested in the Totoro one either because seemed too childish
Totoro is definitely too childish, I didn't watch it til I was an adult, and I didn't like it.
But Howl is a good story.
Well Totoro is all about children and innocence, nature etc. I think you can still appreciate it as an adult.
>tfw you will never take the catbus
>But Howl is a good story
Is it?
It feels like the story had no idea what it wants to be.
The ending is weak so it doesn’t quite come together, but it’s still good. Honestly all of Miyazaki’s lesser films feel that way
Probably because it's a butchered hack job adaptation
I found it boring enough to forget.
Don't worry, some people aren't meant to raise children
I'd show it to my kids gladly, I just don't really enjoy it as an adult.
>Totoro
>is comfy and had sovl
Howl is prob one of his least interesting films.
I liked it.
I wanna live there bros
There are literally 0 bipocs to be seen, so yeah of course you do you racist fricking chud.
Cool it with the antisemitism
Strasbourg, France
Holy shit you're so right anon. I was there in November so it was snowy and grey, but the look of the town is just like that
i wanna bomb it bros
What's Ingary supposed to be?
Towns in eastern France that blend German and French architecture and culture, like Colmar and Strausbourg.
Thanks anon
for me it's princess kaguya and only yesterday
>you'll never walk out your front door into the open sky, and turn into a monster to battle warships
Least favorite Ghibli. Very comfy and nice scenery, but I hate the weird woman hero's journey of "woman is forced to be ugly and also make the beast man civilized so she will stop being old and ugly"
The book was apparently better with Sophie acting more like a girlboss than soft but stern
So I love Christian bale and the movie had beautiful art. However, maybe I got filtered but I truly could not fathom what the frick was the point of this movie or what I was supposed to take away from it. The ending made no sense
The basic premise is that we compartmentalize our lives and pretend to be things we’re not to try to get by in the world. Over time this drains us of who we are and as a result we risk losing ourselves.
But it’s our relationships that ultimately matter and by embracing our connection to those we care about we can find peace even if it might seem like the world is going to end
The most female Ghibli movie of them all, i only ever hear females say it's their favourite. Big female cope fantasy of being ugly and old and a young man taking them away and saving them. Careful of the road you're going down OP
If you identify with the Attractive bird man wizard it’s kino
He's literally me, an attractive shut-in who's my own worst enemy, but extremely smart and talented with huge potential. I just wait for a female to bring me out of my shell to learn to love both myself and her
Doubt it. If you were attractive women would make it obvious and you would have plenty of women propositioning to you
Nah, women expect you as a man to do that no matter what, i'm just waiting for the one who goes against the stream
No. Women go up to good looking guys all the time. It's just that being genuinely good looking is a rare trait in males. They will make it stupidly obvious and they don't have the inhibitions of men when it comes to approaching
>They will make it stupidly obvious
Not obvious enough for us attractive chads with autism
Even I figured it out eventually. In hindsight it‘s hilarious the type of hints you miss but w/e
You also fight the increasingly hostile government through a shadow war you wage with your wizard powers via astral projection from your bed room
Basically, but i do it all from my computer
You sound like a woman beater
Do you also have autistic meltdowns when you choose the wrong hair dye by accident?
How do you not?
yooooo he just like me frfr
im a man and i liked it, sounds like you are projecting your insecurities. maybe (You) should stay away from it if you are scared that japanese animation will turn you into a femboy
it's not projection if he's speaking the truth. it's the classic women "this is what peak peformance looks like why change" fantasy, but the male lead needs to be a 10/10 and do frickin magic lol. sounds like you're coping at the reality of that.
oh yeh and let's not mention the magical moving house, that's a swap-out for a prince in a castle. the people that make these movies know what women desire.
luffy and sanji?
Of the ghibli films ive seen its the most 'for girls only' one. Princess mononoke still undefeated
howls tranime castle
why do women love this movie so much?
Boy and the Heron is his worst movie so far.
not when Ponyo exists
Should it have won the academy award?
Lilo and Stitch was better than spirited away, howls was better than wallace and grommit
Black person opinion
All of these seem correct to me. I love a lot of Ghibli movies but Howl's Moving Castle is so boring.
Corpe's Bride was probably the first time people realize that Tim Burton was on auto pilot and while it's better than the utterly forgettable Frankenweenie I can see why coming after Nightmare Before Christmas it's a big disappointment. Howl's is still Miyazaki worst film despite all the revisionism twitter and YouTube seem to be pushing all because of its not too subtle "frick Bush and the war" commentary and the fact that most of these reviewers are women and gays who are horny for the title character who barely shows up in the film itself. So yeah a pretty good Wallace and Gromit film is the best one of the lot.
WTF was going on in the boy and the heron
it barely had any thoughline. just a bunch of scenes loosely tied together.
it's an anthology of scenes 🙂
WTF was going on in Fantasia
it barely had any thoughline. just a bunch of scenes loosely tied together.
>what is an Anthology film
The book was much better. I recommend reading that instead.
>The book was much better
That's the case with 99% of adaptations.
I thought the book was ok. The movie stuck with me more.
Mostly I'm just annoyed that the movie added an anti-war message that wasn't in the source material at all (which changed a lot of Howl's motivation and personality). Plus the movie nerfed the Witch of the Waste and never addressed Howl's origins, which was a really fun twist in the book.
what were his origins in the book
He's Welsh.
No I am not joking
KEK
KEKEKEK
He's from our world, Wales specifically, and has family there who think he's a deadbeat.
Thats fair, I read the book after the movie so that tempered my expectations
Its just anti-war in general, it could be applied to most conflicts. The most one to one comparison is the witch/king relationship and bush/cheny, witha. dumbass pro war face to the operation and an intelligent underling pulling the strings
>and an intelligent underling pulling the strings
I forgot the movie butchered Howl's teacher like that too. Now I'm getting mad all over again.
If its any consolation anon you're making me want to reread the book. Are the sequels worth checking out?
So far I've only read Castle in the Air. That one had a pretty weak opening (it plays a lot of tropes from Arabian fairytales straight without really doing anything interesting). Once you reach the halfway point though it gets a lot better, and the whole ending sequence was the good kind of chaos. Haven't gotten to the House of Many Ways yet. It's on my list.
Same here but I saw the movie first too. I was surprised Ghibli chose not to adapt the big cartoonish shapeshifting battle between Howl and The Witch of the Wastes.
all of Miyazaki's movies suck dick and are gynocentric
the only thing thats gynocentric is my penis brother hell yeah HH
NOPE
BAD
>gynocentric
it's fine, he did it before it was a trend
my wife dislikes them, also the shoujo genre, but she likes western gynocentric slope (twilight,gossip girl, romantic comedies and so on) I guess she just dislikes that typical Japanese writing
Best film of all time.
>Princess Mononoke (1997)
>Spirited Away (2001)
>Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
That was a good trio
Castle in the Sky beats these all easily.
i wish the japs hadn't abandoned ancient sky cities after the 80s. they're peak soul aesthetics
Agreed.
I completely agree with you that Howl's Moving Castle is kino. It's interesting that you made this thread today, because I watched Howl's Moving Castle for the first time only 2 days ago and it's my favourite Ghibli film. Apparently, it's also Miyazaki's favourite Ghibli film.
>fricking time travel
lowest form of making a story interesting. plus im too much of a brainlet and get filtered. its a good movie, and i dont see how its 'anti iraq war' you would never know outside of the directors commentary.
it's painful to remind myself of so much beautiful times...
>that ending
absolutely insane how bad the finale was, and that's saying a lot considering ghibli's other films.
Which part irked you? I like most of it
nta but from what I remember
>prince who is mentioned in the background every now and then shows up at the end as a deus ex and ends the conflict
>we don't see the conflict end, he just runs off screen
>tries to wrap up all the plot points in like the final three minutes with virtually no setup or satisfying payoff
even for a studio that prides itself on 'the journey is more important than the destination', i remember howl as being pretty insulting
I like the prince deus ex machina, I always thought it was funny. As anti-war as the movie is its really about howl and sophie, so its their resolution thats the real climax
The anti war messaging was really poorly done and half-assed. It works better if you just have that as the backdrop and never try to give it a conclusion.
As much as people sell it as an anti-war movie, its really just a love story with a "frick you bush" thrown out in the middle
Not that anon, but it was very rushed, time travel out of nowhere, unclear who the primary antagonist was at that point, and did a slapdash job establishing why Sophie wanted Howl to get his heart back (It's implied that his lack of heart is turning him into a monster, but they do a poor job of establishing how grave that threat is. Will he become a monster in a day, a week, a year? There's no sense of scale or urgency)
I wouldn't call Miyazaki's movies kino by the standard definition. But they are a unique special form of kino.
3dcg was the death of animation
Most computerized techniques for producing animation have made animation easier, which unfortunately also somehow always manages to cause quality to plummet like a stone.
I liked it, but wish there were more actual magic and ritual in it (e.g. the bit where Howl restructures the house)
The two tracks Mom's broom, and depressed Kiki or home sick kiki, I'm not sure, are probably legit my favorite violin pieces, the way the first violin plays that song gives me goosebumps.
Do you know the track played while she's entering the city on the broomstick? Very late romantic kind of neoclassicism.
That's a good song too.
She is so motherfricking hot with grey hair for some reason
the ponytail didn't suit her face shape
Why did she stuck with the grey hair? To remind the audience what her journey was?
>le out of nowhere
The whole fricking setting of the fricking movie is a castle that opens its door to different places you stupid Black person monkey
>different places
>time travel
This is probably Miyazaki's worst film but I still love it.
Ponyo is easily worse.
It's easily one of Ghibli's best.
>Manga dub
>Solid Snake as Lupin III
>Shadow the Hedgehog as The Count of Cagliostro
Based casting.
I saw everything there except Grave of the Fireflies, Tales from Earthsea, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The Red Turtle, and Earwig and the Witch.
Ponyo is one of the greatest films ever made.
Ponyo is the greatest animated film of all time, with the only one you could argue to challenge it being Fantasia 1940
>there will never be a Miyazaki Pippi Longstocking movie
What did Cinemaphile think of TBATH? I was absolutely mesmerised by the first half of the film (up till he joins the woman on her boat), loved the atmosphere and the eeriness (picrel,meeting the heron, entering the tower, the mother's effigy, the tomb). The second half felt like a letdown in comparison, but there were still some standout scenes (the pelican, the nursery).
I have built it up in my mind to be absolute transcendent kino that will make me weep, so I will probably be disappointed.
i was sick with pneumonia for its entire theater run
I really liked it. i watched it with french subs since Im abroad so i struggled a bit with the dialogue, but I liked what I got of it. I kept thinking as I watched it how Miyazaki said its a message for his grandson when hes no longer around, so that made the whole thing hit harder
First third was good but I don't think it paid off well, I expected something a little different, and with a little more heart. All of the reviews and video essays I watch seem up their own ass and Miyazaki/Ghibli's. I just don't think it was a good last film - but now apparently Nausicaa 2 is a thing? Bad idea to do a sequel
As an individual film it's a bit lacking in that it feels like it sets up characters and relationships that don't get resolved in a way that's entirely satisfying, but as a semi-autobiographical piece about Miyazaki and his legacy and what message he wants to leave behind for future generations, it's a lot more engaging, and the art and animation quality is maybe the best that Ghibli has ever done
Overall, I liked it
The turning point for me was when they first meet the parakeets at the house, because after that everyone keeps teleporting around to get from Point A to Point B. I like films that have a strong sense of geography where you can envision yourself exploring the environment, and Ghibli films are usually excellent at that.
Loved it. Might be the top three, maybe two films Miyazaki's made.
I felt like I could accept the vagueness of it all better than a lot of other Ghibli movies since all the moment to moment character motivations were all so simple and concrete.
A lot of very ineffable, transcendent things going with it that a more sharp-edged script wouldn't have been able to match. Score was very different from every other Ghibli movie but I thought it matched the tone perfectly.
The tons of references to western occult and hermetic stuff (as above, so below). Might be the best English dub out of any of these movies by a long shot.
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This whole scene is more kino than anything posted on this board right FRICKING now.
Sadly i didn't find the scene itself but if you know you know
For me? The Castle of Cagliostro
Gotta be one of the best directorial debuts ever
Underrated I feel.
I feel that it's so frequently said to be underrated, that it hasn't been so for a long time. It's pretty good, but not close to Ghibli's top tier works.
Like, I'd honestly say that The Great Mouse detective was the better film and much more overlooked at this point.
it's crazy those movies were actually made in less than a year for each
the castle of cagliostro only took 4 months to make
the boy and the heron took 7 years to make and the budget is like 20 times bigger than them even though they are basically doing the same thing
it's pretty much like video games take longer and longer to make these days
nice quote, interesting how a massive doomer made so many kino
I've seen like 80% of all Lupin content and I still haven't gotten around to this one yet
The Miyazaki directed episodes of the show are high quality though
I wish the 2000 dub could be found online
Takahata is great too.
holy shit this looks so bad
It looks alright.
I hate the thing japs do where they shoot a bow and the bow flips around for some reason. You see it in anime occasionally.
I think it's a thing they do in Kyudo for style points, but it looks dumb, and is completely impractical for actual archers. Literally only Japan thinks this is a thing.
you have autism though
I watched these (and played the Ni No Kuni Game) should I stop or what is the bare minimum for a Ghibli enjoyer
Watch everything besides tales from earthsea and the cgi one
I can't believe Mary and the Witch's Flower isn't studio Ghibli. They absolutely nailed the style.
It was a collab between Studio Ponoc, a new studio made up of ex-Ghibli animators. And also Studio Khara, Hideaki Anno's studio.
Ocean Waves is kino
For me it is Kiki's Delivery Service.
It is top comfykino.
Girls riding on brooms is incredibly lewd.
Only if you're a weirdo.
Just think about it tho and you'll realize why it is so lewd.
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I do like 80/90s anime.
I started watching this and it's pretty good.
art looks cute
Poor man's Kino's Journey. Or Spice and Wolf. Or any story at all where the character meets other people on adventures and that's the gimmick.
Boy and the Heron sucked
Well don't spoil it for me.
god I want to lick norikos sweaty body
God, Gunbuster is so fricking good.
Best mecha.
Mononoke, Nausicaa, Porco, and Howl's are my favorite Ghiblis.
Every time there is an underage girl in Miyazaki movies they go out of their way to painstakingly animate up skirt angles. They don't do this with the adult women characters.Why. What is wrong with Japanese people
You sound like a homosexual
In a DVD bonus, he said he would sit on a bench and stare at skirts for hours on end.
He tries to pass it off as an artistic endeavor but you just KNOW he's doing it to stare at asses all day long.
You sound like an American
I just watched the new film today.
Did anyone that knows nothing about Miyazaki's life actually enjoy the film?
Because it really only makes sense or be actually good as a film if you understand that's its about him being a piece of shit father.
Howl's moving castle is Miyazaki's weakest film, followed by how do you live
>oh btw I was actually a long lost prince this whole time byeeeee
WTF was this shit about? Was there a deleted scene or something?
Him missing is the reason the war started.
It's only mentioned by background characters so I've always chalked it up to a dropped plot line from having a new director come on halfway through production.
It's just fairy tale logic.
It's a plot point from the book that was poorly adapted. He was a golem created by the wizard Suliman to find his body parts that the witch had chopped up and scattered around. The prince had been turned into a dog. Kind of. It's complicated.
underrated and masterful adaption
Depression core.
I love this film
>everyone thought it was gay until it turned out it was her grandma
kino
I reckon it's still gay regardless of them being related.
the voice actor for howl is the idol guy in those sega video games
No. But he is Yagami in the Judgment games.
I cannot enjoy anime or videogames any more
Once you become a wage slave, it's ogre
Ghibli thread? Okay, can someone please explain why Earthsea gets so much flack? I had a great time with it.
it was a narrative disaster
worst miyazaki film
>ghibli slop
No thanks, I only watch manime.
> hairline all the way down to his eyebrows leaving no forehead
Was golgo a spic?
I loved the reference to shamanism being the origin of wizardry/witchcraft, with those dancing colorful shadows. I always watch this movie to put me to sleep, and other Studio Ghibli.
I'm still mad that A Silent Voice was snubbed by fricking Boss Baby.
A non-Ghibli anime film winning an Oscar would have been huge.
Yeah.
Doomercore.
Boss Baby was kind of good though. Mind you its box office grossed higher in Japan than A Silent Voice, which yeah only tells about its commercial rather than critical success, but I think counts for something.
I sincerely do not understand the love for this movie.
Howl is a terrible movie. Now Porco Rosso, on the other hand...
>yes i love Howl's moving castle, how could you tell?
one of the GOAT's
>One Summer's Day
I'm kind of miffed it's not called "How Do You Live?" outside of Japan, because even though it's very on the nose, at least it is confronting for a great many other people.
It's pretty clear what this film is. I have no strong opinions on it - only baseless feelings.
Is this image true? Was Sophie a b***h in the original book?
Miyazaki sucks. Watch Dragon Ball Super for some good anime.
t. spic
Why is Ghibli the only anime studio that is respected by normies?
Consider, when Walt Disney was the only white major, America made good movies like Studio Ghibli's. Now it's just israeli propaganda
>raining outside
>Princess Mononoke on VHS
>shitty English dub
>pan and scan fullscreen
>tiny CRT screen
The way it was meant to be seen.
This, except it's in Japanese without subtitles so you can't understand wtf is going on.
I loved this movie the first time I saw it but I like it less with every rewatch
I want to cross the river and see the bustling spirit world
No Face did nothing wrong.
what was his deal
He just wanted to belong.
I liked it.
its my favorite one
Ghibli is absolute bliss. Literally makes life way less miserable, the way all true art should.