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What is your favorite Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli anime film?

608 sats \ 40 comments \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 27 Nov movies

This is a poll for finding out people's favorite Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli animated film.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind5.6%

Castle in the Sky5.6%

Kiki's Delivery Service5.6%

My Neighbor Totoro22.2%

The Wind Rises or Grave of the Fireflies5.6%

Porco Rosso or Ponyo0.0%

Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away33.3%

The Boy and the Heron0.0%

Howl's Moving Castle16.7%

Other Ghibli director's films5.6%

18 votes \ poll ended

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34 sats \ 5 replies \ @Aardvark 27 Nov

Mononoke all day.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 27 Nov

I thought Mononoke was a very dark kind of vision. Until the very end it was very negative. Ashitaka and his red elk kept the vision of light throughout the movie, though.

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 27 Nov

It was just so visually stunning. I could watch it over and over.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 27 Nov

I have watched it many times because I like Ashitaka's hero's journey. Did you see Spirited Away? That was visually stunning, too.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 27 Nov

Yes I also like spirited away, but princess mononoke is my favorite.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 27 Nov

I have liked most of them because they are, by and large, happy stories. The only one I had a hard time with was Grave of the Fireflies. It was very down.

99 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bee_Aye 27 Nov

Totoro!!

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 21h

Team Totoro!

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 21h

I guess you could call Totoro the gateway anime to the Ghibli world.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 27 Nov

That was the first one I saw!! I liked it immediately and went to borrow the earlier DVDs as soon as I could.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @konstantin21 9h

what about the cat returns!?

weirdly great movie. not my all time favorite but deserves so recognition as a sleeper.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 6h

That is one that was made with a different director than Miyazaki. I left all those for another poll.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 19h

Grave of the Fireflies. But it’s so heart wrenching. I don’t think I can watch it again

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 18h

To me, it was the most heart wrenching anime I have ever seen. It was even tougher to watch than many other tragedies.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Filiprogrammer 17h

Tough decision, they are all great!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 6h

I know, i had to make the poll. Which to include and which to exclude or put on a line with another was a difficult decision.

20 sats \ 3 replies \ @Shugard 21h

It's a close call between Nausicaä and Mononoke.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 21h

What did you specifically like about them? All of the Ghibli films have very straightforward hero journeys.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Shugard 21h

In Nausicaä, I love the massage that the world is not black and white and that there is always some good hidden behind some evil and that you have to get out of your beliefs to see the truth. She would have been a bitcoiner.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 21h

Yes, that is what changed her world! The Japanese like the theme of enemies or opponents becoming friends, a lot.

20 sats \ 3 replies \ @poe7645 23h

Man this is a rough choice. I have a fondness for the Ohmu in Nausicaä... But Porco Rosso is great... And Howl's Moving Castle... Totoro... And while not Miyazaki, dare I say a movie I'll only watch once, Grave of Fireflies.

They're all great. Dammit.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 23h

Ah, yes, they are all great! I watched Grave of Fireflies only twice. It is too emotionally difficult when you understand that the plot was taken directly from personal experience. That is what the US did to Japan at the end of WWII, they were slated for genocide. They were lucky that the Korean Police Action came up!

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @poe7645 22h

It's a difficult watch. Yet brutally honest.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 22h

The brutal honesty is what makes it the film it is. It is a great anime, just hard to take.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @guts 23h

Spirited Away for sure

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 23h

This was a wonder of animation, especially that paddle-wheel boat came into dock.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 23h

Why did you group some of them together?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 23h

I had to group them together because there were not enough slots for choices. I put them together in a way that would get them to fit in the choice blocks. Had there been more slots for choices I would have put them one per slot.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 28 Nov

Howl's Moving Castle was my first, and probably my favorite. I discovered it with my daughter when she was young. We were both amazed. Over the years we have watched most of them. They're all good IMO.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 28 Nov

Yes, they are all worth watching. The poll had me doubling up some of the titles, to fit them all in. I actually have copies of almost all of them on DVDs. Every now and then I pull them out and play them.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 22h

All anime are amazing, but if I had to choose, I would pick Howl's Moving Castle.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 22h

I like them all, too. Howl's Moving Castle is a great reminder about greed and fear.

20 sats \ 3 replies \ @Roll 27 Nov

All of them :) as they re diferent moment in my life and they are diferent story ...

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 27 Nov

I like them all, too, although I have not seen the latest, yet. The Boy And The Heron just came out recently (last year). My kids cut their teeth on Tonari no Totoro.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bee_Aye 27 Nov

Playing in a theatre near you possibly! seeing any of these Gjibli movies on the big screen is a treat. Especially Mononoke

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/my-neighbor-totoro-studio-ghibli-fest-2024/

65 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 27 Nov

I first started watching them in theaters in Japan. I got the full experience there. I have to correct something from an earlier post. We never borrowed DVDs in Japan, only VHSs.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 27 Nov

Howl's. There is just so much life in that movie.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 27 Nov

Yes, that is a very telling story about life in general.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 39m

Thanks everybody for quenching my curiosity! The results of the poll are:

What is your favorite Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli anime film?

608 sats \ 39 comments \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 27 Nov movies

This is a poll for finding out people's favorite Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli animated film. NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND. 5.6% CASTLE IN THE SKY. 5.6% KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE. 5.6% MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO. 22.2% THE WIND RISES OR GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. 5.6% PORCO ROSSO OR PONYO. 0.0% PRINCESS MONONOKE OR SPIRITED AWAY. 33.3% THE BOY AND THE HERON. 0.0% HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE. 16.7% OTHER GHIBLI DIRECTOR'S FILMS. 5.6% 18 votes \ poll ended

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 27 Nov

One thing I don't like about the polls, is that I don't get to make a choice, myself.