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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013). π€ βThe Procession of Celestial Beings Iβ by Joe Hisaishi is such an ethereal piece of music.
Mononoke is probably the "best" in my book but my personal favorite will always be Nausicaa. Although I just found out it predates the founding of studio Ghibli by one year.
Little personal story: As a kid, I repeatedly rented an animated movie called Warriors of the Wind from my local videostore. It was fairly short and the story was confusing as if there was something missing, but I loved it regardless. One day, the videostore didn't have it anymore since they got rid of older VHS in favour of newer ones. I was heartbroken and didn't managed to track it down (this was way before the internet).
Fast forward about 15 years, when I had already watched Princess Mononoke and wanted to watch other movies by that studio. So I watched Nausicaa, and the longer it ran, the more I realized it was that movie from my childhood.
Turns out that a US studio had gotten the rights in the 80s and cut 23 minutes of the run time to make the story simpler, even changing names completely (Nausicaa became princess Sandra for example). This was the version I saw as a kid.
Nausicaa is my favorite, too. The hand-drawn animation is incredible, the conflict is nuanced, the setting is beautiful, and the characters have interesting motivations. Its a masterpiece.
a fellow Nausicaa appreciator! It's hard to find people that have even seen it tbh.
Agreed, and I never see anyone claim Nausicaa as their favourite. If the studio ever revisits earlier material, I hope they do a fuller adaptation of the source. It's such a rich world, it deserves more time spent within it.
Yeah, Castle in the Sky is considered the first "official" Ghibli movie.
I'd also have a pre-Ghibli film as my favourite with Lupin III: Castle of the Cagliostro. Although hard to argue with Mononoke or Nausicaa.
Huge fan of Princess Mononoke.
Not sure what exactly it is, but the characters and setting have just stuck with me since the first time I saw it.
Love the themes of environmentalism and societal diversity in Princess Mononoke.
Same.
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Porco Rosso
Spirited Away
Ponyo
I like Only Yesterday. There's just something appealing about getting away from a stifling job in the city and just going out to live in the country for fun, even if just for a week.
Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle, and My Totro.
This is an impossible question to answer. I thought about it for at least a minute before giving up.
Only recently, I watched The Wind Rises and I loved it. I do not know what it is. It still has the sensitivity and the aesthetics of Ghibli under Miyazaki, which I genuinely love, but at the same time shows a confusing and unobvious real-life story, and very real dilemmas.
Havenβt seen all of them yet, but so far itβs Kikiβs Delivery Service.
I've only seen three (Spirited Away, Nausicaa, and The Wind Rises), and Spirited Away was long enough ago that I don't remember much about it. But I loved both Nausicaa and Wind; if I had to pick a favorite it would probably be Wind just because the historical context drew me in even more than I already was.
