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newtsnaturethings · 1 year ago

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Your Opinion on Ghibli movies.

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Okay. So I will put the caveat that I stopped watching Ghibli movies after I was sorely disappointed with the Ghibli take on “Tales of Earthsea”, so any of my opinions are gonna be applied to only the ones I’ve actually seen.

Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind: amazing. Soft apocalypse with massive bugs and a spooky jungle. Great environmental message. I would love a pet fox squirrel. Nausicaä is awesome and I want her wind glider. The ending never fails to make me cry. You see the origins of the “girl with strong connection to nature with a guy who loves and supports her” theme.

Castle in the Sky: this one’s one of my favorites. Giant super weapon and soft apocalypse vibes. The protagonists are ride or die. And “girl with strong connection to nature with a guy who loves and supports her”. The sky pirates are wonderful and the villain is so much fun (he’s a complete asshole).

Grave of the Fireflies: watched it once. I’m good.

My Neighbor Totoro: this is the second movie I ever watched. I love Totoro. And the Catbus. In fact I think we should invest in Catbus as a means of public transportation.

Kiki’s Delivery Service: this movie hits different when your an adult. Kiki’s journey and the burn out she eventually gets like. Definitely a comfort movie, but Kiki’s journey resonates with me. Oh and I want to live in that cabin in the woods with all the crows.

Porco Rosso: I too, would rather be a pig than a fascist.

Whisper of the Heart: this one’s just sweet. Like. It’s so cute and wholesome.

Princess Mononoke: look. Look. This movie changed me as a person. I saw this as a kid and boom..that was it. San lives with wolves and lives in the forest. Ashitaka is awesome and badass and rides a deer. Also like. The themes of this movie. It’s got the strong environmental message about the importance of living in community with nature, but there’s a lot of shades of grey. You see all sides of the story and it’s fantastic. I could talk about this movie for hours. And it has that classic “girl with strong connection to nature with a guy who loves and supports her”. Ashitaka and San are looking out for each other and it’s great.

Spirited Away: another excellent one. I think this one has my favorite soundtrack. And Chihiro’s journey to find herself and save Haku. I don’t have much else to say on this one. Go watch it it’s great.

The Cat Returns: it’s got walking cats. What more could you want.

Howls Moving Castle: I have to view this one as a separate entity from the book it’s (supposedly) based on. I enjoy this one as its own thing; the Howls Moving Castle book is like…so good. One of my favs. Anyways. Movie Howl - the feathery hug between Howl and Sophie low key rewired my brain chemistry.

Overall I just love these movies. The art is incredible and remains a huge inspiration to me, and you can see how much love gets put into those nature scenes. I could stare at then endlessly. And I love how Hiyao Miyazaki shows love in his movies, where like. The two protagonists help each other grow and make it a goal to live for each other. They accept each other where they are and are ride or die for each other. I just. That shit gets to me. Love it.

Thanks for the ask (and letting me ramble)🦎

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a-queenoffairys · 1 year ago

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Three ships:

Odd/Sam K. (Code Lyoko) - they've been on my mind the most lately. She doesn't appear often but I like the side of Odd we get to see when she's around, and I like her, and they like each other, and it's great.

Komi/Tadano (Komi Can't Communicate) - they're both sweet and really cute together and I got excited when they confessed to each other.

Marinette/Adrien (Miraculous Ladybug) - I've liked them since the start of the show and I've enjoyed seeing the newer seasons explore the different pairings in the love square.

First ever ship: I'm sure there were romantic pairings I liked in media I watched/read as a kid, but I can't think what they would have been. But if we're talking around the time I discovered fandom, that would be Ulumi and Jerlita from Code Lyoko. I still like and ship both to some extent and with some caveats, but I don't really do much with them in fandom at the moment.

Last song: Choose Your Fighter by Ava Max, because it's the last song on the Barbie soundtrack. Thinking about getting the deluxe edition but kinda miffed that that's a thing. If I'd known they would leave some songs off the original album just to release them on another CD a while later, I would have waited to get it >:T Anyway the whole soundtrack is great.

Currently reading:

The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin - I recently finished Tehanu and Tales From Earthsea is next. Decided to give it a shot after seeing positive reviews and they were right, it is a good series set in a really unique world.

Ghost Hunters Adventure Club: The Secret of the Grande Chateau by Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills - also heard good things about it, but I've only just started it.

Jackrabbit and the Beast: A Jackrabbit Brujo Tale by Bre Garcia - just finished reading recently, and so should you, it is good :3 :3 :3

Currently watching: Rewatching BBC Merlin with @dialovers, and slowly getting through Our Flag Means Death season 2.

Currently consuming: Yoghurt with fruit

Currently craving: Chicken parmigiana pie from Heatherbrae's. Their whole gluten free range is just 👌 but that one's my favourite. If you live in NSW I'd definitely recommend seeing if they have a shop near you.

Uhhh tags - @yoshistack @orville-redenbacher-space-hero @pigeonsparty @sapphiclizziebennet @sheepydraws @cosmicpines @meandmyechoes @dialovers @littlemomentsofgold if you would like to participate 👍

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the-stephen-mcclanahan · 10 months ago

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Toriyama and The Super Villain share One Beer upon the Lathe of Heaven

"Fuck bitches, get money." – Bulma, probably

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I'm really fucked up about Toriyama-san passing. This is a series of unmeasured mournings I've never had the chance to process. Death is around every corner; beware, here there be Dragon(s) {Ball}.

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Gadzooks, Punk's Dead

Stella was 19 and waifish; picture a whispy, mud-grey shorthair cat on spindly legs with one glassy eye, her haggard mew calling through night and day like an omen. She would leap from high places her joints had no right to hold up against. I loved that beleaguered creature with all my heart. When my ex introduced me to her the first time I visited her apartment, I felt my soul tether to this witchy feline.

In January 2022, while my then-partner was away with her mother on a beach trip, I watched as the reliably lively kitty crone lay lonely through the day, her cold demeanor echoing the silence I knew in my gut meant something was wrong. She wouldn't join me on the bed that night, and when I awoke I found her prone in the dirty litter box tucked away in the closet. Her breathing was shallow and her cries quiet, and through hot flashes of tears, I swaddled her while I made phone calls to the coast and the vet and anyone who would listen. I didn't know when I handed her over to the VCA that I was loving her for the last time, that she had fought to live long enough that I could escort her to the Gates. I told her I loved her, but in my fear, I never thought to thank her.

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Take Me to Your Leader

Why is it always fucking Instagram? New Year's Eve 2020 – months of anguished self-interrogation at the thought of stepping outside the house crudely shoved into its ill-fitting psychic compartment like so much crinkled Christmas wrapping paper – and the cosmic saxophone playing us off the stage dampens to a wet fart when XXL reports on my timeline that DOOM departed Primary Reality on Halloween. The soundtrack of my young adulthood scratched, DJ falling face-first onto the Wheels of Steel, no beat in his heart; we've been ratted out, boys, so cheese it, before the Heat comes on.

Daniel Dumile was a different breed; he didn't want the cult or the recognition. He wanted to make dope shit. Go listen to the Red Bull interview again. The Mask wasn't a gimmick, it was him; he polished the cracks and snags of his optics until there was no tactile humanity to cling on to, a mirror shine of accountability on his metal for every pimple-faced geek like me who looked up to him. It was never about Dumile. He was there in the rhymes, in the beats. We obsessed over alter egos and collaborations and SAMPLES – would I have cared about Sade Adu without the Villain? – and he croaked having only ever wanted to make dope shit.

DOOM comes for us all.

I never got to thank him.

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The Wall Around the Place

In 2018, on an errant trip to my folks', I stumbled across a repost of Ursula K. Le Guin's National Book Awards speech with the caption "R.I.P.". My mother graced me with several rare (for us) minutes of silence when I told her I didn't know how to be. When I left my childhood home a half-an-hour later, the air was astringent and the wet-land pasture outside my window buzzed with insect chatter.

The Earthsea books are everything I aspire to in my creative work. Le Guin covered more of the human soul in sentences a fraction of the length these fucking dorks propped up by the ~ C A N O N ~ could've dreamed to pen. She liberally seasoned her work with radical ideologies and served it all wrapped in fairy-tale fantasy and, whelp, I've pretty much chased that feeling since middle school. I still haven't found it.

She was a long-time resident of Portland and spoke regularly at events in the city. At that point in my life, I'd lived an hour away from her. I never got to thank her.

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Journey to the (Pacific North)West

Silverton High School's library in 2009 was brand new off a bond measure issued 20 years before, and each ripple from those taxpayer dollars over the years brought Dragon Ball Vol. 1 nearer to the front desk display counter where I initially found it. The bright red cover featuring a child Goku recalled hours of my youth yearning for the Z-Fighters in action I was forbidden from by my reactionary parents. I picked up the book with a curiosity steeped in taboo.

God*DAMN, that book annihilated my 14-year-old brain; martial arts battles and panty jokes and nazi-coded bad guys and magic orbs that summoned a dragon to grant your wish and how THA FUK was this in Bum-fuck-Nowhere, Oregon? On a high school library bookshelf?

[ No, seriously, how in THE ACTUAL FUCK was this in my public school library?!?!]

When I exhausted the 3 volumes in the school, I stalked through the town library, scraped together rare side-job dollars for bookstores, and clawed at low-res scans on shady websites. Dragon Ball was the first manga I read cover-to-cover, not to mention my gateway into almost every other thing I would obsess over for the next decade-and-a-half. There is a direct line of influence from my years of martial arts training to finding Dragon Ball to picking up Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, ruining me forever. Without Goku's adventures, I wouldn't have fallen in love with Hip–Hop; I never would have gotten fit; no Neon Genesis for me, and everything that comes with it. Hell, DOOM's sonic universe of comic-book shenanigans probably owes some debt to Akira Toriyama for my avid fixation. So many lives have touched mine for ripples from the rock dropped by Dragon Ball into the river of my soul.

Toriyama's passing this month is cold and familiar, an estranged uncle you never felt the pressing urge to know until it was too late. I've played in his sandbox countless times, running the gamut of emotion through every fantasy he painstakingly crafted within those pages. Dragon Ball is not just my childhood but the majority of my life, intimate in the way only boon companions can be. I've never known much about Toriyama Akira outside of his oeuvre, and his death is a wound deeper than any blade or bullet can bring because I am not here without Stelly or Metal Face or Le Guin or Toriyama-sensei.

I never got a chance to thank him.

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Boldly Go

I was 8 when we scattered Robert's ashes.

We set out for the Oregon coast, our party of faintly realized familial connections from around the States, and found an unremarkable cove for our bitter deed. I was too young to know what ~absence~ – as in a lifetime – could mean; to me, Uncle Bob was returning Home, the waves a sublime chariot into the Beyond. I had known he was sick, but not quite in the way I knew Stella was sick; visits to his Portland apartment – wall-to-wall, top-to-bottom with the gleam of bagged and boarded single-issue comic books – were filled with tense silence as the subject of his terminal condition was daintily avoided by my mother, beside herself with stoic grief.

Robert was the first person I can remember who loved me unconditionally; who doted on me just for existing; who staged elaborate magic tricks that flourished with X-Men comics and Star Trek episodes to misdirect me from his predictable disappearance. HIV is a bitch of a Final Boss and my uncle became yet another barely-closeted gay man with fringe interests to stain the legacy of his conservative bloodline by succumbing to its cruel assault. I loved him and didn't know how to mourn him because I had never mourned a death before, and my models for that ritual didn't either, fearing him as much as they loved him, too.

The countable hours I shared with my uncle before his passing were the first cracks in the foundation of my stasis, the punctuation hanging at the end of every doubt. Without my Uncle, I never join GSA in high school, and never find all of the Queer people I keep close to my heart; without my mother's love beyond fear for her brother, I never learn to love art as I love life; without Robert, I never find Dragon Ball.

As we sent his ashes drifting into the Pacific Ocean, I whispered to the wind that I loved him.

I never thought to thank him until now.

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I've shed too many tears over this stupid exercise in ~ R E L E A S E ~ to mention the countless others, so let's wrap this up:

Epilogue

My oathsworn brother – the one who's Instagram message broke the news of Toriyama-san's passing – called me an hour or so later after I told him I was crying. I confided in him my great shame of never sharing with Sensei how grateful I was for his effort in the struggle against human loneliness.

"He knows," I heard through the phone, without hesitation. "He's up on some lotus flower contemplating it all. He knows."

The Dead don't need our thanks: their peace is transcendent. We give our thanks to them for ourselves, to assuage the monotonous pain of knowing that many of us perish without Justice and only some pass Beyond having taken on more than their share of the burden to any lasting effect. The Congo is burning, Gaza is rubble, and I can't stop thinking about what went through Toriyama's mind when he drew Vegeta hugging his son for the first time before the redeemed villain’s predictable disappearance.

Don't just tell your people you love them. Thank them.

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hywin-artz · 2 years ago

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23 Facts About Studio Ghibli That Will Change The Way You Watch The Movies Love and magic; longing and spirits. Anjali Patelby Anjali Patel BuzzFeed Staff Studio Ghibli 1. Isao Takahata (director of The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Grave of the Fireflies, and My Neighbor the Yamadas) and Hayao Miyazaki (director of Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor Totoro) cofounded Studio Ghibli together. Takahata discovered both Miyazaki and Joe Hisaishi, the composer for many Studio Ghibli films. 2. Hisaishi was asked to re-score some of the music for the English release of Castle in the Sky. According to Disney, Ghibli's North American distributor, markets outside of Japan weren't comfortable with large gaps without music. In the original Castle in the Sky, there is only an hour of music in the 124-minute movie. 3. The films that Miyazaki directs are entirely in his vision. He storyboards everything himself and uses those images as a script. Production begins before the boarding finishes, so no one, including Miyazaki, knows how the film will end. Studio Ghibli 4. Though many consider Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind to be the first Studio Ghibli film, its release predates the studio's founding. The first Ghibli film was Castle in the Sky. 5. If you look closely, the same fox squirrels from Nausicaa of the Vally of the Wind reappear in Castle in the Sky. 6. Witnessing the1984 Miners' Strike in Wales impacted Miyazaki, and subsequently influenced Castle in the Sky as it is partially set in a mining town. Studio Ghibli 7. Neil Gaiman adopted the script for the English version of Princess Mononoke. He said that what Miramax (the North American distributor) and Studio Ghibli wanted were so different that he wrote a draft for each, then told them to fight it out amongst themselves Studio Ghibli / Via pinterest.com 8. Ponyo, a movie about a goldfish who wants to become human, is loosely based on The Little Mermaid. 9. Miyazaki drew the waves in Ponyo himself. Studio Ghibli 10. Howl's Moving Castle and Kiki's Delivery Service are based on books of the same name. Tales from Earthsea is based on a series, and Grave of the Fireflies is based on a semi-autobiographical novel. 11. Studio Ghibli does use some CGI, but it never accounts for more than 10% of the finished film. 12 Studio Ghibli's first fully digital feature was My Neighbors the Yamadas directed by Takahata. The first digital feature Miyazaki directed was Spirited Away. Studio Ghibli / Via ffxiv-roleplayers.com 13. To get the scene where Chihiro pushes her hand into Haku's mouth just right, the animators recorded a vet opening a dog's mouth as a reference. 14. The English voice actress for Chihiro in Spirited Away also voiced Lilo from Lilo and Stitch. She also played Samara Morgan, known as "the girl," in The Ring. 15. Spirited Away is the highest grossing film in the history of Japanese cinema. It is also the only non-English film to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. 16. Miyazaki based Chihiro, the main character of Spirited Away, on his observations of the 10-year-old daughter of one of his friends during a retreat to his mountain cabin. Studio Ghibli 177. The main town in Kiki's Delivery Service is modeled after Stockholm, San Francisco, Paris, and places in Ireland and Italy. The setting was created by imagining a 1950s where a war never happened. 18. Porco Rosso was originally supposed to be a 45-minute in-flight film. It grew to be much longer than that, prompting the studio to turn it into a full-length feature for theatrical release. 19. Ghibli is the name of an Italian scouting plane used during World War II. It's also the name for a hot wind in the Sahara. Studio Ghibli 20. The Wind Rises started out as a manga that Miyazaki drew after the release of Ponyo. It was his producer who convinced him to turn it into a full feature movie. 21. While working at Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki sticks to his schedule like clockwork. He arrives at the studio at 11 a.m. sharp and leaves at 9 p.m. He also works six days a week, and on his day off, he often cleans the river down the street from him. 22. You can see original short films in the Ghibli Museum that you can't see anywhere else. They're screened in a theater that looks similar to the baby's room in Spirited Away. 23. There are no set routes to navigate through the museum. Fittingly, the museum's slogan is "Let's Lose Our Way, Together." Unless otherwise noted, all facts are from The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki by Dani Cavallaro.

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bug-thief · 2 years ago

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sometimes you just gotta sit in your room and watch ghibli movies as you feel your heart overflowing with love for the little but overwhelmingly beautiful things this life can give us

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welcometothetripguys · 6 years ago

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i-dream-converse · 7 years ago

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My favourite Ghibli movies:

1. Howl's Moving Castle

2. Tales of the Earthsea

3. Whisper of the Heart

4. Princess Mononoke

5. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (mainly the soundtrack😂)

6. Spirited Away

7. From Up on Poppy Hill

8. Only Yesterday

9. Arietty

10. Kiki's Delivery Service

11. The Cat Returns

For the record, I didn't watch Ponyo yet

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samkuchingdraws · 3 years ago

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‘Through Desolation’ 1920 x 1440 SketchBook

Had quite a tiring day, today. By the final hour of work, my brain had turned to complete mush and I couldn’t do anymore work after that, so I tore away and did this instead, to cool off.

I guess you could say I drew inspiration from several places, the most prominent being DEATH STRANDING (as with most of my art recently). I would like to think that DUNE had a hand in this as well, given the desert setting. That and also Studio Ghibli’s TALES FROM EARTHSEA -- I was mostly listening to the soundtrack when I was painting this. And there was also a bit of Nightwish’s ALL THE WORKS OF NATURE WHICH ADORN THE WORLD (specifically, MOORS & AURORAE).

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the-bjd-community-confess · 3 years ago

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Dear 'Anime Bad' Anon: I Want To Help I pity your situation, so please have a list of weebshit that isn't moeified, or wherein the cutesy art-style serves a greater purpose. (Note: though they won't be soft marshmallow uguuuu, they may still have issues in other ways. Some may have aged badly with regards to how society views or portrays groups or beliefs, some may have upsetting content and dark themes, and some may simply not be to your taste. Note: Anime is a genre, not a monolith, and the disparaging stereotype that it's all cute girls uwuing over their brother s-s-senpai!!! is as much of a disservice as saying all western movies are just vapid cash grab superhero movie sequels with no inegrity or thought put into them. There are indeed a lot of superhero movies, but they're not all identical schlock (megamind vs venom vs kick-ass), but even more than that, there is a wealth of creative endeavor just beyond the veil of Marvel's cape: just as there are plenty of good anime if you dig past the isekai high school harem wish fulfillment genre that no one wants to keep making but people keep making because it prints money to a very small demographic of the animation equivalent of a mobile game whale thereby allowing this frankly quite-small industry to work on engaging and worthwhile series where the budget permits, Regardless,)

Mushi-shi: -Pros: gorgeous animation, tranquil vibes, episodic stories so you can cram in an episode between classes or on your lunch break. highly recommended by the literal-who typing this out. -Cons: some themes or stories may cause emotional distress, learning to tell apart Urushibara Yuki's characters is a learning curve.

Baccano-Pros: meticulously-researched 20s-and-30s-era mafia violence with a hint of the supernatural, as a treat, told anachronistically with flair and jazz music. practically made to be binge-watched. the novels are finally getting translated into english as well. -Cons: lots of characters to keep track of, fair bit of blood and violence, some scenes or themes may be upsetting, lots of jumping around between different time periods. See Also: Durarara, another series by Ryōgo Narita with a ton of characters and a plot with more threads an overpriced sheet.

Cowboy Bebop-Pros: incredibly well-regarded, space bounty hunters are cool, episodic series that slowly takes on a plot towards the end, fantastic animation, scoring, and even dub work. -Cons: some scenes or themes may be uncomfortable, some parts have not aged quite so well, the smart doll version of the main character is ugly, you're gonna carry that weight.

Trigun-Pros: starts lighthearted, develops an increasingly investing plot as the series goes along. fictional westerns are cool. this world is made of love and peace -Cons: some scenes or themes may be upsetting, and probably will be. gun violence is naturally present, but that ain't all of it.

Hellsing (standard or Ultimate. or Abridged)Pros: vampires killing nazis. the original adaptation isn't bad, the second adaptation (ultimate) is generally viewed as an improvement. abridged is a youtube parody version that was so popular the voice actors reference it in convention interviews.Cons: a Lot of violence, even trending to the gorey side of things. Uncomfortable Themes Everywhere, but it's a horror-tinged action series about killing nazis, so that's to be expected.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood-Pros: while the original anime was quite good, the second iteration is a large improvement. does to alchemy what naruto does to ninjas: It's Basically Battle Magic. the plot starts on a strong note and doesn't let up from there. -Cons: there are distressing scenes and themes that may or may not be tolerable to the viewer. there are moments of cheesecake and even an occasional joke or a moeblob here and there, and it's not all doom and all gloom all the time, but this doesn't detract from the abject horror-despair that comes to permeate this series as it progresses. finally understand why people on the internet respond so negatively to the name 'nina'!

[Mod: many more recs/reviews under the break, worth reading for those who like more obscure anime and animation]

Grave of the Fireflies-Pros: you will remember how to cry. it's a good reminder that one country's 'triumphs' often come at the expense of another country's people. -Cons: this movie is incredibly dark, do not watch if you are in a bad headspace. see also: Barefoot Gen, a similar tale but this time from the perspective of an actual survivor from Hiroshima.

Michiko to Hatchin-Pros: an actually diverse cast of characters tangled up in a messy and very humanizing story, interspersed with Shinichiro Watanabe's particular flare for adventure. -Cons: some scenes or themes are very likely to be distressing. can be tricky to find, too.

Mo no no Ke (not the ghibli movie, though it is also quite good.) -Pros: incredibly unique art style and pacing that draws heavily from japanese theatre traditions, every screenshot is wallpaper-worthy. -Cons: may cause motion sickness. it is a psychological horror series, and one that does not need blood, nor gore, to cause visceral emotional response in the viewer. scenes and themes will be distressing- as really, that's the point.

Tokyo Godfathers-Pros: a transwoman, a (self-identified) homeless bum, and a runaway teen girl find a newborn in the baby on christmas. incredibly wholesome, somehow, and grounded in reality, with wonderful animation from the tragically late satoshi kon. -Cons: it is grounded in realism, and sometimes, people are dicks. mild transphobia warning, too, but in-universe- the transwoman herself is portrayed with kindness and allowed to be her own (wonderful!!!) person. still, viewer be mindful.

Kino no Tabi (the first series is my preferred, the second is shinier but lacks emotional impact- in my onion.) -Pros: mostly episodic, very unique series that can be gritty where it counts and kind where it matters. -Cons: some scenes or themes might be disturbing. finding it's not easy, either, and unfortunately, i don't think the novels are being translated right now, either.

Spice and Wolf-Pros: it's mostly about economics. there are shenanigans, a harvest god, and a slowly burgeoning romance, sure, but it's still mostly about economics. -Cons: there are moments of cheesecake and comedy, and moments that may cause distress to the viewer. it may or may not be to your taste.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica-Cons: yeah i know, it's moeblobs. -Pros: you're gonna watch 'em die, though, in case that may interest you. it's quite a good subversion of the magical girl genre overall. somehow volks hasn't made an MDD of anyone from the series and i will never understand how that didn't happen.

Wolf Children: Ame to Yuki-Pros: watch a family grow together as a newly-single mother does her best to raise her twin children after the tragic loss of their father. -Cons: keep tissues handy. certain scenes or themes may be uncomfortable.

Lupin III (Red Jacket, Ghibli, and the new 3D animation are all A+) pros: heist comedy elevated to an art form before half (or more!) of the people reading this were born. the english dubbed series that used to air on adult swim is a treat. cons: this franchise started in THE SIXTIES, so naturally, some shit has not aged well. certain series (fujiko mine) are darker than others in themes and material. the 3d movie that released recently is an excellent starting point.

Samurai Champloo-Pros: breakdancing samurai, a fascinating roster of characters, and a superb soundtrack by the tragically passed Nujabes. -Cons: it was made in the weird era of the transition from analog to digital animation and so the /series master/ was animated at a painfully low resolution, so even if there's a bluray out there (I haven't looked,) it will be an upscale, which doesn't always look the best. as well, there are scenes and themes that may make the viewer uncomfortable here and there.

The Works of Studio Ghibli Oh, I'm sorry, Ponyo too suffused with childhood wonder for you? My Neighbor Totoro not depressing enough? In addition to the infamous Grave of the Fireflies, Studio Ghibli has made a wealth of movies that aren't aimed squarely at the kodomo (children's) sector. -Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: climate change existential dread, the movie -Castle in the Sky: government obsession with obtaining weapons of mass destruction destroys everything beautiful, the movie -Pom Poko: human-caused deforestation and urbanization is destroying the natural world and all that live in it, the movie -Princess Mononoke: industrialization will be the death of everything beautiful in the world, the movie, with a side of sometimes everyone (and no one) is the villain when everyone is simply trying to survive -Howl's Moving Castle: The Physical Manifestation of Depression is a Liquid Ooze, the Movie, also War Is Bad It's not all depressing, but let it never be said that Hayao Miyazaki was subtle. Whisper of the Heart is a good coming-of-age story, Kiki's Delivery Service is a classic, Tales from Earthsea is divisive among fans of Ursula K. Le Guin but I personally liked it. From one studio alone there is a wealth of opportunities.

And that's really the point. These are just some from the top of my head. There are so very many options outside of the cute-girls-doing-cute-things genre that I couldn't list them all if I was here for a week. Or as Madoka Magica so ruthlessly showcases, even series that appear a certain way on the surface might not be what you bargained for once you look into them! These are all (I think) mostly older, mainstream-appeal series that should be easy to track down, too -- there are all kinds of singular animations like The Diary of Tortov Roddle, crowdfunded experiments like KICK-HEART, Masterpiece World Theatre renditions of classic (western) novels that never get talked about, films like A Silent Voice that confront social issues- and of course, series like Rozen Maiden that helped popularize this very hobby!

There is literally an ocean of content to explore from Japanese creators alone, and it opens up even more if you look into works from other parts of Asia- just look at how popular manwha have become, or Chinese animations like Leafie, a Hen Into the Wild! It's a genre unto itself, with all the breadth of content and inter-industry problems that come with it, and without any of the respect that similar art forms have been granted over the years. The way an entire culture's art form is often disparaged, disregarded, and belittled- and by extension, the way most of Asia's animated endeavors are often rolled up into that reductive dismissal along with anime and manga- is honestly Not Great, and there is absolutely a thread of xenophobia that runs through it. The industry has so very many problems (low wages, poor training, overwork of everyone ever, archaic financial modules, the exclusivity and breadth of merchandising necessary to turn a profit and how it leads to consumer burnout and disconnection over time, and yes, the way minors are portrayed not just in anime, but in Japanese media in general- and how much of that is actually bad (some of it is indeed,) and how much if it is cultural difference (I've heard people call the scene where the family in Totoro bathe together problematic because of the nudity, but I've also only heard people say that from the West)

-- none of the actual problems affecting the people who produce this medium are gonna improve when the general response to "animators frequently have to live at home to survive" is "that's what happens when you're a weeb." It's 5am and I'm gonna point out the problems in the narrative around how we discuss this genre of entertainment because it's important, damn you! Regardless, thank you for coming to my unasked for and overlong TED talk about animation on a doll collecting drama blog, feel free to call me a pathetic weeb etcetera on your way out- but while you do so, might I suggest you also go watch a choice animated series! My current go-to is Bofuri, which is a cute-girls-doing-cute-things moefied isekai series that I refuse to apologize for watching. Be free. (The battle scenes are great and it captures the feeling of learning to play a new MMO with your friends better than most video-game-based anime I've seen in a long, long time. does anyone even still remember .hack? how about serial experiments lain...?)

~Anonymous

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non-un-topo · 3 years ago

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yoo siggy give me the director's cut of tangerine and roc, if you would <33

Hi Laurel!!! <33 Tysm!! Abso-fruitly!

I basically started writing it immediately after finishing Lionheart because I was buzzing with mystery ideas and found family feels but my god... the research phase nearly took me OUT (bc alas, I live under a rock and had to learn a lot but it was FUN!!!). I really, really wanted to write something heartfelt and Yusuf-centric, with specific themes that pertained to his character (hence, romance and storytelling/folklore). The Yusuf loving stories thing is more of a headcanon, but it's so close to my heart.

Just like Lionheart, I also really wanted to focus on the entire team's relationships to each other (so not just Y&N's romance being the main plot) but, y'know, it is a love story so their romance had a big part in it. But the metaphors and the symbolism.... I had a little... too much fun with that? (like, the original legend, Nico symbolized as a bird and all that THAT entailed, Andromache's almost matronly relationship to Yusuf, Yusuf’s overwhelming love for the world, the sheer power of love and grief and how they can get twisted...)

I specifically set it in/around Kazakhstan because I wanted to draw a connection between there and Yusuf’s past as a merchant (The Silk Road, the diverse but predominantly Muslim population, Andromache + Yusuf’s relationship, Erasyl the storytelling merchant. There were ""subtle”” similarities btwn Yusuf and Erasyl)

If you’re curious (bc I love knowing these things for some reason), when I was coming up with specific scene ideas + the plot, I listened to a lot of Florence and the Machine and, because I love the mood of it, the Tales from Earthsea soundtrack (+ Princess Mononoke) and especially the Kingdom of Heaven soundtrack, which I almost always listen to when writing these fics. Wrote that whole first Act to the additional tracks (also, “Vide Cor Meum” my fucking beloved. Tender beginning scene of Act 3 was written to that). Specific shoutout to Florence and the Machine’s “Heavy in Your Arms” because... yeah.. the end of Act 2... I am a dramatic bitch. Which is why I loved writing Yusuf’s POV!

Lastly, I really took my time going over the ending and epilogue because I wanted it to be as cathartic and hopeful as possible. We’ve all had an extremely rough year and a half... so, living vicariously through Yusuf’s mind lol, I wanted to hone in on that deep love and curiosity for the world and the future.

Anyway, WOW I've said a lot. Thank you endlessly for indulging me omg... I think it’s one of the fics I’m most proud of and going back to reread some bits and pieces, I definitely want to write more of these years with the immortal wives & husbands.

#tis my niche!!#ty laurel ily <333 #and because i CANNOT shut up but i didn't know where to put it:#yusuf's little handwritten book of his and nico's old travels!!! i have some ideas. might allude to his stories in another fic #and also yusuf's anxiety. that will probably come up again. ofc i had fun exploring that headcanon because i am as well Mentally Ill #and if you remember that like... one line in act 2 where andromache thinks nico is sleepwalking... that will come up in my next fic. tenfold #took me until this new one to realize i've been writing in reverse chronological order and i'm honestly vibing so hard with it rn dfghgfds #MUCH LOVE TO YOU!!!!!! <33 #ask #fic: tangerine and roc #sage writes

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ghibli-collector · 5 years ago

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Anime fans, rejoice! If you’ve watched the iconic classics, My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away as a kid, you will be ecstatic to discover that the soundtracks of these films, along with 36 other original Studio Ghibli albums, will be available on Spotify, Apple Music and Youtube starting 1st March 2020!

Don’t worry hardcore Studio Ghibli fans, it’s not just a handful of famous soundtracks that are going up on these streaming platforms, in fact, Sora News reports that there will be a whopping total of 693 tracks made available starting next month.

While the Japanese animation studio is known for its beautiful visuals and heartwarming scenes, fans find the soundtracks of these films equally as memorable, instantly perking up when they hear the first 5 seconds of their favourite Studio Ghibli theme song.

For those of you who are wondering which movies these prized 38 albums are from, you’ll be glad to know that the first 23 are the soundtracks for every studio Ghibli movie ever made except Grave of the Fireflies and French co-production, The Red Turtle. Among the soundtracks that will be made available are:

● Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Soundtrack-To the Far-off Land

● Castle in the Sky Laputa Soundtrack-Mystery of the Levistone

● My Neighbor Totoro Soundtrack Collection

● Kiki’s Delivery Service Soundtrack Collection

● Only Yesterday Original Soundtrack

● Porco Rosso Soundtrack

● Ocean Waves Soundtrack

● Pom Poko Soundtrack

● Whisper of the Heart Soundtrack

● Princess Mononoke Soundtrack

● My Neighbors the Yamadas Original Full Soundtrack

● Spirited Away Soundtrack

● The Cat Returns Soundtrack

● Ghiblies Episode 2 Soundtrack

● Howl’s Moving Castle Soundtrack

● Tales from Earthsea Soundtrack

● Ponyo Soundtrack

● Arrietty Soundtrack

● From Up on Poppy Hill Soundtrack

● The Wind Rises Soundtrack

● The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Soundtrack

● When Marnie Was There Soundtrack

● The Red Turtle Soundtrack

But that’s not all. 14 image albums that include music from some of Ghibli’s most well known movies and a double-sized collection of vocal songs will also be available:

● Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Soundtrack-Bird People

● Castle in the Sky Laputa-The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

● My Neighbor Totoro Image Song Collection

● Kiki’s Delivery Service Image Album

● Only Yesterday Image Album

● Porco Rosso Image Album

● Pom Poko Image Album

● Whisper of the Heart Image Album

● Princess Mononoke Image Album

● Spirited Away Image Album

● Image Symphonic Suite Howl’s Moving Castle Soundtrack

● Ponyo Image Album

● From Up on Poppy Hill Image Album-Piano Sketch Collection

● The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Soundtrack-Songs for Female Chorus Trio

● Studio Ghibli Songs-Expanded Edition

Time to add these timeless tracks into your playlist! Share this with the biggest Ghibli fan you know.

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twogaysonecup · 4 years ago

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Lime’s Ghibli Review Series: Ocean Waves (1993, Dir. Tomomi Muchizuki)

Now before I watched Tales From Earthsea this was my least favorite Ghibli film, but I want to stress that that’s not because this movie was bad. I actually enjoyed myself more than I was expecting to on this rewatch. The main character is a nice guy, the music is weird but funky, and the animation, while not mind-blowing, was pretty and consistently good.

I think the main issue I have with this movie is that I don’t really have many thoughts about it. It’s kinda boring! The characters aren’t very interesting or likable, and I remember the first time I watched it I kept getting up to get water or pee. Even though it’s a short movie, it feels long, and it also doesn’t really feel like it’s going somewhere. The experience of watching is just kinda.... eh.

Now, after I watched it the first time I watched this video (which I highly recommend, although it does contain spoilers for the entire movie, so be aware of that!) which talks about the gay subtext of the film, and that REALLY informed my rewatch. When I saw it for the first time I was like hm this is kinda gay, and watching it after having seen that video I was like HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY! I think sometimes I can confuse strong friendships with queer subtext (for example: When Marnie Was There seemed very lesbian but if you thought hard enough about it you could rationalize it as a super strong friendship) but in this case it felt like they were consciously attempting to code the main character as gay and having feelings for his friend. THEN they did a full 180 and pretended like all the shit he did for that very friend was for this other girl, who aside from him not seeming romantically interested in, he just flat-out hated as a person. Huh????? I really cannot explain it better than the video, so if you want to know what I’m talking about watch it.

Closing thoughts: I think I would have stronger feelings about them pulling the wool over my gay little eyes if I liked the movie more, but it just wasn’t that interesting. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it. And that’s fine! It was still a million times better than Earthsea.

Gay characters: Taku, obvi, and I was getting a gay vibe from Rikako’s ex-boyfriend as well

Soundtrack: 6/10, it was weird, but funny weird

Times I thought “this is gay”: 10

to be continued xoxo lime

#ghibli #studio ghibli #ocean waves #movie review

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