#top three are nausicaa mononoke and castle in the sky easy

[rowanthefierce]

watched Porco Rosso tonight. one of my favs. absolutely love how 95% of it is a fun, action-packed homage to classic airplanes, dogfights, flight and freedom, silly little pirates, all that good stuff, and then that one scene where Porco watches his friends and enemies fly up to join the 'contrail' in the sky of dead WWI pilots lays me tf out. something about the animation + Hisaishi's score just wallops me. I cried and then minutes later was laughing about Porco slugging it out with 'that Yank.' gotta hand it to Studio Ghibli for giving you the full range of human emotion