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chapo.chat has fallen. I repeat, chapo.chat has fallen. It's too late to salvage it. Authorize the strike.
Striking against anime would upset reactionaries more than the current protests.
Visualize a world where you can get anime recommendations that aren't based on fascism and waifus. That world is here.
I loved princess Mononoke, maybe I should learn more about these Pikachus and Digimons kids seem to find so cute...
Have you ever dug into Miyazaki's other works? Nausicaa has similar eco themes and is beautiful.
Yeah Nausicaa is probably the one I enjoyed the most in fact. I've never seen the "sympathetic monsters" cliché executed as well as in Nausicaa, you can completely empathize with the bugs and feel their sentience and worth, despite how alien and repulsive they look. I've seen Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, the Laputa one, Porco Rosso and Arrietty. Other than that, the only anime I've ever seen are Paprika (loved it) and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (not super memorable but I recall enjoying it at the time). Not sure if "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" counts as anime because it's half-French, but I was OBSESSED with it as a kid. So yeah I've never dug far at all, I still have troves of super popular universally acclaimed stuff to discover. I'll watch cowboy bebop soon.
So, you've not seen Grave of the Fireflies?
That one is special. Everyone should watch it once and then NEVER AGAIN.
Not yet! I'm a little bummed out that I'll go into it with massive expectations, and I'll probably constantly think "oooh so THAT's what makes it so uniquely depressing", like I'll be judging its performance in the great Sadness Contest everyone has decided it won, instead of fully experiencing it. I hope I'll just get immersed enough early on to forget about that.
I wouldn't call it a sadness contest. More of a traumatic experience.
Count yourself lucky that you're going into it knowing it's not a normal Ghibli. I went into it expecting a Ghibli movie and what I got was.... Traumatic.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that apostrophe use? It's an apostrophe for possession, they are his works.
