Man I hate annie-may. What's up with the water pills and squares on their heads? Why are their mouths normal and then go huge? How can people watch this crap, srsly? And what's up with the gay hair? Okay, I actually liked Mononoke and Spirited Away, because they were well drawn, but this regular anime is shit.

PS
Popeye is cool.

Yeah, Spirited Away is a great animated movie, but can be a little owerpowering, if you haven't seen animes before.

Spirited Away is also a great animated movie.

I am not a fan of

a) your face
b) you two cock fags.
go look on you tube for the soot-imp scene from spirited away, studio ghibli doesn't exactly like to have their vids out and about.

totally awesome

I'd seen video of this before. This time it reminded me of Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' film, where the train tracks are sometimes submerged under water.

The thing is: I like the music, very much. I don't know what it is but i have the feeling i have heard it before. And since Crazy-drummer suggests it's from spirited away and i have seen that movie... Well i'll have to go and watch that movie again right now ;-)

correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the music is from Hayao Miyasaki's "Spirited Away" and would deserve a * music tag ( but I can't do that )

Looks cool. Has kind of a "Spirited Away" look and feel to it.

I haven't seen the other movies mentioned, but Spirited Away is one of my favorites.

i loved how well they made the dragon whip around to fly in spirited away.

not one scene that i would have predicted to be in here was in here, except the cat bus running.

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Right you are Farhad. Great movie - I love how Miyazaki has always had a thread of green preservation in his flicks. This is, I think, his best movie, even though it came out way back in '87. It's also my kids' favorite. (Spirited Away is a bit too freaky for them).

They like to watch the DVD in the original Japanese, even though they don't understand much - because the voice actors are so much better, and the words are cool sounding.

kuro-kuro kurosuke, donguri etc.

I'm suprised it didn't mention Spirited Away winning an Oscar in 2001

Actually Daphne you are mistaken, the background of Grave of the Fireflies is more tragic in reality, the anime is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister. And was written and directed by Isao Takahata for Studio Ghilbi. Hayao Miyazaki wasn't directly involved in this, something I could clearly make out as he would never make a story that's this tragic.

Hayao Miyazaki is the Hans Christian Anderson of the animated medium. When I first discovered his films, not only was I blown away by their plot lines and quality but the sheer number of them... Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle...

If you liked Grave of the Fireflies I would highly reccomend, Pom Poko by Isao Takahata.

By the way I watched Grave of the Fireflies only once in my life. But it's effect was so deep that I cannot bear to watch it again anytime soon.