Studio Ghibli movies

[Die_Hateru]

What's your favorite Studio Ghibli movie?

___________

Mine's gotta be Spirited Away....it's always been, actually.

Howls Moving Castle is next :3
and Hayao Miyazaki has put so much work and effort into his movies, how can you not have a favorite? ;)

[TwilightxLove]

i love Howl's Moving Castle!!!

[Perdition City]

Each of the movies has it's own amazing quality (i've not seen all of them though) but I really enjoyed The Cat Returns, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Grave Of The Fireflies all equally! it's so hard to pick a favorite

[Satsukiyami]

I've only seen Spirited Away and Howl's Moving castle and i loved both of them.

[DeathScytheHC]

Mononoke Hime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just love it.
I'm not an enviromentalist guy, but this movie got me. The message was powerfull enough to touch me.

[Arcademan]

For those who have Cartoon Network, they are showing Spirited Away this Saturday (March 18th) at 7:30 pm EST/PST.

[Rukida]

my neighbor totoro, grave of the fireflies, spirited away... pretty much any and all that 've watched x3.

[Kitsune-chan]

I only haven't seen Porco Roso but it looks good. I really have liked all of his moives though I think my 2 favorites are Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke. I really didn't like Grave of Fireflies. Not that it wasn't good or anything it was wonderful! But.....so sad ;-; lol anyways... I love Studio Ghibli's work *_*

[kazuchiyo]

This is not a popular opinion, but I do love "My Neighbor the Yamadas" best.

[megun]

oooo i cant decide...howls moving castle just came out in theaters where i live(new zealand) and i really liked it.i cried cause it had a happy ending lol! but i really like princess mononoke as well. i didnt like pom poko for sum reason...

[Cachibi]

The Sudio Ghibli Films that I have seen are Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, and My Neighbor Totoro. I like each of them for different reasons, but I would say that I've watched Kiki's Delivery Service the most and I want to see Grave Of The Fireflies.

[Sukeny]

I really liked Spirited Away!

[Manadevil]

Spirited Away.

[Kagura]

Kiki Delivery Service

[sugoidesuyo]

It's a very hard pick, since Ghibli movies often deal with very different subjects for each film. There's very little comparison between Grave of the Fireflies and Spirited Away, but the storytelling and portrayal are both lovely and effective. I really like Howl's Moving Castle. :) Whisper of the Heart (not in USA yet) is also very good too!

[SAKUxDD]

i like howl's moving castle

[Arcademan]

Whisper of the Heart (not in USA yet) is also very good too!

It came out on DVD in the U.S. last week (along with My Neighbor Tortoto) and also aired in January on Turner Classic Movies in both Japanese and English versions ;)

[SAKUxDD]

It came out on DVD in the U.S. last week (along with My Neighbor Tortoto) and also aired in January on Turner Classic Movies in both Japanese and English versions ;)
yeah i saw it at one of the japanese bookstores
is that movie good?

[Arcademan]

I liked it. Some may see it as a bit sappy but I enjoyed it, considering it was the first time I ever saw it.

[AnimeDudde]

I've only seen Spirited Away, and I loved it :P

[SAKUxDD]

I liked it. Some may see it as a bit sappy but I enjoyed it, considering it was the first time I ever saw it.
eh?
what do you mean by sappy (crying a lot...emotional..?)
xP
'cause i might want to buy it

[Arcademan]

eh?
what do you mean by sappy (crying a lot...emotional..?)
xP
'cause i might want to buy it

The words 'chick flick' comes to mind but I still thought the movie was great ;)

[SAKUxDD]

The words 'chick flick' comes to mind but I still thought the movie was great ;)
ohhhh
thanks for the movie review
xP

[Afik]

lol its a good movie, i got it, it is a chick flick in the end but still funny
but mostly I like The Cat Returns, Barons cooler in that movie XD

[baka101]

I like all that I've seen. I saw Porco, Naussicaa, and Howl's before they were released here. I believe that my favourite one would be Castle in the Sky. I've seen it so many times, but iit never gets old.

[Afik]

no fair...I haven't seen Castle in the Sky and I really want to*jealous now*
but I've seen the other's :P I like all of the movies :D

[mei-chan]

my favorite is my neighbour totoro, those creatures are just way too cute
can,t wait till i can get it on dvd

[Zelgadis]

Out of the ones I've seen(Which is quite a few), I personally liked "Whisper of the Heart", "Princess Mononoke", "Porko Rosso" and "Nausicaa". "Kiki's Delivery Service is really good, too, though I haven't watched it in a while... So was "Castle in the Sky"... Even though "Spirited Away" is a popular one, I didn't care for it that much... It wasn't bad though.

I wanna watch "Grave of the Fireflies". Everyone keeps saying it's so sad and that's got me interested. ^^;;

[dreamcatcher]

Spirited away, Princess Mononoke, Pom Poko, Nausicaa, KIKi's, oh jeez all of them!

[Chiaki]

I've just literally finished watchin HMC, its so amazing
I love spirited away (who doesn't) and Princess Monoke
I really want to see my neighbour totoro (looks so cute!)

[everyday_dream]

My Neighbor Totoro will always have a special place in my heart. I have waaaaay too much Totoro merchandise lying around my dorm. ^^;; I really liked Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle, too, but I didn't care much for The Cat Returns. :\

[Menstrual Cramps]

Nausicaa Valley of the Wind
The Cat Returns
Grave of the Fireflies
[Although it's not a complete SG film, I think it was more of a tribute than anything.]

[Fullmetal]

The only ones I've seen are Spirted Away and Howl's Moving Castle and I loved them both. I hope to see them all sometime soon.

[ktv1990]

i've seen a lot of miyazaki's film. I've seen spirited away, howl's movie castle, castle in the sky, princess mononoke, kiki's delivery. I really want to see my neighbor the yamadas and my neighbor totoro. Those i haven't seen yet. But Studio Ghibli has some great anime.

[mei-chan]

there are new trailers on the ghibli website!!!!! http://www.ghibliworld.com/news.html#2804

[Shizu-san]

I love Spirited Away. Haku is a great character.

As for Howl's Moving Castle... I enjoyed it, but since I read the book first and then watched the movie, it probably ruined the experience a little bit for me.

[queshaw]

To make sure every film is somebody's favorite, I liked pom poko a lot, about racoons trying to trick developers into leaving their land alone. One particularly fascinating part for me is a ceremony where they play this music that I think might be Ondo music? I like Shoukichi Kina and Champloose, who played kind of rock ondo music, and I've been trying to find out what that is. I'm gathering now that it's for sort of a day of the dead like ceremony related music, in Japan (after remembering to look on wikipedia). I like the music anyway.

Also, Miyazaki related (but not entirely Miyazaki san) that I liked was Panda! Go Panda!. The first episode on the DVD I got from netflix is reallly funny and the Panda character seems like it might have been an early inspiration for Totoro.

I also tried to watch an even less Miyazaki related anime called Sherlock Hound, but I couldn't stand watching it after about 5 minutes.

My Neighbor Totoro has a special place in my heart. My favorite of his stories is Naausica, but the Anime is only about 1/8th of the manga story. I wish they would do the rest of it (I'm told the manga came after so, I guess I understand).

By the way, do you know if any of the Miyazaki anime have manga other than Nausicaa that have an expanded story, or are otherwise significantly different?

Oh.. well I should have seen this:

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/

So, there's manga of his to be read that isn't in anime. But it doesn't say if the manga for say porco rosso is different than the anime.

[tomselleck69]

seen all of the big ones, with the notable exception of cat returns, and a few of the non-miyazaki ones.

have to say that porco rosso is my favorite, followed by princess mononoke.

[Micheliu]

Kiki´s Delivery Service. Not only my favorite Ghibli movie, but my ALL TIME favorite movie EVER (after I first watched it in the early nineties, I remember rewinding the videocassette again and again and again... I must have seen it almost TWENTY times in one week).

What do you think of the upcoming Gedo Senki? Have you read the Earthsea books it is based on?

[Arcademan]

This past weekend I finally bought and watched Kiki's Delivery Service. What can I say...FANTASTIC MOVIE!!! Watched it three times and still enjoyed it. Downside was the dubbed voices they used but then again, I watched it with the original Japanese voices (English sub-titles). Using the closed-captioning option, the English dub changed quite a bit from the original text.

Still an excellent movie. I'd recommend it :)

[elisegrey]

If I'd read this little more than a month ago, I would definitely have said Spirited Away, without a doubt, but...

I finally sat down and watched Whisper of the Heart last week, and it's just so- so lovely. Especially the scene in which they all spontaneously burst into music and singing - oh! And if you liked The Cat Returns, you get to see the original versions of the Baron and Muta, which I was not expecting at all.

In its bare essentials, a girl goes into crisis-mode over what she's going to do in her life. And then she takes the bravest way possible to sort it out. And it's fantastic. :D

[valentine]

spirited away and princess mononoke are ma faves.pom poko is realy strange ,the cat returns is funny it's sooo hard to pick lol.

[vampireritsuka]

i love Howl's Moving castle. Now that i think of it i love all the films i had seen by Hayao Miyazaki.
-whisper of the heart
-spirited away
-my neighbor totoro
-porco rosso
-princess mononoke
-nausicaa of the valley of the wind
I even wrote my junior essay in high school about Hayao Miyazaki.

[Fullmetal]

I pretty much liked everyone I've seen but I really liked Castle in the Sky for some reason. I think it was the ending though. =)
Here's All the Studio Ghibli movies I've seen::
-Naussicaa
-Spirted Away
-My Nieghbor Totoro
-Howl's Moving Castle
-Kiki's Delivery Service
-Princess Mononoke

[ArGus]

Ghibli movies are very well done. Most Ghibli movies I've seen are Miyazaki movies.
-Spirited Away
-Castle in the Sky
-Whisper of the Heart
-Nausicaa
-Kiki's Delivery Service
-Porco Rosso
-My Neighbor Totoro
-Princess Mononoke
One great non-Miyazaki Ghibli film is Grave of the Firelies. It's a very sad movie.
I really can't decide. I think it's a tie between Spirited Away/Princess Mononoke. Whisper of the Heart is also very close too.

[Rednal]

XP Studio Ghibli does very high quality work. I got a set of 4 DVD's called 'The Archives of Studio Ghibli' recently, so I got to see a lot more of their work.

'On Your Mark (Chage & Aska)' was excellent. My only regret is that it was so short.

My favorite of their works, though, is definitely Princess Mononoke. It's just a great movie. XD (San is also very funny... Which is why it won). I liked the original language version better, though... Despite the great English way it was noted that San would make a lovely wife. (She would, too...) Shame that the movie ended the way it did, without much romance, but Stuido Ghibli DOES have a habit of making movies with slightly different endings then what you'd expect. It's part of their greatness. I've also seen, let's see...

Porcoros (Porco Rosso) (In Japanese!)
Nausicaa (In Japanese!)
Kiki's Delivery Service (In Japanese!)
Castle in the Sky

And a few others I don't know the names of. XD I saw one I THINK might have been called '2' last night (I doubt it was) featuring a lyric/story-writing girl and a violin-making boy... Meh. I'm describing this HORRIBLY, aren't I?


Oh, well. Ghibli has my vote for 'Best Anime Studio' any day because their works are consistently top-level. I have yet to see a bad film by them.:D

[elisegrey]

XP Studio Ghibli does very high quality work. I got a set of 4 DVD's called 'The Archives of Studio Ghibli' recently, so I got to see a lot more of their work.

...

And a few others I don't know the names of. XD I saw one I THINK might have been called '2' last night (I doubt it was) featuring a lyric/story-writing girl and a violin-making boy... Meh. I'm describing this HORRIBLY, aren't I?
Ah - I have that! I got it for Christmas. Fantastic, isn't it? Even if the subs are... shoddy at best. :D

And I think the one you're talking about is Mimi wo Sumaseba (aka 'Whisper of the Heart') - I surprised myself with how much I loved that one - possibly even more than Spirited Away. >_>

[Kenji08]

My favorite would be Nausica of the valley of the wind that one is awsome.

[alucard666]

i have seen and like all of them but porco rosso was my favorite.

[Windseeker]

I'd say the best movies ive seen of Studio Ghibli are Princess Mononoke,and Spirited Away.

[philnicau]

Seen
My Neighbour Totoro
Nausicaa
Kiki's Delivery Service
Whispers of the Heart
Spirited Away
Pon Poco
Porco Rosso
Laputa
The Cat Returns
Only Yesterday
The Ocean Waves
Princess Mononoke

and my favourite is
Whispers of the Heart

[GabbieG]

i'v seen Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Kiki's Delivery Service
and i dont have a fav never will i love them all they are all like my fave movies:D

[Fujiwara]

I've seen every single one, my list:

Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Porco Rosso
Kiki's Delivery Service
Castle In The Sky
My Neighbour Totoro
Naussicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Grave of the Fireflies
Pom Poko
On Your Mark
Whisper of the Heart
The Cat Returns

My fave is My Neighbour Totoro.

[Nekochii]

Studio Ghibli films I've seen:

My Neighbour Totoro
Princess Mononoke
Castle in the Sky
Grave of the Fireflies
Only Yesterday
Kiki's Delivery Service
Spirited Away.

[unit898]

I love Hayao Miyazaki's movies. i have Totoro, which is my favorite, Spirited
Away, Kiki's Delivery service, and Castle in the sky

[unit898]

I also have Nasicaa of the Valley of Wind and Grave of the Fireflies in japanese.

[MephistoWaltz]

I love his films, like Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away. I'm looking forward to Gedo Senki - Tales from Earthsea.

[Owl*Light]

spirited away and princess mononoke, is Kiki's delivery service a ghibli film?

[Shinsou Wotan]

Much to my surprise, my all-time favorite Ghibli movie is Mimi wo Sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart - how'd the translation turn out? I'd be particularly interested to hear from someone who's also seen the original. It seems to me that there would be a few points that would be nearly impossible to render well into English). If it hadn't been by Ghibli, I probably never would have given it even a second glance, especially if I'd seen a basic plot summary. Yet somehow, despite the fact that it's the dead opposite of what I usually enjoy, it's also the one I find myself rewatching most often. The manga, which I just read a few days ago, was excellent, and in many ways the better story, but I get the feeling that if I'd read it first, I wouldn't have been drawn to it the same way I was to the movie.

Second place goes to Spirited Away. It's a fun story, and (as a would-be translator) I was impressed by how well the dub was done.

And, for the film I'm glad I saw, but which I never intend to watch again, the prize goes to Grave of the Fireflies.

[DoNgDoNg]

Ive seen spirited away, princess mononoke, nuaasica (??) and only yesterday im still trying 2 get a hold of my neighbour totoro and howls moving castle but at the moment id havta say that spirited away holds its own ^.^ def. my fave

[kinonotabi]

Either Spirited Away or Grave of the Fireflies.

[vonniechan]

my neighbor totoro
the cat returns
princess mononoke
and my favorite howls moving castle

[Andre]

I love Castle in the Sky, and Nausicaa.
But Castle of Cogliostro and the Sherlock Hound TV series hold a special place in my heart :)

I want someone to import Takahata's Anne of Green Gables anime though..... Miyazaki's illustrations are so beautiful.

[pancakes621]

I've seen and got Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and The Cat Returns

I love all of them and am trying to get new ones, my friend has more than me but I'm hoping that she'll let me borrow some off her ^_^

[iirnii]

Much to my surprise, my all-time favorite Ghibli movie is Mimi wo Sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart - how'd the translation turn out? I'd be particularly interested to hear from someone who's also seen the original. It seems to me that there would be a few points that would be nearly impossible to render well into English). If it hadn't been by Ghibli, I probably never would have given it even a second glance, especially if I'd seen a basic plot summary. Yet somehow, despite the fact that it's the dead opposite of what I usually enjoy, it's also the one I find myself rewatching most often. The manga, which I just read a few days ago, was excellent, and in many ways the better story, but I get the feeling that if I'd read it first, I wouldn't have been drawn to it the same way I was to the movie.

There is a manga on Whisper of the Heart??? :eek: WHERE?!!

Anyway, here are the lists of Studio Ghibli's movies which I've watched:


Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Whisper of the Heart


I really like them all. Spirited Away re-introduced me back to my love for anime-movies, Princess Mononoke was captivating and amazingly endearing, Howl's Moving Castle was dazzling, and Whisper of the Heart was really pulling and wonderfully fresh adorable.

A few days ago I just got myself a DVD collection of Studio Ghibli's works, and am going to watch these soon:


Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Only Yesterday
My Neighbor Totoro
Pom Poko
Porco Rosso
Laputa: Castle In The Sky
Tombstone of Fireflies
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Cat Returns
Sound of the Ocean


I'm glad reading thru the posts in this thread showed me that various people like various Studio Ghibli movies, and not specific only towards a certain one or two, and the reviews made me even more eager to watch them all! Cheers!

[RKambereyes]

I've got plenty of fav movies from Studio Ghibli! Not in any particular order

~Spirited away
~Kiki's Delivery Service
~Castle In The Sky
~Totoro!!
~Princess Mononoke (this scared me when I was small. I don't know why, I think it was the oversized wolves.)
~The cat returns

[TheThudElh]

Are they ever going to release all of the studio ghibli films in a box set? I love all of then esp. Spirited Away, Totoro, and Kiki's Delivery Service.

[animequeen20012003]

I love Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbour Totoro.

[alucard666]

Are they ever going to release all of the studio ghibli films in a box set?

i don't know if there will ever be a box with all of them, but amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Miyazaki-Delivery-Nausicaa-Princess-Mononoke/dp/B0009SW83K/sr=1-2/qid=1172767815/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/105-3743517-4010019?ie=UTF8&s=dvd) has a set with 6 of them. it's probably cheaper to buy them all separately though.

[happy_sakura]

Spirited Away
The Cat Returns
Pom Poko
Kiki's Delivery Service
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
My Neighbour Totoro

My favourites are Kiki's delivery service, Laputa, Pom Poko and Totoro.

[justsolovely]

you have to see whisper of the heart
by far one of the best ones
my neighbor totoro was good
so was kiki, the cat returns and spirited away
grave yard of fireflies was made by studio ghibli too right?
saddest movie i've ever seen
they're coming out with a new movie too
tales of something....

[alucard666]

tales of earthsea. unfortunately it will be a while until it comes to the US due to rights of the name, 2009 i think.

[UzumakiNaruto92]

:) 1.Spirted Away
2.Princess Mononoke
The only two I've seen

[TheThudElh]

i don't know if there will ever be a box with all of them, but amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Miyazaki-Delivery-Nausicaa-Princess-Mononoke/dp/B0009SW83K/sr=1-2/qid=1172767815/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/105-3743517-4010019?ie=UTF8&s=dvd) has a set with 6 of them. it's probably cheaper to buy them all separately though.


Thank you for that tip good to know

[princessHana]

I've only seen Spirited Away. :o
It was cool. :)

[Kiyomidesu]

Howls moving castle!!!!!! I like watching it in japanese rather than in english!!

[alucard666]

Looks like Miyazaki has a new movie coming out next year. Here's a link (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19441)

[JoelleTravianaOx]

Gah, I could never choose. I think it may be The Cat Returns or Princess Mononoke or maybe Spirited Away or Howl's Moving Castle <3

[calamari]

My favorite is either Howl's Moving Castle, or Spirited Away. I've seen all of the Studio Ghibli movies that have been released on DVD EXCEPT Grave of the Fireflies. But I have seen Only Yesterday (although I didn't get to see the ending because of taping difficulties).

[onlygeekchic]

Mines still Howl's Moving Castle, although i have yet to see Tales from EarthSea but i doubt my favourite will change. I have a top ten favourite Ghibli films thing in my top ten not that anyone is actually interested lol

[Andre]

tales of earthsea. unfortunately it will be a while until it comes to the US due to rights of the name, 2009 i think.

Not the name, but rather the rights to the book series by Ursula K. LeGuin it's based on..... the series was made into a TV miniseries by SciFi Network a few years ago, and their license is until 2009. LeGuin herself rather dislike the movie, which made many of the black/coloured characters into caucasian ones, kind of defeating some of the themes/world building of the work.

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/UKL_info.html She talks about this on her website. She did like some aspects of the Ghibli version, though was lead to beleive Hayao would direct [she was a fan of Totoro], and was dissappointed by some of Goro's choices. She seemed to have liked it better that SciFi's, though it's not quite the Earthsea of the books....

Ghibli's adaption is primarily based on The Farthest Shore, the 3rd book, though it mixes in elements of the 4th+5th books [which weren't featured in SciFi's version].

PS- The Earthsea books kick total ass, and you should read em before you see the anime. They're fairly common, with a new one every decade or so, and I'd also recommend checking out Le Guin's other books as well/


PPS-- Also, while it's not available in the US quite yet, Ghibli/BuenaVista [aka Disney] have authorized a release in the UK and other European countries, as the rights issues don't apply there. Though that's a PAL format release, so it might not be a good import option. BUT.....

The Japanese R2 DVD will include subtitles [and be NTSC, which means it'll play on North Ameircan TV's if you have a regionless dvd player], and apparently a dub version as well, depending on which version of the DVD you buy.

Though Disney is very likely to release it on DVD in 2009, which'll be around the time Hayao Miyazaki's next film will be completed [and likely distributed in American theatres]

[Nakase]

My favorites have to be Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. I liked all the ones which came to DVD, but these two are definitely the best.

[Xieda]

My favorites are Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, and Nausicaa.

[untouchable]

I love studio gibli

[mycookies]

I love Studio Ghibli and have all the films on DVD <3 But my favourite without a doubt is My Neighbour Totoro (I am watching it right now : D ) I am obbessed with it lol, any time I got to a convention I just buy tons of Totoro merchandise, I think at one of the London Expos they had a HUGE Totoro plushie and I wanted it so badly... even though it wouldn't fit anywhere in my house ^ _ ^;

I really love the music in the film as well and I want to get the soundtrack but I've never been able to find it anywhere u_u

[F3uerFrei]

I've seen nearly all of Studio Ghiblis films (thanks to film 4 in the UK :cool: ) but i remeber like in 1 o'clock in the morning when i saw Grave of the Fireflies - :( ,that is my fav movie from Studio Ghibli.

[marukufusen]

I love Studio Ghibli movies there are really creative. my favorites are Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies (I cried:( in this one)and Howl's Moving Castle.