- Studio Ghibli classics such as Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke.
- the Secret World of Ariety for the aesthetic.
- Millennium Actress. A heart wrenching, mysterious, and conflicting story. I wanted to tell off the main character so bad. He would have loved her despite what she looked like!!!
- In This Corner of the World. Kind of similar to the Grave of the Fireflies but not really. It involves WWII in Japan but it's more subtle than that... In fact, it took me a minute to get into but once the expectations of "anime" dissolved that subtleness gave way to a truly heart touching following of a possible*:
girl's life at that time.
The movie doesn't give everything away and offers very psychologically interesting occurrences that the viewer has the right to interpret in a number of ways, but I still get a kind of breathtaking feel from thinking about the movie. It wasn't what I expected but it turned out being so much better. There's a realness to the character's experiences; it's an anime that isn't stuck in the anime-verse. The drawing style is also unqiue. It's probably still on Netflix.
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We are not trying to keep the legacy—we are trying to move forward, so our sound is going to change. I’m ready to be criticized, for example by fans saying "you should rather be this style." I’m ready for it, I’m okay with any concept of criticism-Yoshiki
