✩̣̣̣̣̣ͯ┄•͙{Closed}Discussion post for SGA Newsletter •┄✩̣̣̣̣̣ͯ

This one is probably going to be somewhat controversial but Spirited Away or Ocean Waves would be my least favorite. With Spirited Away, I just feel like I was introduced to it at an age where I couldn't appreciate it. It downright terrified me as a child. :joy: And even though I'm old enough to truly appreciate it now, it still leaves that feeling of general unpleasantness when I watch.

As for Ocean Waves, it's just not great. Boring, unlikeable characters, no memorable music, the list goes on.

My neighbours the Yamadas. I fell to sleep watching this. Second to this , Grave of the fireflies a little brutal for me

I still haven’t watched every single Ghibli movie yet (I only recently got back into them though always loved them) but out of the many I have seen, I don’t caring for Pom Poko too much. I can’t even necessarily say why, either, but I think a part of it may be that I just happen to personally prefer ones with humans in it as I can relate more efficiently to the characters and storyline. It’s not actually a bad movie of course, it’s just more of a personal preference kind of thing, I think.

I don’t know, perhaps I’ll just have to watch it again sometime. :blush:

I'll ignore Earwig and the Yamadas, because those answers would be too simple. Only Yesterday is probably my least favorite, but by no means do I dislike it, it just happens to lack the magic that subtly invades even the "normal" Ghibli films. I would categorize it as "josei" so themed for young adult women. It's about a woman, Taeko, travelling to her family farm to work for the summer. The nostalgia of childhood and forgotten feelings will eventually force Taeko to choose between city and country life. It is good, but it's long and quite slow.

My least favorite would be Earwig and the Witch. Though it has a beautiful story it just doesn't have the Ghibli feeling and I don't necessarily mean the graphics or use of 3D characters. The story never felt complete and had loose endings such as why Earwig's mother left her and it never answered the question as to who the witches were that chased her or why. Earwig's personality was also hard to get used to and it was never revealed if she really cared about the people around her or if she was only using them for her own gain and nothing more. It's still an okay movie though.