Studio Ghibli is fantastic.
Shitty imitations of Ghibli by crap-ass AI junk barfers suck festering goat anus.
I remember reading, some time back, that Totoro (from the Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro) was as iconic in Japan as Mickey Mouse is in America. I don’t know how true that is, but I think it talks to different cultural perspectives.
In any case, there’s very little anime that I enjoy, and almost all of it is Studio Ghibli. Setting aside hipster superciliousness, if you don’t like anime but you have any appreciation for fantasy movies, I encourage folks to check out Princess Mononoke, which is IMO one of the best three or four fantasy movies ever made. Warning: not for the younguns.
That, too. I wouldn’t have seen those posts at all, because I avoid shitty AI threads.
Wait, you’ve never heard of Studio Ghibli? Do you live under a rock?
Not by name, no. I have seen some of their stuff in memes and such, and have heard some of the movie titles that have been tossed around, but until that thread the name meant nothing to me, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you it’s an anime studio.
I don’t think I’ve seen any of their stuff. But like I said, I haven’t watched Anime since there were 151 Pokemon.
No?
I’m not even an anime fan. My mostly normie sister introduced me to it. Definitely worth watching.
I’m really curious if you were making the Pokemon reference here (and in the other thread) intentionally or accidentally.
No, what is XKCD?
Just kidding, I know XKCD. And I wasn’t making a reference, I was being literal. The first anime I watched was Digimon, and then I decided Pokemon was cooler, and then Pokemon jumped the shark by adding a bazillion new ones including a lame blue blob that joined the evil team, so I was over it.
This would all have been when I was 7 or 8 or something?
Did you play Pokémon Go when it was released? My husband just got back into it thanks to two coworkers; I’m resisting this time because I like having a working battery in my phone.
I don’t even remember which anime series out of Battle of the Planets, Tranzor Z, or Starblazers I watched first as a kid, but whichever it was it would have been in the early 1980s.
(I was too late for Speed Racer, too early for Pokemon.)
This sort of thing is becoming more and more a problem as I decay away into old age. Everything eventually becomes updated, expanded, rebooted, redone in new version with a new take, etc. To the point where there seems to be no way to stay invested in anything because there are no boundaries to a franchise anymore. I gave up on DC Comics somewhere back around Zero Hour for example.
A tiny bit because of some coworkers. But it was too annoying to play for long.
However I did play a bunch of Pokemon Let’s Go on the switch with my wife; she’s a teacher, and we spent one summer break (before we had kids) playing through that and Super Mario Odyssey. We ended up getting all 151 Pokemon including a shiny Ponyta, which was badass.
We got one of the mainline Pokemon games that came out after Let’s Go but we couldn’t get into it. What made Let’s Go work was the nostalgia factor, without that we just weren’t as into it.
Also, funny story… One of the Dark type moves in that game, that was devastating with our Gengar, is Shadow Ball. That summer, we adopted a stray dog named Shadow, and got him fixed. Which led to the joke…
SHADOW forgot SHADOW BALL. And… SHADOW learned CALM!
Well, I had this problem when I was like 8, they added 100 Pokemon almost right away.
Today, there are over a thousand.
I believe Battle Of The Planets was the first anime series I watched. This was in the late 70’s early 80’s. Voltron (IIRC originally Hiyakujo Go Lion), vehicle Voltron (I forget the original Japanses name) and a few others had the same characters-
Brooding handsome lead man
Pretty princess in pink
Slightly overweight jock
Short thin nerdy guy with glasses
The orignail Japanese Lion robot show and the Vehicle robot show were unrelated. When combined into Voltron for America, the writers made the nearly identical short, thin, nerdy guys with glasses on the two shows cousins.
I’d wondered at the time why there were two different Voltrons but chalked it up to rebooting. Mystery solved.
I would have sworn that the three robot Voltron used to be in the episode rotation, too, but apparently I just remember it from the toys.
(I never had those toys, but did and still do have the five lion and fifteen vehicle ones.)
I started out with anime with Mazinger Z. In 1972. In Japan.
I love Studio Ghibli with almost no reservations. My one reservation is Howl’s Moving Castle. It’s mostly an excellent film, but I really disliked how they changed the purpose of the black spot on the dial. In the movie, I thought it was fairly lame. Maybe because it was one of my favorite aspects of the book? In the book, when I found out what the black spot meant, I loved it. Changing that changed the entire meaning of the story for me.
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