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1 Year of Service
PTSD from Grave of the Fireflies!! My Aunt bought it for me as a kid because I was an anime fan. No one in the household was prepared for what we saw!!I'm still traumatize by Grave of the Fireflies (but it's a Takahata film, not a Miyazaki one, even if they are both Ghibli directors). Miyazaki is really pacifist, ecologist and feminist too. At the same time, he feels bad because he love aircraft (who are often machine of war and also pollute a lot) and also his family formerly owned a aircraft piece factory which participate in arming Japan in second world war.
Princess Mononoke was so good!! I feel like we have lost touch with how we do messaging, metaphors and allegories in films and animations these days. This is definitely one of history's greatest!Princess Mononoke was great, starting right from the beginning. I really wish there were more with higher levels of violence. Though, I do prefer his allegories for War. Imagine loving planes and technology and the ability to fly, but Grave of the Fireflies being pretty much based on your life. So, you combine the childlike sense of wonder with death and violence, when it comes to tech. Grave of the Fireflies is pretty f'n sad, and then you see those hidden messages as an adult you didn't see as kid. It makes you view Ghibli way differently, both good and bad.