Personal favorite: The Place Promised in Our Early Days. Personal favorite: Tokyo Godfathers (probably also Paprika, actually, but I felt like Tokyo Godfathers deserved to be called out as it's exemplary)Įverything Makoto Shinkai, top popular opinion: 5cm Per Second. Personal favorite: Porco RossoĮverything Satoshi Kon, top popular opinion: Paprika. Just looking over my watched list, with some generalizations thrown in (I have not necessarily watched all of the films I throw an 'everything by' around):Įverything Studio Ghibli, top popular opinion: Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away. If you watch all of these and still want more Miyazaki before branching out to other studios and/or directors, try Porco Rosso or Whisper of the Heart. I know a lot of people also like Nausicäa, Spirited Away, and Totoro, but personally I feel like the other three I mentioned are a bit more accessible to start with. I especially suggest starting with either Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, or Howl's Moving Castle. Or try watching in Japanese, but always have the option of switching to English if it's hard to keep up. You could watch once in English, then re-watch in Japanese. If you're hesitent about jumping in with subtitles, most Ghibli films have good English dubs. Also Five Centimeters per Second for the visuals alone, though the screenplay is mediocre.Īlso, OP, Miyaziki is definitely good. A few more I'd add: Millennium Actress, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Grave of the Fireflies, and Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0. But you put Perfect Blue in both paragraphs FYI.

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