Posted by Heidi80 on 03.23.2011, 08:09 AM: Describe your first time Ummm.. I mean the first time you saw a Ghibli movie, of course. For me it was the Love and Anarchy film festival here in Helsinki, in the autumn of 2001. I hadn't seen any anime feature films before that, just a few episodes of Pokemon.I had never heard the words studio Ghibli or Hayao Miyazaki before that.It was my third year at university, the year I startedto go to alternative film festivals. I can still remember sitting in the movie theatre, being amazed at what I saw. I have been taken to all kinds of cultural events since I was little and have learned to recognize movies etc with special meaning to me. That autumn evening, without having seen any previous anime, I knew that the movie I was watching, called Princess Mononoke, would have a special meaning to me. Everything in it amazed me; the story, the characters and so on. That evening, I fell in love with a wild forest girl, a love that I still feel, just deeper. Almost ten years on, I've watched practically all of Studio Ghibli's movies, but Mononoke hime is still my favourite, because it was the first I saw. I watch it pretty rarely nowadays, because I need to focus so deep when I watch it and rarely have time, but every time I watch it it's like seeing an old friend. I'm as amazed as when I first saw it and fall in love with the movie again and again. (Gah, I'm almost crying at my computer when I write this) |
Posted by on 03.23.2011, 09:54 AM: I first saw Spirited Away on Cartoon Network years ago, when Toonami had a month dedicated to Miyazaki's films. Actually, I was only able to watch about thirty minutes of Spirited Away. But it didn't really matter. There were WAY too many commercials anyways.
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Posted by Takuto on 03.23.2011, 04:04 PM: I was very young when I saw Whisper of the Heart, and I can't really recall what I thought of it! Dad just knew we were watching a lot of anime around this time (namely Tenchi Muyo, kind of shocking considering our age, Snow Fairy Sugar, and Angelic Layer). Now mind you we are a Christian family and when me and my sis were younger they were VERY protective over what kind of material we watched, so "Kiki's Delivery Service" and even "My Neighbor Totoro" were out of the question (boo!). They've loosened up a whole lot since then though. The real first impact a Ghibli/Miyazaki movie made on me is when I saw Ponyo in theaters with my best friend in the summer of '09. I don't know how my friend got into Ghibli, but I knew she always liked them and was greatly anticipating this one, which made me eager too even if I knew nothing about them/this movie. It was unlike anything I'd ever seen before. A month or two later me and my sister were bribing Dad to rent more for us, the next one being Spirited Away then Kiki's Delivery Service. I really started to fall in love with his filmmaking style, there's something so pure and unique about it. I was reminded of my love for them when another friend brought over Castle in the Sky to watch at a party. That ended up being the first one I bought on DVD. And now, I'm aiming to buy them all!
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Posted by supertrf on 04.03.2011, 02:03 PM: Laputa:castle in the sky That's my first time to watch Mayazaki's movie.
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Posted by Takuto on 04.03.2011, 02:12 PM: That's really cool to hear! The music of Ghibli's movies is usually what I show first to friends to convince them to watch.
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Posted by supertrf on 04.03.2011, 02:23 PM: The music of Miyazaki's works are really fantasy!
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Posted by hopexx5 on 04.03.2011, 03:11 PM: Uhh i must of seen my first when i was around 7 or younger, it was proubly princess mononke or spirited away. |
Posted by husky51 on 04.04.2011, 01:32 AM: My first anime was back around 1960, 'Alakazam the Great', supposedlly taken from a Chinese folk tale (?) about a Monkey King who went on a pilgrimage after abusing his kingly powers.
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Posted by supertrf on 04.04.2011, 02:08 AM:
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Posted by Saddletank on 04.12.2011, 01:52 PM: My first Ghibli was Porco Rosso and I bought it completely at random because I was in a shop looking for Akira and Ghost in the Shell knowing that both had inspired the Wachowski Brothers to create the Matrix - so that dates it pretty much exactly.
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Posted by dballred on 04.14.2011, 01:30 AM:
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Posted by dballred on 04.14.2011, 01:37 AM: My first Ghibli film was Grave of the Fireflies. It was a subtitled VHS rental--but I was unaware it was a Ghibli film. My second was Totoro that I watched on Japanese television without subtitles. Again, I had no idea it was a Ghibli. I nearly changed the channel during the opening credits because my built-in "Barney Alarm" started going off. I'm glad I didn't change the channel. When it all clicked was again on Japanese television in 2001--the NTV promotional heralding the coming opening of Spirited Away. |
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