the only worthwhile animes are the hyperviolent/sexual/cyberpunk stuff from the mid 80s-mid 90s. everything else is gay. ghibli has decent animation but still gay in the same way old disney cartoons have good animation but are gay.
>>213015334 uh yes anon. you are too much of a badass edgelord with your use of the word "gay", please leave before you cause us an attack of the vapours.
>>213015283 yeah this. when i have kids ghibli movies are like prime incredible stories for them, I had Totoro on VHS and it was super formative. they're pure, joyful movies and if you think it's "gay" to like them you have a rotten heart
>>213016994 >>213018200 Kiki's delivery service came out almost a decade before the first potter book was even written, you zoomer retards.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:48:46 PM No.213018264
I finally re-watched ponyo and realized I was too hard on it I also rewatched Totoro and realized what complete slop it is, this shit doesn't even have a plot Howl's is still the best
>>213022296 Ghibli depicts European style cities very well
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 9:43:15 PM No.213022368
>>213012653 (OP) >>213012750 >wholesome, low stakes coming of age story Can anyone rec me similar films/TV with similar summery vibes? They don't necessarily have to be animated but animation is also welcome.
>Euro hours >Civil discussion about nostalgic ghibli movies. >Amerimutts wake up >wannabe jannies start trying to police the board by spamming their buzzwords.
>>213022368 I can recommend Hakumei and Mikochi. Not really a coming of age story, more of a slice of life and comfy & little to no stakes adventure stuff, but it has strong summer vibes featuring two little gnome girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8TgBemjJcU
>>213020712 Yeah you will. I mean the inner city section has a lot of immigrants but overall the vibe is that you need to venture out to find truly immigrant infested areas.
Wealthy areas are 90% white. Visby is even better.
anime "stops and starts" in a way Western animation doesn't. it's like you're watching a slideshow. Western animation fills in those gaps in creative ways, squash-and-stretch, all that good stuff. yeah it's for goods but it MOVES a lot smoother.
dunno, just very stuttery, as though there's something actually wrong with the film. makes it hard to watch.
>>213022781 Ghibli stuff is superior when watching dynamic stuff like teenagers accelerating into a full run. Lovingly animated weight and lightness
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:15:15 PM No.213023056
>>213022577 It is extremely comfy, and has a similar "nothing really bad happens" type of vibe as Kiki's delivery service has. There are no villains or stuff like that, just little people living their little lives
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:24:45 PM No.213023246
>>213022728 You can find similar looking cities in coastal Finland as well
>>213021021 No it isn't, Stockholm is segregated as shit. All immigrants are in commie blocks suburbs far outside the city. The city itself is basically just Swedes (and tourists)
>>213016541 They played both fields as they sure liked showing off Tombo's butt from him sticking it out when he's riding his bike often, this shot especially.
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 12:00:41 AM No.213025330
>>213024858 Don't you have a bull to prep or something, swen?
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 12:14:16 AM No.213025594
>>213023726 Western animation just has awful direction and storyboarding. As cheap as it can be sometimes, at least in the anime industry they know to mix up camera angles and shot compositions to make scenes more visually interesting and dynamic. Most western animated shows just spam these really bland, flat medium shots endlessly.
>>213016541 Yeah it's a rather annoying bit of the film. Japs gonna Jap I suppose.
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 1:04:57 AM No.213026793
I always liked this movie but now that I have a young daughter who loves watching it, I appreciate it a lot more. She likes to go around introducing herself with, "my name's Kiki, and I'm a witch. And this is Jiji. He's my black cat".
>>213016541 There is littertally only one and you have to freeze frame to see it. The rest are just bloomers, even less worrisome then seeing modern safety shorts