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Animated movies that I often rewatch (in no particular order): - Spirited Away - Grave of the Fireflies - Finding Dory - Up - Tokyo Godfathers - Akira (NO

Animated movies that I often rewatch (in no particular order): - Spirited Away - Grave of the Fireflies - Finding Dory - Up - Tokyo Godfathers - Akira (NOT the English dub, which completely changes the story and dialogue for the worse, and for no good reason) - Mononoke Hime - Ghost in the Shell (the original one) - My Neighbor Totoro Animated series I'll rewatch: - Guardian of the Sacred Spirit - Castlevania - Futurama - Archer - Arcane - Cowboy Bebop - Ergo Proxy - The Dragon Prince - Hakaba Kitaro - Star Trek: Lower Decks

flanbiscuit 4y ago
I recently got into a Bob's Burgers kick, that show is delightful.
- lioeters 4y ago
  That reminds me, Central Park is a fun series by some of the same creators. Sweet stories, and I enjoy the music most of all.
  - flanbiscuit 4y ago
    I haven't checked that out, thanks for the tip!
Beldin 4y ago
I'll chime in with: - Batmat TAS - Gargoyles - Howl's moving castle And if you'll allow "animation" to also cover animatronics and puppetry: - The Storyteller - Labyrinth
freetime2 4y ago
I have not been able to bring myself to rewatch Grave of the Fireflies more than once. Just thinking about it is almost enough to make me tear up.
- madmax108 4y ago
  +1. Even just seeing the "easter egg" in the poster of the movie that was discovered a few years back was enough to get my eyes to well up. Such an incredible movie, but not something I think I'll ever rewatch! "‘Grave of the Fireflies’ Poster Has Heartbreaking Easter Egg Discovered 30 Years After Release": https://nextshark.com/grave-fireflies-poster-hidden/ https://nextshark.com/grave-fireflies-poster-hidden/
- yieldcrv 4y ago
  I recently rewatched it, kind of facing my fear of being sad and depressed and oh my god what a different perspective I have now! The shock factor is completely gone, the gory and meant to be traumatic parts aren’t that bad like I’m always waiting for the part that is triggering and it just doesn't come. And the main characters I can basically only laugh at, the story is a cautionary tale of degeneracy and all the adults point out other choices the whole time. I completely didn’t notice the first time I saw it as a pre-teen. I just saw freedom, desperation that nobody helped and shock at the resolution. I completely missed that it starts as an anonymous homeless person dying their last breath in a subway station, and ending with it. Seeing that and how I actively avoid that specific scenario and so could these main characters, its more of a comedy at “watch this dumbass burn every bridge with the worst decisions” an expected and purely Machiavellian outcome, as its so common in the cities I live in, and everyone compassionate realizes they cant help people that cant help themselves. The story moreso shows humanizing to the dead anonymous homeless off in the corner, but not really empathy as it might be interpreted, just caution of how not to make those choices. the adults point out other choices the whole time, the writers put that in there.
  - tetris11 4y ago
    Everything's obvious in hindsight though, which is why watching it for the first time really hits so hard because you genuinely see none of it coming.
  - WastingMyTime89 4y ago
    I don’t think you are getting it. Grave of the firefly is not a cautionary tale. You are failing to put it in its cultural context. Seita mostly acts or try to act as would be expected from a Japanese man at this time and the people around him are actually not really trying or failing to help because they are trying to survive the war too. Takahata is actually extremely sympathetic to their plight. In a lot of ways it is a reverse Hollywood war movie. There is no real heroism. Courage is pointless, people selfish in their will to survive. The protagonists are clueless and ineffective but they are touching in their humanity and try to root for each other and yet they fail and die forgotten. It’s really a movie about how much of a waste war is. Takahata doesn’t even try to introduce suspense and plays it straight from the beginning. You know from the beginning that the protagonists struggle is pointless and that’s the point.
tralarpa 4y ago
Kiki's Delivery Service when you had a bad day. Or a good day. Or an average day.
- joshspankit 4y ago
  Or when you need to make big life choices
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  It’s interesting how my appreciation of the “minor” Miyazaki movies grew with times. I genuinely believe both Spirited Away and Momonoke Hope are better films from a critical standpoint but Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso and The Castle of Cagliostro are the ones I have rewatched the most. Miyazaki really is a master of the adventure genre. All his movies are incredibly tight when it comes to the pacing and I think lighter plots allow this to really shine and make for incredibly breezy movies.
  - flanbiscuit 4y ago
    Kiki's is a warm blanket. No major or epic dramatic things happen in it. It's just beautiful imagery and Kiki trying to navigate her new life in the city, with some minor conflict and struggles.
sdrinf 4y ago
Once in a decade, give Serial Experiments Lain a rewatch. Check each piece of then-crazy-futuristic-technology which since become commonplace; and all the sociological problems which did not get solved then, or since. Eerily prescient.
- poser-boy 4y ago
  I'm also a fan of Lain. Looking back, I think it's best if you watch Neon Genesis Evangelion first, and then go into Lain with the expectation that half of the scenes were inspired by the trippy introspective scenes in Eva. As someone who watched Lain first, I found it much harder to follow as half of the scenes were distinctively dream-like and weren't "happening".
idiocrat 4y ago
Warm movies: - Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019) - Leap! (2016) And for the series you are really missing out on: - Final Space (the first season only)
fredley 4y ago
Bojack Horseman used to be top of my list, but now enough has happened in my life I find it a struggle to watch certain episodes.
codeduck 4y ago
Given you like the Miyazake movies so much, you really should give Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/70019062 https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/70019062) a watch. Avoid the American "Warriors of the Wind" because it is terrible, for reasons similar to what you wrote about Akira.
- nvln 4y ago
  Glad to see Nausicaä mentioned. While I find it really hard to rate Miyazaki movies (usually the most recent rewatch becomes my favorite), the deep echoing philosophy of Nausicaä and Princess Mononoke is definitely underrated. I love how one of the comments talks about Roger Ebert calling the lamp post a gift. The entirety of Studio Ghibli is a gift. The empowering characters and almost eternal, non-preachy, storylines are truly some of the greatest epics in modern times.
  - codeduck 4y ago
    And, of course, Ohmu are fricking rad as hell.
finikytou 4y ago
tokyo godfather and all the satoshi kon movies are pinacle of the genre. his tv show paranoia agent as well
weard_beard 4y ago
Avatar the last air bender should be on this list. Thank me later :-)
- bombcar 4y ago
  The tv show, of course. There never was a movie and anything to the contrary should be censored heavily, first amendment be damned.
- menesss 4y ago
  I was surprised to see The Dragon Prince but not ATLA. Even on rewatches, the show is powerful for me. There are two episodes that will always make me at least tear up. I would almost hazard to say it is a perfect show for youth. Even the youth qualifier feels shaky sometimes. Just to add in, an animated show I have rewatched a lot that still inspires me is "Ping Pong the Animation". I recommend the original voice work for the initial run, especially if you understand Chinese. They recasted one of the characters for the bluray release, and the delivery is not quite right in my opinion.
  - sdrinf 4y ago
    | There are two episodes that will always make me at least tear up Tales of Ba Sing Se & Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters? ;)
    - menesss 4y ago
      edit: no you are right, The Old Masters gets me too. I just rewatched it and :'( Half right! "Tales of Ba Sing Se" and the very next episode "Appa's Lost Days", which apparently won a Genesis Award for Outstanding Children's Programming [0]. [0]: https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0000274/2007/1 https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0000274/2007/1

flanbiscuit 4y ago

I recently got into a Bob's Burgers kick, that show is delightful.

lioeters 4y ago
That reminds me, Central Park is a fun series by some of the same creators. Sweet stories, and I enjoy the music most of all.
- flanbiscuit 4y ago
  I haven't checked that out, thanks for the tip!

Beldin 4y ago

I'll chime in with: - Batmat TAS - Gargoyles - Howl's moving castle And if you'll allow "animation" to also cover animatronics and puppetry: - The Storyteller - Labyrinth

freetime2 4y ago

I have not been able to bring myself to rewatch Grave of the Fireflies more than once. Just thinking about it is almost enough to make me tear up.

madmax108 4y ago
+1. Even just seeing the "easter egg" in the poster of the movie that was discovered a few years back was enough to get my eyes to well up. Such an incredible movie, but not something I think I'll ever rewatch! "‘Grave of the Fireflies’ Poster Has Heartbreaking Easter Egg Discovered 30 Years After Release": https://nextshark.com/grave-fireflies-poster-hidden/ https://nextshark.com/grave-fireflies-poster-hidden/
yieldcrv 4y ago
I recently rewatched it, kind of facing my fear of being sad and depressed and oh my god what a different perspective I have now! The shock factor is completely gone, the gory and meant to be traumatic parts aren’t that bad like I’m always waiting for the part that is triggering and it just doesn't come. And the main characters I can basically only laugh at, the story is a cautionary tale of degeneracy and all the adults point out other choices the whole time. I completely didn’t notice the first time I saw it as a pre-teen. I just saw freedom, desperation that nobody helped and shock at the resolution. I completely missed that it starts as an anonymous homeless person dying their last breath in a subway station, and ending with it. Seeing that and how I actively avoid that specific scenario and so could these main characters, its more of a comedy at “watch this dumbass burn every bridge with the worst decisions” an expected and purely Machiavellian outcome, as its so common in the cities I live in, and everyone compassionate realizes they cant help people that cant help themselves. The story moreso shows humanizing to the dead anonymous homeless off in the corner, but not really empathy as it might be interpreted, just caution of how not to make those choices. the adults point out other choices the whole time, the writers put that in there.
- tetris11 4y ago
  Everything's obvious in hindsight though, which is why watching it for the first time really hits so hard because you genuinely see none of it coming.
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  I don’t think you are getting it. Grave of the firefly is not a cautionary tale. You are failing to put it in its cultural context. Seita mostly acts or try to act as would be expected from a Japanese man at this time and the people around him are actually not really trying or failing to help because they are trying to survive the war too. Takahata is actually extremely sympathetic to their plight. In a lot of ways it is a reverse Hollywood war movie. There is no real heroism. Courage is pointless, people selfish in their will to survive. The protagonists are clueless and ineffective but they are touching in their humanity and try to root for each other and yet they fail and die forgotten. It’s really a movie about how much of a waste war is. Takahata doesn’t even try to introduce suspense and plays it straight from the beginning. You know from the beginning that the protagonists struggle is pointless and that’s the point.

tralarpa 4y ago

Kiki's Delivery Service when you had a bad day. Or a good day. Or an average day.

joshspankit 4y ago
Or when you need to make big life choices
WastingMyTime89 4y ago
It’s interesting how my appreciation of the “minor” Miyazaki movies grew with times. I genuinely believe both Spirited Away and Momonoke Hope are better films from a critical standpoint but Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso and The Castle of Cagliostro are the ones I have rewatched the most. Miyazaki really is a master of the adventure genre. All his movies are incredibly tight when it comes to the pacing and I think lighter plots allow this to really shine and make for incredibly breezy movies.
- flanbiscuit 4y ago
  Kiki's is a warm blanket. No major or epic dramatic things happen in it. It's just beautiful imagery and Kiki trying to navigate her new life in the city, with some minor conflict and struggles.

sdrinf 4y ago

Once in a decade, give Serial Experiments Lain a rewatch. Check each piece of then-crazy-futuristic-technology which since become commonplace; and all the sociological problems which did not get solved then, or since. Eerily prescient.

poser-boy 4y ago
I'm also a fan of Lain. Looking back, I think it's best if you watch Neon Genesis Evangelion first, and then go into Lain with the expectation that half of the scenes were inspired by the trippy introspective scenes in Eva. As someone who watched Lain first, I found it much harder to follow as half of the scenes were distinctively dream-like and weren't "happening".

idiocrat 4y ago

Warm movies: - Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019) - Leap! (2016) And for the series you are really missing out on: - Final Space (the first season only)

fredley 4y ago

Bojack Horseman used to be top of my list, but now enough has happened in my life I find it a struggle to watch certain episodes.

codeduck 4y ago

Given you like the Miyazake movies so much, you really should give Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/70019062 https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/70019062) a watch. Avoid the American "Warriors of the Wind" because it is terrible, for reasons similar to what you wrote about Akira.

nvln 4y ago
Glad to see Nausicaä mentioned. While I find it really hard to rate Miyazaki movies (usually the most recent rewatch becomes my favorite), the deep echoing philosophy of Nausicaä and Princess Mononoke is definitely underrated. I love how one of the comments talks about Roger Ebert calling the lamp post a gift. The entirety of Studio Ghibli is a gift. The empowering characters and almost eternal, non-preachy, storylines are truly some of the greatest epics in modern times.
- codeduck 4y ago
  And, of course, Ohmu are fricking rad as hell.

finikytou 4y ago

tokyo godfather and all the satoshi kon movies are pinacle of the genre. his tv show paranoia agent as well

weard_beard 4y ago

Avatar the last air bender should be on this list. Thank me later :-)

bombcar 4y ago
The tv show, of course. There never was a movie and anything to the contrary should be censored heavily, first amendment be damned.
menesss 4y ago
I was surprised to see The Dragon Prince but not ATLA. Even on rewatches, the show is powerful for me. There are two episodes that will always make me at least tear up. I would almost hazard to say it is a perfect show for youth. Even the youth qualifier feels shaky sometimes. Just to add in, an animated show I have rewatched a lot that still inspires me is "Ping Pong the Animation". I recommend the original voice work for the initial run, especially if you understand Chinese. They recasted one of the characters for the bluray release, and the delivery is not quite right in my opinion.
- sdrinf 4y ago
  | There are two episodes that will always make me at least tear up Tales of Ba Sing Se & Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters? ;)
  - menesss 4y ago
    edit: no you are right, The Old Masters gets me too. I just rewatched it and :'( Half right! "Tales of Ba Sing Se" and the very next episode "Appa's Lost Days", which apparently won a Genesis Award for Outstanding Children's Programming [0]. [0]: https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0000274/2007/1 https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0000274/2007/1