Okay so this has been there in my mind since I found out neil gaiman had something to do with it.

Is it good for a typical neil fan? I dont like anime. All my friends flip over it but i dont like the style of art and all the movies my friends made me watch were really, really stupid.

Would I still like this?

well. what anime movies did your friends make you watch?
mononoke is not "typical" anime.
if you trust neil's taste/recommendations, i'd say mononoke is a good bet.

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Originally posted by fluffyllama:
well. what anime movies did your friends make you watch?
mononoke is not "typical" anime.
if you trust neil's taste/recommendations, i'd say mononoke is a good bet.

I forget all the names. Just weird like ninjas and monters and what ever else.

Did any of them feature a bus made out of a cat?

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if you trust neil's taste/recommendations, i'd say mononoke is a good bet.

i agree with it. i say watch princess mononoke regardless, it's a good enjoyable anime with a good plot and vast creativity. then, give your opinion about it.

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Originally posted by aitapata:
Did any of them feature a bus made out of a cat?

No. Lots of them had aliens though.

Bah. Board ate my post

I was saying, it's not the anime that you don't like, it's the genere of the film 8anime is just the way a film is done, not what it's about). I don't like action films, in general, so some anime my friends like is boring to me. But, for example, I liked Ghost in the shell coz it's sci-fi stuff.

Princess Mononoke is not an "action movie" as such, i'd call it fantasy 8although it has a bit of action, and a bit of epic, and a bit of other stuff). It's beautiful and heartbreaking, it's about nature, about progress, it's a hero's journey, it's about relationships...

In other words, watch it!

okay that does it.



*stomps off to watch it*

I'm a huge anime fan, especially for Ghibli films (^_^); let us know what you think!

I haven't seen "Princess Mononoke", bu I've seen other Miyazaki's anime, and I've found them cool. Animation is fantastic. Try with "Howl's moving castle". I think you could enjoy it

I just saw it today on Film4 (well, most of it. I missed the begining.

Well, what did you think?
I wanted to add to everybody else's reccomedation of it. I showed Princess Mononoke to my MOM who gets pissed off by even a hint of stupidity/kitsch in movies and leaves the room. If she thought it was a great mythology-type fairy tale, then anyone will surely like it.
To the original poster - tell your friends to leave off the bullshit anime and show you something stylish. There's enough different stories and styles in anime and if you didn't like anything you saw so far then your friends haven't been showing you enough high-class stuff. I really want to know what you think of it when you finally see it. Anyway, to me Princess Mononoke ranks third out of my fav Ghibli movies. Spirited Away and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are the other two.

Well i don't like anime too. Besides few rare exceptions, wich r as a matter of fact quite unusual even for the genre itself.
But i love Myiazaki's work! He's approach to animation and storytelling is so personal that makes his works one of a kind. I don't even consider Myiazaki's movie as good anime, i think of them as really good animation movies.
And Mononoke is one of my favourite

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Originally posted by Viki:
Well, what did you think?
I wanted to add to everybody else's reccomedation of it. I showed Princess Mononoke to my MOM who gets pissed off by even a hint of stupidity/kitsch in movies and leaves the room. If she thought it was a great mythology-type fairy tale, then anyone will surely like it.
To the original poster - tell your friends to leave off the bullshit anime and show you something stylish. There's enough different stories and styles in anime and if you didn't like anything you saw so far then your friends haven't been showing you enough high-class stuff. I really want to know what you think of it when you finally see it. Anyway, to me Princess Mononoke ranks third out of my fav Ghibli movies. Spirited Away and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are the other two.

I had downloaded it but then my comp's sound card decided to kill itself so I still have not seen it.

Well, I'm glad you gave it a chance anyway, I"ll be waiting for your opinion whenever you fix the soundcard.

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Originally posted by just_another_rider:
I don't even consider Myiazaki's movie as good anime, i think of them as really good animation movies.

That's exactly right! On the extra features for the Princess Mononoke disk I rememebr a small snippet of Neil Gaiman commenting something like "Miyazaki's stories are so amazing that he makes them as animation because a live-action movie could never convey everything he had in mind" Or something to that effect.
Another Japanese animation director who works with a similar view of storytelling is Satoshi Kon. Most of his stories could have been filmed with actors, but werent. "Tokyo Godfathers" is one of my favorite animated movies because it tells a wonderful story about three bums who find a lost baby on Christmas night. It is made just like a movie, and the characters seem very much alive...actually I think I would have liked it with actors too. I often wonder why the choice was made to animate it, since it's so life-like. Check out some of the artwork: http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/tokyogodfathers/

I'd think that Anyone that's a fan of Sandman/American Gods would absolutely LOVE Spirited Away. It's every bit as imaginative as Gaiman, and virtually anyone with a creative bone in their body holds Miyazaki in very high regards.

My personal favorites of Miyazaki's also include My Neighbour Totoro, Porco Rosso, and a Television Series he did called 'Future Boy Conan' (it's very difficult to find, but has a Nausicaa/Castle In The Sky type feel).

Wow!..i didn't knew 'Conan' has been realesed in ENG!..well it was one of the biggest influence in my childhood, it was on italian tv when i was at elementary school and until today i consider it the best anime series ever made! And has been absolutely a seminal work for Miyazaki, you can find in it the first signs of every topic he will touch or develop in all of this future filmography.
I have no idea how hard is to find it in USA or wherever you are guys, but if you are into Miyazaki should try to get a copy!

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Originally posted by Eldi:
Okay so this has been there in my mind since I found out neil gaiman had something to do with it.

Is it good for a typical neil fan? I dont like anime. All my friends flip over it but i dont like the style of art and all the movies my friends made me watch were really, really stupid.

Would I still like this?

Do you know exactly what he did?

Neil took the English translation of the script and adapted the words to both fit the animation and sound good

If you like Neil work you would probably enjoy it.

http://www.thenarutogang.com/