So… normally this time of year I do a big anniversary top 10 list. I had an idea to do the same this year, but real life concerns got in the way of the amount of work the particular concept would have taken. This won’t affect the weekly reviews, because I try to keep a buffer of those, but it does mean that I was sort of caught out when it came to the annual weirdness.
So, instead of a Top Ten, I thought I’d take a quick look at a few of the works of Hayao Miyazaki. I normally don’t comment on films, rather than series, though I have looked at movies in the past, and the Miyazaki films in particular seemed a little awkward to take looks at because… well, briefly put, they’re all great. These are seriously some pieces of work that live up to their hype, and it’s hard to imagine they won’t remain enduring cultural icons.
But, in the spirit of doing something different for the year mark of this blog, I thought I’d get my thoughts down on a few of them, reacting in a more extemporaneous fashion than I normally do, just to have my comments on record. And, unlike my normal reviews, this will be if not spoiler free than at least spoiler-lite, trying to avoid major spoilers for the two people who haven’t seen these films. That out of the way, let’s dive in.
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