Thanks to the prodding of some blogs, I decided to go sample the wonderful world of Studio Ghibli this week. Having only seen Grave of the Fireflies beforehand, which left me incredibly depressed (until I got someone else to watch it, lol), I’ve never seen anything else.
I helped myself to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind today. It was just as what I expected, and more. By the end of the movie, I was already suppressing girly tears, in which the timely arrival of magical healing tentacle rape cured. Only by Ghibli. Given how many shows I’ve been following this month, Nausicaa left a big impression on me, with a toxic, beautiful post-apocalyptic world. I’m a sucker for anime-created worlds, and it just shows. Is it even wrong that I find ohmu adorable? Because they’re just scared, enraged, and it’s obviously our fault!
