i would comment on how it's another example of miyazaki's ecofascism but i watched the chinese dub in 2002 and then blocked it out of my childhood memory because it was too scary

I understood the basic plot, but I feel like there is More To Understand.

The key to understanding Spirited Away is that it's meant as a way to pass along values to specifically Japanese kids in 2001, but it's doing so in an open ended dreamy way. It's a lecture from your granddad that spins off wildly. I don't think there's really that much there, it just boils down to "work hard, there's no shortcuts, don't be greedy" but it's kind of fascinating anyway.

I'm not as big on Miyazaki as I am on the rest of the great Japanese animators, he's so focused on achieving a certain standard of quality that there's a lack of risk in the projects he takes on and they kind of turn out blah. He's definitely a great entertainer tho and there's some undeniable masterpieces. I love Porco Rosso and was pleasantly surprised that The Boy and The Heron rules

these days dubs are almost always good

I would argue against this, just because there's so many speed dubs that come out as fast as possible, like weeks after the shows air. They can be pretty bad depending on the show! But yeah most movies have great dubs.

Don't worry about anyone being elitist over subs versus dubs. There's a lasting stigma because some older dubs really sucked, but these days dubs are almost always good. Voice acting is taken a lot more seriously as a profession, and they don't cut corners anymore when it comes to hiring good talent.

It's been a long time since I watched Spirited Away, it is old enough to come from that era when some dubs were bad, but this was a high budget film and they put a lot of love and care into bringing it to the west. I definitely loved it as a kid.

studio ghibli films have really solid dubs tbh. also good first film from them to watch tbh

also for possibly comparable studios, if lieu of "auteurs," i'd say disney movies in japan are more hugely popular than ghibli movies in the states. that's probably in part due to the power of the american entertainment exporting machine lol

A cool post. Appreciated.

I want more than anything to be metamorphosed into a sort of bacterial cellulose cyborg

Pwease no steppy

I can recommend image searching bacterial cellulose, it looks great! Someone 3D printed an ear out of it

Very good!

This happens in Happy Death Day 2U. In the second movie the same thing happens again, to the same people even, which is especially funny seeing as it's a time loop movie, but this time we get the explanation behind why it happened in the first place. Sounds shit on paper but I really enjoyed it.

Just like in human centipede... A good date movie?

You'll know when you're older

please elaborate, because i don't know anything about dressage. or prostates. personally i am very antistate

it could be better so far!!

yes!! some of our best forums are basically for just one person to post. even if you were the only raver in all of jstpst, we want to see yur posts :3

thank you

i did trans my gender this decade so thats at least one good thing that happened for me personally

if we had true interoperability you'd have access to all your data locally and could train an offline AI on that data

for me personally I have had some exceedingly shite years and a couple of big revelations so far this decade so who even knows on balance!

0.0000001% of communism has already been built, just 99.9999999% more to go !

it's looking that way, but we still have half a decade to turn it around

hope they didn't get whacked

Neku is 8 feet tall!

to all you naysayers: devtesla remembers and that's all that matters toe me