What was your first?

[Freya]

Princess Mononoke for me. I was young, it was badass. After that I was at the point where I thought the other ones were too baby for me (spirited away) it wasn't until a few years later when I watched the others.

What was your first Ghibli film?

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Spirited Away was my first. I didn't like it, haha. I love it now, but yeah.

Actually, I may have seen some of Kiki's Delivery Service before that... but I don't remember for sure if I ever watched any of that one.

[Psychotic]

I don't remember - I think it was most likely Spirited Away, but it could have been Princess Mononoke.

[Tavrobel]

Princess Mononoke. My cousins got a copy of it from the local Blockbuster and I watched it. I watched it again recently using a copy from my local Blockbuster, it felt the same as when I first watched it.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I can't remember if it was the Nausicaa manga, Spirited Away, or Princess Mononoke...

[Mo-Nercy]

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, though it's technically not a Studio Ghibli film since it was made before the studio was formed. If that doesn't count, I think either Kiki's Delivery Service or Porco Rosso was my first one. I wasn't really hooked by either of those two though, although I've come to appreciate them now. Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke really won me over though. I'm not sure if I really understood them back then as a kid, but I remember being pretty amazed by the mystical wonder of the city of Laputa and the Forest Spirit in Mononoke.

I've got some catching up to do though. The most recent Ghibli film I've seen was Ponyo.

[Shauna]

Spirited Away was my first. I actually watched it in Japanese because kawaii desu!

Nah, I think it was just the first one I acquired from the internet. I cannot remember what spurned me on to seek it out though.

I have since watched all of the ones (legally) available to me in the West. :3

[Dat Matt]

Sprited away. It was the first movie I saw in the cinema without parental supervision too. My brothers and I went into Glasgow and watched it when I was about 11 or so. Ah to be young

[Wolf Kanno]

I was just getting into anime at the time I found out Princess Mononoke was being released in the art house theaters. It changed my life and made me want to be a writer or film director. It is not only my favorite Miyazaki film but my favorite film of all time and if you ever have the chance to see in in a theater, I highly recommend it.

[Jinx]

I'm not sure! I think it's actually Kiki's Delivery Service, but maybe Spirited Away? One of those two! :)

[Rantz]

Spirited Away. The movie spirited me away to a newfound land of wonderful ghibli. :)

[Vyk]

I think Mononoke? I know I had seen the Ghibli logo in previous "affiliated" movies, but I don't think I'd seen a legit in-house production from them before that. It's a wonder the movie is not my favorite. I honestly think I probably enjoy it a lot more than the others. But my favorite is Nausicaa (as Mo said, not really Ghibli, but you'd really have to split hairs to legitimately argue that. Basically it was theirs just before they had that particular name). Nausicaa isn't actually as entertaining as Mononoke, but there's a lot more I appreciate about it. The drama and characters are a little more realistic to me. Mononoke is more of a good fantasy. But a lot of those things wouldn't actually happen if that were a real world. The things in Nausicaa I can totally see happening. The attitudes and struggles and character developments. Miyazaki had a craft in legitimate drama and subtlety that most of Japan struggles to create even to this day. And I still call them out on confusing melodrama for real drama. They all should have taken a page from his book

[Wolf Kanno]

Actually, if I'm going to go by something that Studio Ghibli worked on but isn't actually affiliated with them, I would say it's this:

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[Vyk]

Ohhh, that's kind of a guilty pleasure movie for me. I adored it when I was young for some reason. So I still find myself glad that it exists, even if it is a little silly and weird

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Oh, I didn't know Little Nemo had Ghibli people working on it! That was my first anime movie I ever saw!

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

Princess Mononoke for me as well. A great film. Still probably my favorite of them all.

[Mirage]

Princess Mononoke was the one to take my virginity.

[Depression Moon]

The only one I've seen is Howl's Moving Castle and did we get a new sub-forum?

[Shlup]

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I can't wait until Bailey is old enough to watch Totoro with me. Though I think Ponyo's my favorite.

[Loony BoB]

Spirited Away. It wasn't my favourite. That probably goes to Princess Monoke or My Friend Totoro or something.

[Shauna]

My Friend Totoro

:stare:


EDIT: Wow, Wikipedia tells me this is actually a thing that My Neighbour Totoro was titled as. I will continue to :stare: though, because I'll be damned if I back down now.

[Loony BoB]

I just generally call it "that Totoro one". In my defence, it allowed me to avoid the awful American spelling of neighbour. Also in my defence, let's face it, if we want to get technical about such things we could go and say Tonari no Totoro or となりのトトロ. Yay Wikipedia?

Will happily concede that My Friend Totoro is not the correct translation and settle on My Bro Totoro.

[AssassinDX]

Spirited Away for me, in the UK they show it on TV every year around Christmas time and five or six years ago they showed it on Christmas day.

After being blitzed off my face and eating my own body weight in food I like to sit down and fall asleep with a movie for a couple of hours in the afternoon at Christmas, but I enjoyed Spirited Away so much I stayed awake from start to finish. It also started my love of anime, and even now I'm still working through a lot of the popular stuff before moving on to the more niche titles.

[Bubba]

Spirited Away was my first and I wasn't sure what I thought of it the first time round. The second time I loved it though. My favourite Ghibli film is probably Howl's Moving Castle. I just fell in love with it.


They got me watching a lot of other classic Anime stuff as well like Grave of the Fireflies. Me and my friend Chris actually watched Akira at 11pm at night in a cinema in Glasgow a few years ago. It was ridiculously good.

[Shauna]

Ah man, you were at Scotland Loves Anime at the GFT? Matt and I try to go every year. xD

[Bubba]

Ah man, you were at Scotland Loves Anime at the GFT? Matt and I try to go every year. xD

Thats the one! It was great.

For some reason Chris took us both to the casino afterwards about 2am. That was a particularly poor move.

[chionos]

Nausicaä. Then Kiki's, then Laputa, I believe. I think I truly fell in love, though, when I watched Totoro, which was like 4th or 5th. And they've all grown on me even further over time. I think this is especially true of Kiki's Delivery Service.

[noxious.sunshine]

Mononoke. I didn't really get it though, so I didn't like it.

Must go on a Ghibli marathon now and watch all of them.

[Colonel Angus]

Spirited Away. I saw it in college, as the Anime Club had an open screening of it. This was before the English dub & I loved it. I still do.