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What's your favorite animation and why? (sh.itjust.works)
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My friend's kid is hooked on Ponyo right now, and I feel like that will be the Miyazaki film burned into her soul from here on forward.

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[–] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You were supposed to say why! Since you didn't, here are some big positives

  • Soundtrack absolutely slaps. I still regularly listen to the two OSTs, they are by Yoko Kanno who is a prolific anime composer but there's just something about these scores that's so good
  • Budget was obviously big so some of the visuals are generally awesome. Ok it wasn't quite Akira levels but for a mini series it has some really great animation
  • The plot is maybe a little cheesy but it's weirdly relevant now, a classic AI gone rogue story with some interesting character heroes who need to defeat it
  • This will sound silly but it's the first time I saw wireless headphones in anything and then 20 years later ish we had them haha