A Return To Spirited Away | UTS Home Theater
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2020
- Join us as we revisit Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki's classic Spirited Away! My and many others first anime, what makes Spirited Away so timeless? How was it returning to the film after all these years and as much more seasoned anime fans? Does it still stack up as a great gateway to the medium? Tune in to find out! Happy Halloween!
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Lmaoooo so true that its not no face that gave me nightmares its the thought that my parents would turn into pigs or that if I ate so much and become greedy I would turn into one 😂😂
Blasphemy!
I love Ponyo. It's for kids, so I can see why people would think it's not as sophisticated as Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke. But the details are incredible. The Devonian fish were fantastic.
My first Japanese animation was probably Astroboy on TV. The first one I knew was Japanese was Totoro, followed by Warriors of the Wind.
Seeing Nausicaa was a revelation.
I'm gonna help you. Spirited Away is my favourite film of all time. It speaks to me on a spiritual level. I used to go to Blockbuster with my parents as a kid every single week and no matter what was displayed at the moment, I'll always end up renting it at least once every 2 months. Even to this day, just the first cords of One Summers Day send my mind into a trance, as if taken away, and send a shiver down my spine. I've been watching anime consistently since 2010 and I've yet to find anything that produces such a strong reaction on me. So yeah, here you found your person hahahaha.
Imma go see spirited away so I can watch this later :')
I'm doing the same thing except with his other videos :')
These movies are better than Disney by a long shot.
From your commentary, I'm guessing I'm quite a bit older than you both. My first anime was Ghost in the Shell, and I was one of those who got through most of DB and DBZ before being introduced to Ghibli. I've also been a fan of animation in general for ages.
With that in mind, this movie in particular touched me in such a way that it is not only my favorite anime or animated film. It's my favorite film ... full stop. This reminds me that I need to give it another view, even to interrupt my current binge through all things KyoAni.
Looking back, I remember watching most Ghibli films on video tapes. Those movies were also my first anime movies and I loved them to pieces.
I remember it coming out in the video store as a kid.. in 2000/2001.. wasnt even my first anime movie.. pokemon holds that.. though when i was a kid i didnt realize it was anime.
Awesome video guys....Mr.NiesGuy, you the man!!!!!
I just rewatched Spirited Away with my family! Haha
Once upon a time I watched this movie three times in one day. I was at my sister's place, watching it alone. Half way through she and her boyfriend came in and started watching it with me till the end. Then she wanted to know, how the film started. So I pushed play it again and half way through her best friend joined us. When the movie ended again, she ask, how it started. So I started it again for the third time and nobody joint us till the end. It was a great day.😁
I LOVE Ponyo.😝😝😝 It's a great movie. My least favorite Miyazaki movie is "The wind rises".
I was a child in the '80s.
Technically, my first anime was either Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs... or Superbook. Not certain which I saw first. The former showed on my local ABC station with a bunch of other animated television shows; the latter I rented from a Christian bookstore. At the time, I guess I just saw them as part of the great diversity of art styles -- you'd never confuse Visionaries with The Little Clowns of Happytown or Rude Dog and the Dweebs -- not realizing anime would be considered kind of its own thing.
My first anime after learning the term was Azumanga Daioh, which does give it a special place in my heart. I watched a few more series and I think one movie -- Hotaru no Haka/Grave of the Fireflies -- before I finally watched Spirited Away.
Recently started on a mission to watch all the Ghibli movies. Spirited Away is my favorite. And while there are definitely videos about these films, of course there is, there's not NEARLY as many, or as much discussion/analysis of them, as I expected. Like, not even close.
It's really sad. So I'm super happy to see this video pop up. Thank you!
It's really hard for UA-camrs to talk about Ghibli films without getting claims and strikes on their channel. So most of them have to rely on stills or minimal use of clips, and a lot have decided just to play it safe and forgo it.
That said, I can't imagine trying to say something about these films (Spirited Away in particular for me) that goes beyond the usual praise and is really original.
@@ClearAsCrystal823 Something that would be amazing to see, but probably wouldnt happen specifically Because of the copyright strikes, would be shot-by-shot or scene by scene analysis, either about theme conveyed through setting and detail work, or about the technical aspects of production and purpose of shot composition and editing. Things like that....... Ghibli movies are masterworks on those fronts and I would kill to see someone do videos really digging deep into the details.
But, you're right about the copyright strikes being a huge deterant,,, Sucks
@Sincerity Nature Rly? I feel like I've seen a decent amount of videos analyzing ghibli films, maybe not scene for scene tho
The Sixth Station music along with those train visuals, still gives me goosebumps each time I see it 🤗
Having a nostalgia for your gateway anime is true. For my father it's DBZ. For me it's Fairy Tail. My brother One Piece. We all go back to watch our favorite season/arc ever so often.
Having watch Spirited Away last year for the first time after watching anime for 8+ years, it was a great anime movie, but I wouldn't rank it high on my lists of favorites nor is it my favorite Ghibli movie, that goes to When Marine was there.
Marnie is one of my favorites, too.
I bought the book, then I bought a few more of her books.
@@JustClaude13 I didn't know it was a book... I'll look more into it. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
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Regarding the spookiest point in the film being either no-face or the pig transformation scene, having seen this one in theaters, the place was packed with children brought in by their parents and without contest, it was the moment Haku in his wounded dragon form rampages into the room seeking shelter from his paper pursuers. In that moment the theater exploded with an uproar of bawling kids.
Definitely my first Ghibli as I rented it on DVD after it won the OSCAR, but my first anime film was AKIRA about 10 years earlier when it was shown on the BBC.
My first anime was roughly another 10 years earlier and was Ulysses 31 again on the BBC. Not that I realised it the time. Being a kid I just thought it was another cartoon, but it was a Japanese-French production with the story written by the French side and the animation done in Japan. The BBC later showed more of these Euro-Japanese shows that were probably really cheap to buy: Dogtanian, Mysterious Cities and Willy Fog. When most people think eighties cartoons they think Transformers or He-Man and the like, but I always think of the 4 I mentioned.
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I still haven't watched Spirited Away though...
how?
@@skooo2418 The age of my siblings.
I grew up with a lot of anime in my formative middle school/high school years. Sailor Moon, Ronin Warriors, Aeon Flux, Thundercats, Voltron, Robotech, Dragonball Z, The Big O... But it wasn't until around 98' that my view of the medium COMPLETELY changed and I realized what anime could accomplish when I saw Ghost in the Shell. It's the movie that started my real decent into my love of anime and to this day GitS is my all-time favorite anime franchise (with the exception of the contrived Innocence and the dumpster fire that's SAC 2045 on Netflix). And it saddens me that (as was stated in this video) the medium of anime has changed so drastically from the 90's to now. The type of hand drawn care that went into projects like GitS and Akira is now a thing of the past. The types of quiet and thoughtful storytelling with character study and sparse, deliberate action has now all but been replaced by action heavy spectacle with little regard for character and world building in the televised mainstream. (The difference between GitS 95' and the new SAC 2045 being a clear and present example of what my generation of the fandom wanted and what the modern generation of the fandom requires...many of these new viewers choosing to remain on the surface of the "anime iceberg" as opposed to delving deeper into its icier depths.)
The existence of Ghiblifest and movie-eat-all services in recent years means I have actually watched this one the most often in theaters itself. (It got some short runs outside of them and some runs as part of only a few Ghibli movies in like 2015-6.)
Due to personal proclivities not my favorite Miyazaki (which is Nausicaä) nor my favorite Ghibli, but in most ways I can still highlight it as “best.”
Have experienced it from seats all over the theater, including front-row-can’t-possibly-watch-all-of-it-at-once-but-can-seek-out-the-HQ, and it remains a transformative experience each and every time.
Going into the "rating" a bit... I agree, it's more likely you'll get movies changing placement on your personal lists over time. While you probably won't watch more of them than TV shows, they're less of a time investment, and tend to represent less of a "point in time" for one's anime-watching history. I will use myself as a counter-example in a moment, but I believe this holds in large part due to the distribution model of anime streaming overseas which STILL shafts movies pretty fiercely (and OVAs) compared to TV series, and because until very recently we almost completely lacked any "movie theater experience" attachement we gain with Hollywood fare. And while since 2016 this has improved notably, it was still nowhere near widespread enough to give access for all the otaku that might otherwise want it. You might, like myself, be very lucky and never have to travel more than 30 miles to conveniently catch anime showings. And even then this only helps the newest releases, and the classic ones strong enough to make it back in modern rounds. (Hence Ghiblifests and Ghibli films. Some Satoshi Kon. Very little otherwise.)
So even if you caught Spirited Away early on in anime-watching, and even if you were young, there was a good chance you did not watch it in theaters, could not repeat-watch it, and could not as easily share it with others to get the social aspect of it going. Even though movies are much easier to watch than TV shows time-wise, you have "haven't watched since 2013" or more here, despite one of the most well-known and most-appreciated anime movies out there. I think this applies to anime movies in general, and for most it lacks the same kind of nostalgia attachment or personal-meaning hooks the way a TV shows can sink in good and deep. It feels much easier to slot and shuffle them around, and especially to transplant them with modern-era movies you might have finally had the ability to see in theaters and get augmented experiences of. (Your Name, Liz and the Blue Bird, Promare...) I have been surprised at how many people pretty immediately and highly slotted Promare. To me this feels like it bears out "theater effect." Trigger certainly had lots of fans to begin with, but that was the first "BIG SCREEN TRIGGER, AAAAAHHHH!" experience possible. Redline has lots of fans too, but I imagine it would be STUPIDLY more popular if it dropped in an era where fans could take that into their eyeholes and earholes in maximal extenent.
I said earlier I would use myself as a counter-example, and what I meant by that is... I have somewhat of a reverse effect, due to when I started watching anime in the 80's. I don't really count "dub broadcasts" of stuff like Speed Racer and G-Force, but I did start watching anime raws by the end of the decade and picking up iconic stuff for the time. Bubblegum Crisis, Vampire Hunter D, etc. But due to THAT time period of anime distribution, it was TV shows that were hardest to get and appreciate. Blockbuster could much more easily stock movies and short OVA series experimenting with genres all over the map, rather than give the same shelf space to "a show" of dual-cour length. (Also, like... they really didn't do TV shows much in general.) Same thing with any other rental place, including most hobbyist shops. Companies were often trying out "two episodes per tape" and the subtitled tapes which were more directly feeding the audience were MORE expensive because fuck those guys... It was a tough find for any TV shows, even though there were plenty enough of them, and iconic ones at the time. It would be years into watching before I ever experienced "a full TV show" because even when the early broadcasts of stuff like Sailor Moon and Dragonball started happening, we were also the "ugh, dubs suck" crowd (which they did), and lamented the heavy editing (having experienced things like Warriors of the Wind), and for that and other reasons we avoided those rather than had them as formative experiences. So really didn't steer into Toonami either. It would be through fansub piracy through NYC's Chinatown that I started actually watching TV shows with any regularity. Which admittedly was around the same time, but lacked "appointment watching" and "chatting with friends at school about each episode" effects that tends to stamp these in.
Admittedly we don't tend to give undue credence to the very first stuff we watch even with nostalgia goggles, but it does lend advantage to key titles from certain time periods, and can lend to "personal lock-in effects." I would argue that things like FMAB and NGE occupy the same kind of position in TV that Spirited Away does in movie-land. Broad-consensus favorites-or-highly-rated for a variety of reasons, and especially if you were watching through that era. For me, I have a hard time plucking TV from the 80's, even while I have a huge fondness for the aesthetic; I am an unrepentant narrativist in long form, and much of my top list has been supplanted by series from the 2010's. I don't hand out many 10/10s for TV shows, and two of them (Space Brothers and Chihayafuru) I feel are more "obligatory" since those are my favorite two series, thus making Madoka Magica and the only one I grant as a concerted whole work. (So much so that I refuse to watch the Rebellion movie. 😝) Wait. Also Rakugo.
But in movies...? Many more, and I find it easy to use these as timestamps of "a certain love at a certain time" and cross many more periods of time with them. Like, I'm not going to pretend the Dirty Pair: Project Eden movie is a masterwork, but it is the epitome of "pure 80's anime" and such a rollicking good time, including and especially the soundtrack, that I cannot help but name it Masterpiece! 😝 Plenty more thinks like Beautiful Dreamer and Macross: Do You Remember Love occupy a particular headspace and I am fully acknowledging I don't rate them as singular/insular works or judge each parameter critically/objectively. I mentioned Spirited Away is neither my favorite Miyazaki nor my favorite Ghibli, and THOSE ones I don't even GIVE 10's! 😝
But Spirited Away is something I would argue is "the tennest of tens" from a critical and overall eye, even if it wanders around top 5-10 a bit due to whatever my mood happens to be at the time, or some other whimsy. Wolf Children will probably remain my #1 for a good long time due to overwhelming emotional impact, and Perfect Blue next for... very different reasons. But there is a certain purity of expression and conveyance of all the Spirited Awayness that makes it "best Miyazaki/Ghibli" and possibly "best anime of all time" even while I _like_ other things better.
It is a weird pedestal. But I think it is deservedly there.
I do wish that distracting cut with her running through the CG flower hedges didn't exist, tho. 😭
18:27 Totally Kame House.
This came at the perfect time for me. I just watch Spirited Away again with all the Ghibli films being on Netflix and didn't fully enjoy it. I hadn't loved it the first time I watched it, I also watched it a few years after getting into anime, but I wanted to give it another try and I still couldn't get into it. I felt bad for not liking this film that so many people seemed to enjoy. I've never liked any films that have body horror of humans turning into animals, and there were just a lot of scenes that made me feel sick or uncomfortable, but I liked the characters and enjoyed the quieter moments. It's nice to hear that not loving it is okay especially if I saw it after being an anime fan for years. It's not a bad movie, it has great music and some truly beautiful scenes, but I won't go out of my way to watch it again. Give me Kiki's Delivery Service, Whisper of the Heart, or Howl's Moving Castle any day and I'd be all over it.
When u talked bout spirited away not being on ur top 10 animes after viewing 400+ animes and that most people who say that it is the best mostly likely haven't gotten that far into the medium. I found it interesting cause after watching anime for like 15+ yrs I can still say that it is on my top 3 anime films. That's like after watching all of makoto shinkai, mamoru hosoda, a slient voice, Ghibli, children of the sea, Akira and some others. Granted I haven't seen any satoshi kon and ghost in the shell films so my opinions may changed. But nothing has ever had the same feeling as spirited away for me but this might be my nostalgia talking cause I was so young that I don't even remember the first time I watched that movie.
It'd be cool to have this is a podcast also
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Kumiko looks so funny😂
@MrniesGuy - You totally need to use Daiba Nana for your avatar in these.
A thoughtful review, but one which I think misses the point. The film is only partly about change. It’s about learning to move forward with confidence. The confidence is gained through rediscovering and honouring basic human and ecological values as opposed to overly material ones. The film also carries a warning; the child coming of age will have both to beware and to learn to live with greedy adults. The universality of the theme, so originally expressed through Japanese mythology, is what makes the film an all-time great.
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Something about Spirited Away is a bit too polished, maybe, to make that sort of deep connection that makes it a favorite for a lot of people. Personally would put it in my top fifteen, maybe because I connect more to the atmosphere; something about it feels very much like how I end up seeing the world around me, especially when I'm alone somewhere unfamiliar. When I went away to grad school, I was alone at a new university, in a new city, in a part of the country I had never been to (Atlantic Canada might as well be the moon compared to the Prairies). And as soon as I was unpacked and had my dorm room set up, I put up my Ghibli fan art posters I bought at a con, and watched Spirited Away and felt a little better. And it's funny, because those posters (and going to the anime club on campus for screenings) ended up helping me connect with other people in my dorm and my classes, and often the jumping off point for those connections was mutual enjoyment of Ghibli movies, rather than something in my top five. Because I love my top five anime, but I know there's stuff in them that could turn people away (I'm looking at you, Made in Abyss and Xxxholic, for very different reasons...).
Spirited Away was the first anime film I showed my mom because I knew that, to her, this wouldn't feel too dissimilar from some of the more out-there animated films I grew up on from Disney, Don Bluth, and DreamWorks, and even after I've shown Castle in the Sky (which is my favorite Ghibli film and Made in Abyss feels so much like it but darker that it actually hurts) and Porco Rosso (where I had to straight-up tell my mom to just go with him being a pig), Spirited Away is still her favorite.
'deep into the unknown' 18:01
Was Spirited Away the first 5 anime that I watched? Now that I think of it, it might be actually true. Pokemon, Digimon, One Piece were the first 3. Then somewhere down the line Naruto (and Shippuden) and maybe Spirited Away. All I know is that Spirited Away was the first anime movie that I watched (if you don't count the Pokemon and Digimon movie)
im both late to this video and old. been watching anime consistently since the mid 90s. and spirited away is something i watched when i came out and felt it a solid film but....meh. i rewatched it a year or 2 ago with my sister's kids and while they loved it i didnt feel anything great about it. maybe going from an 8.5/10 to a 7.5/10.
Bring in the "first" comments
Amazing video bro 👍 but so low views....
Spirited Away was decent but Princess Mononoke will always be superior. Facts.
To everyone his opinion I guess. To say it's a "fact" is wrong as hell though. Spirited Away won an Oscar and sold way more tickets, and is also much more highly acclaimed in general.
I just have an issue with Mononoke's ending. Other than that it was good.
@@francis6489 Imagine thinking a movie is better than another as long as it has won an Oscar. Could never be me.
@@flamingpenetrator3705 Just saying it's much more critically acclaimed than Mononoke which makes your "facts" comment pretty dumb.
@@francis6489 you dumb
Bloody DUBS, it just had to be DUBBED 👎👎👎
Well it is Halloween so technically “bloody dubs” is very appropriate.
For me, this movie was overrated, didn't enjoyed it at all! Completely boring!
That's just your personal opinion. This movie is almost universally loved and seen as one of the best anime movies in history.
@@francis6489 And that would be why they said "for me"