What impresses me the most is that Princess M. gives you a comprehensive picture of its mythology, while still providing plenty of negative space for your imagination on to wander and wonder.
Absolutely agred! And I think this is one of the triumphs of well written worldbuilding - you get a sizeable chunk of the world, and that's enough for you to PROJECT. You have an idea of everything you didn't get to learn, and it's always bigger than what you managed to comprehend. Good stuff, right there :)
Princess Mononoke really is such a masterpiece and it's interesting what lessons we can all learn from the way Miyazaki constructed it. Nice job with this video!
how is this video just getting on my radar! you’re so right for this. that’s what i love about soft worldbuilding. that emotion of pure reverence is a result of every other little emotion leading up to it
The works from Studio Ghibli greatly influence my writing as a TTRPG game master. Mainly the gentle way Miyazaki treats the world, even it's "darker" parts like death, which is perfectly shown in Princess Mononoke: The Shishigami bringing both life and death with every step and San healing her brothers but being covered in their blood are two of my favorite details about this movie. Beautiful video!
The idea of a TTRPG that's as soft and spiritual as a Miyazaki movie is just pure gold to me! What system are you working with? :) (I'm no specialist, but I dabble)
@@JoriamRamos I use D&D as a shell, to make it easier for my new players, and then I homebrew (and invent/break a lot of rules) a lot around it. Though I am planning to try to search for/make a system specifically focused on this.
Everytime I listen to wind as it sweeps through the leaves of a tree, making this wonderful rustling sound and everytime I watch, as the wind sweeps through the leaves of a tree making them dance in trance, The way they shake, ever since I watched Mononoke, I think of Myasakis depiction of the Kodama.
This is a very very good video! The one suggestion I would make is maybe make it a bit loud or speak closer to the mic? I had to boost my volume a lot more from other videos and I still had trouble hearing some things. You have a lot of good observations here, keep it up!
Really? oh! That's surprising! I generally test my volume levels against other similar channels I'll pay more attention to it! Thank you for the feedback :)
Have you watched Masayuki Miyaji's adaptation of The Deer King? The magic system in that has a certain Miyazaki feel to it, but they also try to have a science based explanation for a lot of the other mystical happenings. Kind of a fun mixture of realism and fantasy.
Thank you for the video, it was very interesting and touching ! I know its a detail but i recognized one of Breath of the wild songs during the video, and i often think how playing this game feels like being in a miyazaki film, especially mononoke hime !
The way you describe it reminds me of a scene from Dan Simmons's Hyperion. The first encounter with the Shrike. There are many similarities to Miyazaki in terms of narrative tools. Instead of Kodama, Simmons uses the primitive Bikura people. The first time we "see" the Shrike is from far away. It is giant. It's shape is generally familiar but uncanny and weird at the same time. Wicked. And hell, as a reader you have no idea what is going on... But still, you are hooked. At least I was. Gripping the book, flipping the pages, reading and catching my breath as if it was me who looked into the eyes of the monster. So yeah, emotions lvl master ;) The main difference between Princess Mononoke and Hyperion is though that the latter uses fear, not wonder. You still deal with the unknown, but boy... You wish you didn't know ;) Great vid as always! Thanks for the analysis!
Eita! Um camarada Brasileiro. Que surpresa maravilhosa! Estou cativado por seus vídeos, vem sendo uma inspiração para mim no meu processo de criar uma campanha de RPG, humildemente espero conseguir passar um pouco desse encanto, reverência e estranheza durante minha narração do jogo.
Cara, que maneiro! Quanto eu penso em RPG, em geral eu penso numa coisa mais D&D, mais focada em combate, sabe? Se você conseguir trazer esse encantamento mais suave pra mesa, acho que você vai impressionar muita gente :) eu sei que eu me impressionaria!
@@JoriamRamos im not sure about your area but in mine a group called GKIDS does special movie events. They do ghibli as well as other movies like coraline
eu tava bem ansioso com umas questões pessoais aqui não conseguindo tirar minha cabeça dos problemas quando encontrei esse video. amo demais princesa mononoke, tenho vários kodamas tatuados pelo corpo, e ouvir você falando de forma tão "sublime" sobre essa história relaxou meu coraçãozinho de uma forma que você não faz ideia. mt obrigado por esse video tão gostoso de se assistir :')
Que bom ler isso, Gabriel! E eu sei exatamente qual eh esse sentimento que voce ta falando. Eh bem por esse sentimento que eu comecei a fazer videos pro youtube :) que bom que eu cheguei la!
hello and great video! i am intrigued by your process of transcribing these films to text, and would love to read your transcription of mononoke if you would share it :)
Heyo :) and thank you! I have a couple of videos with transcriptions and breakdowns - and fortunately one of them is about Mononoke! Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/76pcdVr3oSQ/v-deo.html Hope you like it!
Do you think the "NotDeer" is inspired by the deer God in this movie? The "NotDeer" has forward facing eyes and all prey species have side eyes, making it uncanny
Hey, thanks for saying that! I'm still on the fence about this whole thing (more context in the description), but perhaps that's a way forward that doesn't rely on the Midjourneys and Dall-Es :)
I feel like the common way of depicting magic in western stories is king of immature. I see it like a facination for a completely utopian power and control, separating us from the natural environment. That's not always the case of course but i don't buy the moral justifications some stories could bring over this. That's why i don't feel the "magic" at all in Miyazaki's films. It feels more grounded, subtule, spiritual and blended into the natural laws
A single image of AI data seems so tone def. I was jarred at how much respect you where giving this film only to be thrown out. with how disrespectful AI art is in the face of Miyazaki's respect of art I would hope you could tell that just by the nature of AI data collection and creation. please think twice and remember your entire video is chalked full of his film footage in the first place.
ah yes collecting data and using that knowledge base to create new things, the thing that every human does its entire life, is disrespectful. miyazaki should apologize to nature for the disrespect when he drew it.
@@schmecklin377 Data has nothing but contempt for what it references. In the eyes of corporations artists are a cost, a cost that can be cut. the red target that was painted on the faces of artists wasn't painted because they want us so badly to use their tool. it wants to cut us out. it's not a tool that we are supposed to evolve with and learn to use. we are the tool. The tool for corporations to use up and dispose of. The scorn data has for " new" is unfathomable. It's not making new it's killing new. For you I would start by listening to something by Steven Zapata on the subject. Then maybe something by Karla Ortiz.
Great video about my favourite movie. But I cannot get over you using political pronouns to describe the forest spirit .. Normal language says "It walks", not "they walk". This not only made me confused to which they you were talking about, but it unnecessarily brings a political charge associated with divisive identity politics and restructuring of society and language to fit 0.01% of the population. This directly divided us, right here, just as I was enjoying your well written thoughtful content.
What impresses me the most is that Princess M. gives you a comprehensive picture of its mythology, while still providing plenty of negative space for your imagination on to wander and wonder.
Absolutely agred! And I think this is one of the triumphs of well written worldbuilding - you get a sizeable chunk of the world, and that's enough for you to PROJECT. You have an idea of everything you didn't get to learn, and it's always bigger than what you managed to comprehend.
Good stuff, right there :)
Princess Mononoke really is such a masterpiece and it's interesting what lessons we can all learn from the way Miyazaki constructed it. Nice job with this video!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video :)
Hey, can I ask you... is your username a Howl's Moving Castle reference?
@@JoriamRamos Haha nice catch -- It absolutely is a Howl's reference!
how is this video just getting on my radar!
you’re so right for this. that’s what i love about soft worldbuilding. that emotion of pure reverence is a result of every other little emotion leading up to it
it's beautiful step by step process right? :) we need small emotions to lead us to big ones
The works from Studio Ghibli greatly influence my writing as a TTRPG game master. Mainly the gentle way Miyazaki treats the world, even it's "darker" parts like death, which is perfectly shown in Princess Mononoke: The Shishigami bringing both life and death with every step and San healing her brothers but being covered in their blood are two of my favorite details about this movie.
Beautiful video!
The idea of a TTRPG that's as soft and spiritual as a Miyazaki movie is just pure gold to me! What system are you working with? :) (I'm no specialist, but I dabble)
@@JoriamRamos
I use D&D as a shell, to make it easier for my new players, and then I homebrew (and invent/break a lot of rules) a lot around it.
Though I am planning to try to search for/make a system specifically focused on this.
Massively underrated channel. Loved this movie
aww! thank you :)
Excelente análise. Me pegou de surpresa seu "e ae beleza" no final rssrsr
heheheeh a gente faz oq pode 😂
Everytime I listen to wind as it sweeps through the leaves of a tree,
making this wonderful rustling sound and
everytime I watch, as the wind sweeps through the leaves of a tree
making them dance in trance,
The way they shake,
ever since I watched Mononoke, I think of Myasakis depiction of the Kodama.
Hey, this is super cool! Do you know where I can find the full quote? I'd be keen to read that!
@@JoriamRamos I actually made that up, the moment I wrote that comment! :)
"Freeloaders" 😂
You just earned a sub my friend! Cant wait to watch the rest of your videos
Aw, thank you! Welcome to the channel :) and hope to see you around
This is a very very good video! The one suggestion I would make is maybe make it a bit loud or speak closer to the mic? I had to boost my volume a lot more from other videos and I still had trouble hearing some things. You have a lot of good observations here, keep it up!
Really? oh! That's surprising! I generally test my volume levels against other similar channels
I'll pay more attention to it! Thank you for the feedback :)
Haha "Bear" witness I get it.
THANK YOU 😂 though I wish the expression was 'boar witness' in this particular case
Have you watched Masayuki Miyaji's adaptation of The Deer King? The magic system in that has a certain Miyazaki feel to it, but they also try to have a science based explanation for a lot of the other mystical happenings. Kind of a fun mixture of realism and fantasy.
No, haven't heard of this one! Thanks for the rec :)
What an incredible gift it was to find this video. Thank you.
10k views, an incredibly in-depth take on the magic of Princess Mononoke, and ONLY 650 LIKES??? unacceptable. Subscribed, good sir.
Thank you! Growing is hard, but I'm ON IT!
Haha love the video man. Glad you said where you were from at the end I didn’t recognize the accent! Cheers from New Jersey
Thank you :) glad you enjoyed it!
And a tropical hug for ya hehe
Really cool ideas from this. I’ll have to check out some of his movies for sure. Keep up the writing and awesome videos❤
thank you for the kind words :)
Thank you for the video, it was very interesting and touching ! I know its a detail but i recognized one of Breath of the wild songs during the video, and i often think how playing this game feels like being in a miyazaki film, especially mononoke hime !
The way you describe it reminds me of a scene from Dan Simmons's Hyperion. The first encounter with the Shrike. There are many similarities to Miyazaki in terms of narrative tools. Instead of Kodama, Simmons uses the primitive Bikura people. The first time we "see" the Shrike is from far away. It is giant. It's shape is generally familiar but uncanny and weird at the same time. Wicked. And hell, as a reader you have no idea what is going on... But still, you are hooked.
At least I was. Gripping the book, flipping the pages, reading and catching my breath as if it was me who looked into the eyes of the monster.
So yeah, emotions lvl master ;)
The main difference between Princess Mononoke and Hyperion is though that the latter uses fear, not wonder. You still deal with the unknown, but boy... You wish you didn't know ;)
Great vid as always! Thanks for the analysis!
Eita! Um camarada Brasileiro. Que surpresa maravilhosa!
Estou cativado por seus vídeos, vem sendo uma inspiração para mim no meu processo de criar uma campanha de RPG, humildemente espero conseguir passar um pouco desse encanto, reverência e estranheza durante minha narração do jogo.
Cara, que maneiro! Quanto eu penso em RPG, em geral eu penso numa coisa mais D&D, mais focada em combate, sabe?
Se você conseguir trazer esse encantamento mais suave pra mesa, acho que você vai impressionar muita gente :) eu sei que eu me impressionaria!
I have always found it interesting how the spell (the acceptance of the forest) led to Ashitaka also becoming a bridge character.
i think you’ll REALLY like children of the sea
The most magical amazing movie.. definitely a world I want to live in..
I got to see this movie theaters about a week ago, and it was amazing to see it in 4K
gosh! I wish I could do that too!!
@@JoriamRamos im not sure about your area but in mine a group called GKIDS does special movie events. They do ghibli as well as other movies like coraline
Thank you!
Very nice video, thank you
You're very welcome :) hope to see you around the channel
I was not ready for the "É aí, beleza?" in the end 🇧🇷
vídeo incrível cara parabéns por captar e transmitir tanta coisa
eu tava bem ansioso com umas questões pessoais aqui não conseguindo tirar minha cabeça dos problemas quando encontrei esse video. amo demais princesa mononoke, tenho vários kodamas tatuados pelo corpo, e ouvir você falando de forma tão "sublime" sobre essa história relaxou meu coraçãozinho de uma forma que você não faz ideia.
mt obrigado por esse video tão gostoso de se assistir :')
Que bom ler isso, Gabriel! E eu sei exatamente qual eh esse sentimento que voce ta falando. Eh bem por esse sentimento que eu comecei a fazer videos pro youtube :) que bom que eu cheguei la!
@@JoriamRamos awnnnnnnnnnnnn
"E aí, beleza?"
Qual é? 😅
E eu jurando que era gringo!
Análise perfeita!
The stereotype of Brazilians being rather expressive seems to have some basis in reality
what can I say? I'm a cliche 😂
great video, how do you passed the Copyright ? from the scenes showed
hello and great video! i am intrigued by your process of transcribing these films to text, and would love to read your transcription of mononoke if you would share it :)
Heyo :) and thank you!
I have a couple of videos with transcriptions and breakdowns - and fortunately one of them is about Mononoke! Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/76pcdVr3oSQ/v-deo.html
Hope you like it!
Do you think the "NotDeer" is inspired by the deer God in this movie? The "NotDeer" has forward facing eyes and all prey species have side eyes, making it uncanny
Silly little creepy guys
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Oooh the Adobe Firefly image is really cool
Hey, thanks for saying that! I'm still on the fence about this whole thing (more context in the description), but perhaps that's a way forward that doesn't rely on the Midjourneys and Dall-Es :)
I feel like the common way of depicting magic in western stories is king of immature. I see it like a facination for a completely utopian power and control, separating us from the natural environment. That's not always the case of course but i don't buy the moral justifications some stories could bring over this. That's why i don't feel the "magic" at all in Miyazaki's films. It feels more grounded, subtule, spiritual and blended into the natural laws
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too much talking too much water
was going well but I'm not watching a video made by someone using ai generator
A single image of AI data seems so tone def. I was jarred at how much respect you where giving this film only to be thrown out. with how disrespectful AI art is in the face of Miyazaki's respect of art I would hope you could tell that just by the nature of AI data collection and creation. please think twice and remember your entire video is chalked full of his film footage in the first place.
ah yes collecting data and using that knowledge base to create new things, the thing that every human does its entire life, is disrespectful. miyazaki should apologize to nature for the disrespect when he drew it.
@@schmecklin377 Data has nothing but contempt for what it references. In the eyes of corporations artists are a cost, a cost that can be cut. the red target that was painted on the faces of artists wasn't painted because they want us so badly to use their tool. it wants to cut us out. it's not a tool that we are supposed to evolve with and learn to use. we are the tool. The tool for corporations to use up and dispose of. The scorn data has for " new" is unfathomable. It's not making new it's killing new. For you I would start by listening to something by Steven Zapata on the subject. Then maybe something by Karla Ortiz.
Great video about my favourite movie. But I cannot get over you using political pronouns to describe the forest spirit .. Normal language says "It walks", not "they walk". This not only made me confused to which they you were talking about, but it unnecessarily brings a political charge associated with divisive identity politics and restructuring of society and language to fit 0.01% of the population. This directly divided us, right here, just as I was enjoying your well written thoughtful content.