fucking relatable master yupa

風の谷のナウシカ (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind), 1984

天空の城ラピュタ (Castle in the Sky), 1986

となりのトトロ (My Neighbor Totoro), 1988

千と千尋の神隠し (Spirited Away), 2001

ハウルの動く城 (Howl's Moving Castle), 2004

崖の上のポニョ (Ponyo), 2008

風立ちぬ (The Wind Rises), 2013

君たちはどう生きるか (The Boy and the Heron), 2023

Ghibli x Zelda collection, available for print!

Moment of truth...

Keep in mind: I ONLY included the films in which (according to Wikipedia), Miyazaki was the SOLE director. The only one I couldn't squeeze on here was his latest work post-retirement (How Do You Live?). Also, alas, none of the other Ghibli films count, so don't ask for Arietty, or Grave of the Fireflies, etc.

Godspeed and happy voting! ❤

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 風の谷のナウシカ (1984) dir. hayao miyazaki

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Julia Tveritina

Studio Ghibli Posters by Bill Mudron

Studio Ghibli movies are so peaceful, I want to live in a world like that, I wanna bake, I wanna run through the woods, I wanna run through the meadows, I wanna meet magical people, I wanna have adventures, and I wanna live in a fantasy world

Ursula K. Le Guin once said that “[t]o use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.” Crucially, Nausicaä imagines a new way of being in the world by radically reframing our relation to it and our understanding of it. Instead of a desert, the inhospitable environment in Nausicaä is known as the Sea of Decay. But far from a dying and deadened milieu, the Sea of Decay is in fact brimming with life. This is hardly ironic but for a dominant binary and linear ontology around life and death. The living and the dead are not fixed in a binary but bound together in an intimate, dynamic, circling dance. Decay and regeneration are two sides of the same coin. Reflecting on when he moved to the Yanase River, Miyazaki recalls, “The river was more like a polluted ditch, filled with leeches and midge larvae. I was amazed by how noble these midges were and impressed that they would live in such a place.” The Sea of Decay, teeming with life, is arguably the site of some of the most luxuriant and resplendent imagery in all of Miyazaki’s films.

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢 𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐬 ♥︎

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ‘風の谷のナウシカ’ 1984, dir. Hayao Miyazaki