Spirited Away (2001)
10/10
The very best of anime from Studio Ghibli.
1 September 2023
Well, now that I have to review one of the films that are from Studio Ghibli and all I can really say is they can do no wrong. Those films from Studio Ghibli are being highly praised. I can only think that one of my friends haven't even seen one of them, well, apart from one who has seen one of them which I'm going to do now and that is Spirited Away. Yes, Spirited Away is one of those movies that's got gigantic praise from many people in the world. Massively high in fact that it has been on the list of best films and animated films like Spider-Man: Into and Across the Spider-Verse, Akira, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Lion King, the Toy Story franchise, Shrek, The Iron Giant and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. And then we have many more films from Studio Ghibli like Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro and many more just to name a few. Chihiro Ogino and her parents are off to move to a new neighborhood, along the way they enter the world of kami (spirits of Japanese Shinto folklore). Chihiro discovers that her parents have been turned into pigs and now it's up to her find a way turn them back into human. She then meets with a boy named Haku voiced by Jason Marsden, leading her towards the bathhouse where several animals and creatures visiting there along with a masked spirit called No-Face. He instructs Chihiro to ask for a job from Kamaji, She tries to help but inadvertently causes some disruption, Yubaba, the witch who runs the bathhouse, gives Chihiro a working contract and renames her Sen. What really made me curious is that it's that simple, It's highly rated even by it's standards. It ages really, really well. What can I say that hasn't been said about Spirited Away? Well, honestly, nothing. Apart from saying that this is Alice in Wonderland in Japan but instead of being in Wonderland, she's in the Spirit World with many animal characters. All I can say is that fans of animation and anime, this must be seen to be believe. It has great characters, beautiful animation and a powerful story where the imaginative world that you'd never expect. This movie is so special that it definitely earns a lot more recognition from newcomers who are curious, interested or intrigued to seeing this. I'm sure a lot of those people who are not fans of anime, all I can say is if you're interested in doing so by simply watching Spirited Away and many others from Studio Ghibli, they're absolutely a must-watch if you really have your own account from many movie websites even you seen many lists of highly rated movies you've seen and haven't seen, you'll be interested in so and you'll be this movie on the list and you cannot avoid it like the others. Like many animation I've seen many years ago, Spirited Away will never get out of many people's minds by how dark and beautiful it really is and like how I animation so much, this movie is truly one of the greatest animated films of all time and it definitely is one of everybody's best, Studio Ghibli's best and animation's best.
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