the title of the thread is "Studio Ghibli's Greatest Masterpiece" it's not splitting anything

I'm not the only one (even in this thread) that sees Miyazaki as Studio Ghibli incarnate having Nausicca on the list. Unless you enjoy bitching at people for parsing where the hell he produced the movie. Do you work for Top or just like wanting to sound right all the time? Geez..

the title of the thread is "Studio Ghibli's Greatest Masterpiece" it's not splitting anything

I'm not the only one (even in this thread) that sees Miyazaki as Studio Ghibli incarnate having Nausicca on the list. Unless you enjoy bitching at people for parsing where the hell he produced the movie. Do you work for Top or just like wanting to sound right all the time? Geez..

no i didn't work on it. it's only fair to credit the right company that animated it.

Grave of the Fireflies is nice. But only a one time watch for me. My heart can't take watching it more than once. Haven't watched "Only Yesterday". Ponyo was good visual wise, and had potential to be amazing. But the story went no where. Absolutely no where.

I am the same in regards to Grave of the Fireflies.
Incredibly powerful piece of cinema, but I could not see myself watching it again.

The Cat....Returns? Cat in the hat? lol I never heard of that movie from them. And YESSSSS! I hate the newer movies they've been putting out. Not 'hate' but they have been really average. I haven't seen the Secret World of Spaghettii or whatever it's called...Arrietti? I dunno lol I just found out about it like a few months ago when I saw a commercial. Not really pushing people out of the line to see it.

I thought Grave of the Firefly was made very well, but it was the most sad and depressing little movie ever. I cried my eyes out. If you want too watch something extremly sad watch Grave of the Fireflys.

Spirited Away was the begining of my watching of films by Hayao Miyazaki that were produced my Studio Ghibli. All the films that I have seen so far are all my favorites. They are so imaginative and very well written and animated. You easly can feel the story and get sucked in. I love them.

Disney is also part of studio Ghibli now I heard??? Ghibli blows some of my childhood films out the water.

I'm not the only one (even in this thread) that sees Miyazaki as Studio Ghibli incarnate having Nausicca on the list. Unless you enjoy bitching at people for parsing where the hell he produced the movie. Do you work for Top or just like wanting to sound right all the time? Geez..

Well, I don't think it's so straightforward that you can equate Miyazaki with Studio Ghibli, since Miyazaki had a pretty long career before Studio Ghibli was formed, having worked in animation for about 20 years at various studios like Toei, Mushi Production (Osamu Tezuka's animation studio), A Pro, Nippon Animation, and TMS Entertainment, before starting work on the Nausicaa film. Most people, for example, wouldn't consider "Future Boy Conan" or "Castle of Cagliostro" as Ghibli works, even though Miyazaki directed both.

That said, Nausicaa is usually included among Studio Ghibli's earliest works, because even though it was technically produced by Topcraft, it was the movie that basically founded Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki had been approached by Tokuma Shoten to make the adaptation of his manga, and after the film was successful, basically the staff that worked on Nausicaa at Topcraft (which was either bought out by Tokuma Shoten/Hayao Miyazaki/Isao Takahata and renamed to Studio Ghibli, or simply went out of business around the same time) became a part of Studio Ghibli, so basically it was the same animators and artists from Topcraft that went on to work on Laputa. Nowadays Studio Ghibli includes Nausicaa in its DVD collections and part of its library of works, so it's generally okay to call it a Studio Ghibli film (you'll see the Ghibli logo on both the U.S. and Japanese DVD covers).