Is Ashitaka just being absolutely fucking based the main reason why Mononoke is the best Ghibli film?

Is Ashitaka just being absolutely fucking based the main reason why Mononoke is the best Ghibli film?

I don't really watch Japanese animation, but studio glabby produces beautiful works. I think princess monorkey was the main reason this film successes. Ashitita was a boring character

Yes.

Miyazaki's best films have a strong male lead/sidekick.

>Howl
>Ashitaka
>Porco Rosso

All of these are great, because the females and the male protagonists compliment each other.

Its great writing. Thats why Ponyo falls flat in my opinion and why Nausicaa is not that great.

i think it's also because there are no good/bad characters
wish more films took this approach

I like how you forgot lupin, that's his best film, and he didn't even create the character

I guess so, but I dont think of Lupin as a Miyazaki film. Its more like an episode of Lupin's adventures.

movie is so comfy

But it has his signature animation, mainly why it's so fun to watch

THIS

I like Porco Rosso the best, but that's because Indiana Jones gave me an interwar adventure fetish. And I fucking love prop planes,

Ashitaka was based and San was prime waifu material. That's why the film is so great.

Did it ever explain why the virus gave him supernatural powers?

It was a curse, actually. I think the idea is that the curse is making his body stronger but will eventually make him a mindless beast like the boar at the beginning.

>Nausicaa is not that great.

The manga is god tier.

>Its great writing. Thats why Ponyo falls flat in my opinion and why Nausicaa is not that great.

Nausicaa didn't have enough of the real main character.

This scene, man.

Ashitaka was useless. All he does is run around telling everyone to stop fighting while offering zero fucking solutions.

I liked it because it was a whole lot less heavy-handed Nausicaa message - progress is inevitable, shit happens. There is no magical "we can live with nature" solution here.

one of the greatest things about this movie is that he and San are more like animals of a rare species who've finally found each other.

I love that whole scene where San chews food for Ashitaka. It moves me.

>"I was prepared the moment I let my arrow fly."

Goddamn. That and the cursed scene where he saves San from Eboshi and the Iron Town.

>"Stand aside."

>studio ghibli
>DUDE STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS THE ENVIRONMENT FLUID REALISTIC ANIMATION JAPANESE FOLKLORE THE TENSION BETWEEN INDEPENDENCE AND WHIMSY CREATED DURING ADOLESCENCE AND AIRPLANES LMAO

>Howl's Convoluted Castle
>best

He's a charming protagonist but nothing can save that atrocious and pointless story