Wrote off anime movie night at my buddy's place, ended up staying 4 hours

Last Saturday my friend Dave kept pushing this Ghibli marathon thing he does every month. I always figured it was just for hardcore fans or people who never grew up. He put on Spirited Away and I sat there ready to be bored, but the animation drew me in quick. Three movies later I was asking him where to start with the series. Has anyone else gone into one of these completely cold and got hooked?

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alice_reed473mo ago

Honestly I gotta disagree with this whole thing... anime just feels like something people outgrow, you know? I tried watching Spirited Away a few years back because everyone said it was a masterpiece and I kept waiting for something to actually happen. The artwork is fine I guess but sitting through 4 hours of that stuff sounds like torture to me. There's so many good live action movies out there that actually tell a story without all the weird fantasy stuff. I really don't get the appeal of grown adults getting that into cartoons.

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hugo503mo ago

Wait, did you notice how Alice said anime is for people who never grew up but then said Spirited Away didn't have a real story? That movie is literally about a girl having to grow up fast and save her parents from being turned into pigs, sounds like a pretty grown up lesson to me.

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