Princess Mononoke
the world is cursed. people are cursed. but still, we wish to live.
my second(!!!!) time in theaters and it literally never fails to make me feel like a kid again in the best way possible. 462
i can confidently say this is my favorite animated movie of all time, and probably the movie that encapsulates my childhood the very best. something i noticed on this watch (unironically probably the 80th or 90th watch of my lifetime) is how the great spirit of the forest/the deities/the ‘nightwalker’ parallel a lot of the mythology i was exposed to from my family on the reservation; shapeshifters (aka a different s word i will not utter) in particular. this movie is truly fucking timeless and will always be one of the first movies i really loved with my entire body. 462