Steve Reviews: Princess Mononoke
Steve Reviews: Princess Mononoke
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It’s been a while since I last reviewed a Ghibli film, but from my Spirited Away review I asked which one you guys would like to see next, and a lot voted for Princess Mononoke. And yeah, I can see why!
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October 31, 2022 @ 6:58 am
I love the way he says Ashitaka’s name
October 31, 2022 @ 6:59 am
I def did question the sudden love plot between them but at this point I am used to movies/shows auto making boys and girls as romance interest lol. But in the end, still a great movie! But I do still adore Spirited Away more 😀
October 31, 2022 @ 7:00 am
This is my all time favorite anime. My first to be honest. Good review.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:00 am
My favourite movie of all times.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:01 am
His name is pronounced Ah-she-talk-a. Princess Mononoke actually has a name a name, it’s San.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:01 am
It won’t let me like your videos
October 31, 2022 @ 7:02 am
You should come back through and replace every atikashi with his actual name ashitaka
October 31, 2022 @ 7:02 am
Seen a few ghibli films, castle in the sky was my favorite…then i watched this with my girl last night, i havnt been glued to a screen like that in a LOOONG TIME
October 31, 2022 @ 7:04 am
In the opining the wise woman says „it will give you great pain and it will kill you“. And Lateran „from now on you are dead to us.“ if that’s not a tragic way to start a movie. Also his fiancé… it’s heartbreaking.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:04 am
I watched Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke on a Cartoon Network special and up until then the only anime I was familiar with were shows like Digimon and Pokémon. I became a lot more interested in tue anime world when I saw those two features.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:06 am
Shes better as not being the enfocer between peace and humans in my opinion. While on the wolf side she becomes now a product of the hate between the humans and the forest between something that is both ugly and beautiful at the same time. Having both the good and bad residing within her from both parties. While most often in the show the byproduct of this hate is shown in the embodiment of the demons which is great by having something more grounded like princess Mononoke hits alot closer to home then lets say demonic boar charging through a forest.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:08 am
This is in my top 3 movies of all time.
Saw it when I was about 7 and it changed my fucking life.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:09 am
I remember watching this as a kid…i was traumatised for days
October 31, 2022 @ 7:11 am
1:30 actual start of the video.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:11 am
I liked the romantic aspect of the story but I guess that’s just because I like romantic stories in general. The scene where he called her beautiful kinda stuck out to me too, because of her reaction. Never in my life have I seen a girl so horrified of being paid a compliment!
October 31, 2022 @ 7:11 am
Ah. Shi. Tak. Ka.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:12 am
my parents didnt know anime existed. they rented this, 6yr old me and my sisters were scared and left alone.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:13 am
Personal my fav studio ghibli film was "spirited away" but after finishing princess mononoke I really like this one the most it feels so human and real to watch which is awesome since mythology within the films teaches so many lessons it was cool
October 31, 2022 @ 7:14 am
Almost everyone credits spirited away as Ghiblis best work but this one will always be my favorite
October 31, 2022 @ 7:15 am
I watched this as a kid. And i actually remember enjoying it, even if it was scary. The monsters were more intruiging than anything
October 31, 2022 @ 7:18 am
Steve your beautiful…
There i said
October 31, 2022 @ 7:19 am
“I’d definitely recommend to check it out”
*gargle of pure agony in the background*
October 31, 2022 @ 7:21 am
Will you also review the wind rises
October 31, 2022 @ 7:21 am
wow don’t know what you talking about
October 31, 2022 @ 7:22 am
I don’t believe you. Kanye has taped two of his stem players in his ears
October 31, 2022 @ 7:22 am
I absolutely LOVED theTeam Four Star moment with Nappa in this video!!!!!!!
October 31, 2022 @ 7:24 am
The movie that inspired Breath of the wild
And now breath of the wild 2
October 31, 2022 @ 7:24 am
OK, This is kinda old now, but I have to mention a couple things:
1) Miyazaki doesn’t really ‘write’ his movies. He has an idea for them, he gets some ideas and starts storyboarding, and then they start making the movie once they’ve got enough solid scenes to work with. The story is still being hammered out long after the film is being animated. It’s why there are things that sometimes just kinda get dropped, or why they’ll just introduce some weird new element halfway through the movie. They have a general concept of a movie, but they don’t have all the details worked out until the thing is getting made.
2) You mention that Miyazaki is a workaholic, and while that’s very common in Japan, he’s one of the worst slave-drivers in the industry. He’s legendary, but he’s a raging cunt of a director. He demands perfection, the animators are made to basically live at the studio 24 hours a day, etc. I mean, it’s not necessarily a terrible experience, as they treat it like familial relationship where they take turns cooking food, doing cleaning chores, going shopping for the things they all need, etc, but the guy is a real hard-ass and demands perfection from his artists. There was a woman who was moving on from animation and was going to move into the country and settle down with her family and maybe do some personal art projects and stuff, so she was leaving the studio toward the end of production on either this film or Spirited Away. I forget the exact story, but basically they wanted to give her a memento of her time there, so they drew her a picture of Ghibli characters or something, or they took one of her production drawings… and they all signed it. They gave it to Miyazaki to sign it, but he also included correction notes for the drawing. I want to say that it was one of her own drawings they used. She said it was the perfect memento of working at Ghibli.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:26 am
i remember watching this movie and it scared the kaka out of mi
October 31, 2022 @ 7:30 am
This isn’t a review as much as a first impression or something.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:31 am
problem with Raycons, my work shift is 8 hours so…
October 31, 2022 @ 7:32 am
I think Ashitaka and SAN’s relationship as what movie quotes “seeing eyes un clouded” like has been said because of being raised by wolves people saw her as an animal and animals fighting human saw her as a beast. Ashitaka was only one who saw her “humanity and beauty” and though she had hatred was the only human voice for the forest’s defense. Ashitaka saw who she was and even she still can’t live with human she still sees beauty and humanity through Ashitaka.
And I feel like Ashitaka’s curse was able to let him see each side. While hatred would not kill them automatically it would for him. Because he could hold it back and see things “with eye unclouded and the able to turning the head understanding pain everyone would go through.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:32 am
Ashitaka saved Princess Mononoke ONLY because she’s beautiful. If PM were ugly or even doesnt exist then this whole story wouldn’t happened at all lol.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:33 am
I just realized that San is identical to Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:35 am
Remember IT is not her name. The title should be Princess of Mononoke
October 31, 2022 @ 7:37 am
Idky nobody recognizes that, for as understandable as the actions of the humans, their actions will quite literally lead to the death of nature and humans (who are a part of nature) alongside it. What’s ambiguous isn’t whether the actions of the humans are right, they aren’t; the ambiguity is how to solve the problems plaguing both the forest and the human society.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:39 am
I don’t really like this movie, it feels kind of empty to me. Ashitaka and the princess are plane characters, any commentary about the relationship between nature and humans feels confusing considering all the fantasy elements of the story and… I don’t know, I failed to connect with the characters in general and whatever the story was trying to say.
Even so, Kodamas are my favorite thing in this movie. That and the part when one of the wolves bites Ashitaka’s head, that’s high quality humor right there.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:39 am
one of my favorite movies is tales from earthsea, idk why but I love it a lot
October 31, 2022 @ 7:40 am
i know this video is 2 years old but if you haven’t done it you should watch tale of Earthsea
October 31, 2022 @ 7:43 am
Anime is weird. In a good way
October 31, 2022 @ 7:44 am
Maybe review all resident evil movies?
October 31, 2022 @ 7:45 am
I beleive Breath of the Wilf from Nintendo took the Giant boar god fight with the hate in it, and made a literal go of it as Ganon’s HUGE form as th efinal boss, with Link on horseback
October 31, 2022 @ 7:45 am
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October 31, 2022 @ 7:45 am
Avatars is not about human bad nature good it’s about colonialism hahah
October 31, 2022 @ 7:49 am
Ah-shi-ta-ka 🤦🏼♂️
October 31, 2022 @ 7:51 am
They don’t want a respectable female protagonist. It’s either a male protagonist, or a hypersexualized female protagonist. Can’t believe people still haven’t seen this yet.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:52 am
Sorry how did you pronounce Ashitaka
October 31, 2022 @ 7:56 am
One major complaint with your review: you said that you’d prefer it if Princess Mononoke was the mid point even though her story sides her with the animals solidly. Just because by birth she’s a human doesn’t mean she’ll side with them by any means.
October 31, 2022 @ 7:56 am
Come on man. It’s Ah-Shi-Tah-Ka! You’re killing me here!
October 31, 2022 @ 7:56 am
Atakashi- JAJAJA