Amazing animation

Rating: 9/10 (21 April 1999)

The art in this movie is like none I've ever seen in an anime before. The first time I saw it, I saw it in Japanese without someone to translate, and the art kept my attention. The colors are amazing, but even more amazing is the attention to detail. It is not too often that background animations are done, and even less often complex background animation. And I've never seen many workers all completely animated in full detail in the background for a few minutes like I did in this movie. This was the amazing part to me. Perhaps Miyazake's best film so far, it definitely lives up to his name. Not only is the art amazing, but the plot is as good as mythical creature plots come. An anime worth seeing not just by anime fans alone. I just hope Disney doesn't screw it up in its American release.