Seen it, and it wasn't disappointingit was rather EXCELLENT.

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2008)

Hayao Miyazaki's project never failed my excitement. He is totally different in the conventional art of 2d animation filled with so much story and detail. Though simple, it's packed with innovativeness and imagination. No wonder he deserves recognition and glory for his works. Mononoke-hime certainly warrants being included in top 250 of this site. The animated film, tells another enchanting story of forest gods co-existing with humans, and their conflicts with each other rising and remained unsettled. The main character in the name of Ashitaka (Yoji Matsuda), the boy residing in a village, who serves as a scout to watch for his village became the starting point of the story. Later the plot progresses into something complicated but nevertheless understandable in long run. I would admit that I'm being led to the idea that San (Yuriko Ishida) appears to be the antagonist, but revelations poured gradually all throughout the film.
What's good about Hayao Miyazaki's project for Mononoke-hime as a successful animated film was he's unfailing creativeness and focus on the detail of the entire atmosphere of his story. The characters; both protagonist and antagonists, supporting characters, extra characters, the tree, the grasses, the sky, rocks, both living and non-living thing are given detail that doesn't only make their presence in the film subtle but significant and typical in their respective character. Unlike other frequent animations that only concentrate within the central characters moving and chatting and whatever they are doing. In this movie however, Miyazaki once again preserve the beauty of his work. What more I loved about this film is that it is not only filled with action, revelations, fantasy and creativeness, but along this primary qualities of a good film Hayao never fails to incorporate values and virtues on his stories. No matter how unbelievably unconvincing the nature of the film, he manage to create a system of the story on how characters reacts, acts and plays throughout. This deserves a perfect ten again.