Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Just got the new GKids Blu-Ray of this (all the new Ghibli GKids Blu-Rays are selling for great prices on Amazon, by the way). Looks and sounds amazing, and it’s wonderful to be able to watch it in Japanese without dubtitles for once!

Definitely one of my favorites of Miyazaki’s. The world is so well-realized, there’s just the right mix of cute (the fox-squirrel!) and creepy (the Ohms). Oddly, watching this again has made me really wish for an animated Dune adaptation…

9 ridiculously bushy mustaches out of 10

Now I’ve got to get one of my other favorites, Castle in the Sky - the new GKids release has a third audio option that’s the English dub with the original electronic music (though sadly in lossy DD instead of DTS-HD), so that’ll be nice to have.