Ghibli Movies Are Overrated 

Hayao Miyazaki while watching this video: They are not adult yet

Miyazaki has retired more times than a professional wrestler.

"This doesn't feel anime" is the worst excuse to not like something ever.

"Ghibli is too much like Disney." Yeah, Grave of the Fireflies absolutely screams Disney to me.

Regardless of the movies themselves, all the soundtracks made by Joe Hisaishi are masterpieces and no one can tell me otherwise.

The way they forgot spirited away for whole time is so funny.

"Ghibli movies don't feel like anime" This is what happens when you become a weaboo.

The reason why I love the Ghibli movies is that the kids and teenagers act and look like people their age should. I’m sick of the oversexualized characters pretty much every anime nowadays have

A kids movie doesn’t need “adult humor” to be enjoyed by adults. I hate when people say that.

Now I get why this podcast is actually called "Trash Taste"

"Ghibli is too much like Disney" as if Disney are not responsible for some of the best animated movies ever made

"Ghibli is Disney " I knew from this point on I'm not gonna like this guy.

Calling Ghibli "Disney" is a sin

Castle in the Sky doesn’t get enough credit

This is one of the most generic, superficial and false shit i've ever heard about some art works

These podcasters should get tested for COVID, a lack of taste is a major symptom.

Ghibli movies are overrated - - - > 90% talk about Miyazaki

“How you have culture if you don’t watch studio ghibli”? - Uncle Roger

I love how they give no good reasons why they think Ghibli movies are bad, they just shit on Miyazaki and complain that the animation has too many frames in it.

"doesn't feel like anime" i mean, just cuz it's not in a high school setting with tits all over, doesn't mean it's not anime. It's just that Miyazaki has a different perspective on life, which feels much more real and pure. He's also very sensitive and seem to take emotions into a vacuum

Personally, I feel like Ghibli movie's aren't plot driven, but are rather more enjoyable as an experience. The plots are nothing spectacular, but when the story unfolds with the visuals and the amazing soundtracks, that feeling of magic and nostalgia is what makes ghibli movies special.

This Title: Ghibli Movies Are Overrated Some of the comments probably: Why do I hear blasphemy?

"doesn't feel like anime" - meaning - doesn't have wifus, crazy ridiculous action or the same tired usual anime tropes. Also, no, Ghibli is not even close to feel like a disney movie.

Everyone : - My Neighbour’s Totoro - Spirited Away - Howl’s Moving Castle - Princess Mononoke Me : - The Tale of Princess Kaguya :3

Though I do agree some Ghibli films can be overrated, I just can't bring myself to not think highly of Princess Mononoke and Kiki's Delivery service. I love them so much.

The reason behind Miyazaki crying over The Wind Rises specifically is the film being very personal to him. It's almost an autobiography, almost.

Somewhere a Japanese film professor is absolutely raging right now. Garnt's comment about how Ghibli is more Disney than anime is the whole point! Miyazaki never set out to create anime, in fact he was staunchly against it at the time and was a vocal criticizer of Osamu Tezuka who pioneered anime style as a way of cutting costs by reducing frames. Ghibli's animation technique is intentionally closer to Disney since Miyazaki worked at Toei animation before starting Ghibli, which was heavily inspired by Disney animation.

Anime isn’t a style, it is simply Japanese animation.

Pacing in Ghibli movies is weird, and sometimes the endings are not so good...but no one can disagree with the excellent world arts and a nostalgic storyline...that we wish we should have watched when we were ｓｍｏｌ.

whisper of the heart still hits different as an adult tho

You guys have no argument aside from "I was bored."

saying that Ghibli is like Disney is the worst take i have ever heard in my entire life. its one thing when you dont like it, but you have to be somewhat self-aware to understand that Miyazaki's work is just not for you and its not bad lol

Miyazaki salt intensifies...

As a young woman, I absolutely adore Miyazaki’s work for inspiring the woman I am today for all the female main characters he brought to life. Might not appeal to men but it’s truly legendary

I find his movies endearing. Never thought of them as overrated but I can see how people would find them to be overrated.

A summary of this episode could just be that Ghibli movies aren't overrated, these guys just don't like them.

The name of the podcast is really starting to make sense now

*Best Ghibli Films to me:* - Spirited Away - Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind - Grave of the Fireflies

Honestly, I didn't know that Miyazaki can be an ass but still, I respect him as a writer and director. I love his works and there's something that makes it so nostalgic and aesthetic. Especially how he evolve the characters till the end. He's one of the few writers who "nailed" the women empowerment in their movies. But yeah, I respect your opinion if you don't like it. Studio Ghibili movies that I really love: Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Grave of the Fireflies and The Wind Rises. Honorable Mention: Arriety, From Up on Poppy Hill and Kiki's Delivery Service.

I respect you three, but this is easily your Trashiest Taste ever 😂😂😂😂😂

“Miyazaki’s films aren’t ‘anime’ enough” “Miyazaki films are too much like Disney” “Miyazaki films are just for kids” Spirited Away alone is more mature than 90% anime you guys talk about or films that Disney puts out.

"This isn't anime, this is a fucking disney movie." How the hell did he come to that conclusion? It's literally anime. Not all anime has to follow the same format. If you think all anime has to be a certain way, you're pretty small minded XD

Watching movies from Studio Ghibli is like an art, it's meant to be watched carefully to show how detailed it is, the work was made with passion, and it tells the respective of how Miyazaki wanted to convey it in his work

It's truly amazing how you can analyse media for so many years and still understand so little of it

_"You're not just wrong, you're stupid as well."_ - Cat in the Hat Edit: K some of you guys are taking this comment way too seriously (the same way some of you take the trash taste bullshit drama way too seriously). In the same way a lot of the jokes and shit takes are lightheartedly stated in trash taste, this is as well. I like ghibli movies but im not a diehard miyazaki acolyte. For fucks sake...

Can we agree that Satoshi Kon is the best

As someone who grew up only watching films from Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks I have to say Ghibli is by far the best animation studio out there. I discovered it about 2 years ago at the age of 17 and it was mindboggling to me how much better movies can be even though they seem like they're made for children. Ghibli are just fantastic at making films that feel like an adventure you'd experience to then wake up and let it slide to edge of your mind like a beautiful dream. I accept that many low paced movies of theirs seem too boring and uninteresting to enjoy for some people, but they're definetely worth a watch regardless

Garnt: Ghibli movies are shit Then proceeds to watch his 315th isekai anime. I've unfortunately started to dislike anime. Alot are derivative and just shit all around.

i love these guys, but their taste is literally a 50/50 for me. I agree on some things 100% or disagree 100%. But all love, at the end of the day everyone has certain opinions

Regardless of your stance on Ghibli movies, you have to admire just how beautiful and rich the worlds are. I mean, even Dunkey likes Ghibli, and he hates anime.

Fast food vs Slow food. The problem stems from these guys binging tons of anime with their seasonal anime, consuming anime like fast food ( junk food) making them more impatient, insensitive to subtleness and detail but craving for more flashy/violent or sexual stimulation. Same phenomenon can be observed from excessive games and porn and fast (sweet) food, your endolphin and dopamin threshold gets much higher, resulting in feeling bored and impatient while doing very calm and subtle activities. (like watching Ghibli).

Oh boy. The only time where Trash Taste literally really meant the name about their take lol

Joey: **calls the wind rises mid** Garnt: **says he hates ghibli** Aight imma head out. They're living up to their name 'Trash Taste'

Gigguk watches ghibli and is just like “ sooooo wait are the two people falling in love brother and sister?? Not even cousins?? This isn’t real anime!

Everyone in the comments shitting on their take while I just sit here smiling that I now have allies in this hopeless war

No intellectual input, just based on judgements.

Tale of princess kaguya is pure art and magic.

I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that.

"Ghibli is too much like disney" Yea im also looking forward to the next sequel/reboot

Lmao this video really triggered miyazaki cult😂

"Anime was a mistake" -Kanye

Regarding Miyazaki going out from the cinema, i just read a comment that explain it. See this is taken out of context of the documentary itself to be frank. When the production of Earth Sea was green lit due to Ghibli getting the rights for adaption of the Earthsea novel, Goro wasn’t helming as director but another younger staff in the studio. It didn’t pan out and the production needed a director, so Suzuki, the producer of Ghibli put out the notion of Goro directing the film to Miyazaki. Which Miyazaki was fully against. Now his reasoning behind his opposition to Suzuki’s idea is more than valid and reasonable. First, Goro hasn’t even worked within the industry, he’s a civil engineer and landscape artist. Second, Goro becoming director is using Miyazaki’s name to bypass every rung of the production which paints this action to be highly fucked up industry wise and a big fuck you to people who are within the industry working their asses off to be even considered a directorial position. Third, Miyazaki was one of those grass roots type of person who worked throughout his youth to be in the position he is, and yes experience does matter in how you are able to direct due to knowing each level of the production pipeline. I mean take a fucking minute to put yourself in the shoes of people working in the industry, some no experience man comes walking into your field without prior experience and is put in a position above you just because his father is one of the industry big name. Really it wouldn’t sit well with anyone. At this point ghibli was a prime center of attention in Japan where you had media attention in you 24/7, parading the studio to even rival Disney as a studio. Suzuki probably thought this was a prime moment to helm an heir for Miyazaki, and roped in Goro for such position. During this time Ghibli has been having issues of raising their staff and finding a director that could replace Miyazaki, but there were many unfortunate incidents where young and talented directors passed away from health complications. Even through out the production of Earthsea, you see many problems that arise from Goro’s I experience of directing and managing a production and if you have seen the movie it’s very apparent. You see that there are scenes that resembles Miyazaki’s prior works in film and also his work for televisions. It was a hodgepodge, a scrap book of Miyazaki’s works, this is why he was apposed to Goro directing the film. Now you know Japanese males of Miyazaki’s generation are workaholics and extremely strict. That’s just how they were like, I’m sorry to be blunt but yeah they’re are fucking assholes and abusive and distant in today’s standards. The reason why Goro didn’t pursue the industry was that reason, he didn’t want to tread in his fathers footsteps. And Suzuki kind of screwed with both Miyazaki’s and Goro’s own decision. At the time, I honestly really didn’t like Suzuki’s actions and really gave me a bad impression of him. Though after the failure of this film, Goro and Miyazaki have worked together on Poppyhill and you can see that they had conflicts within the production but somehow managed to work together especially with the Touhoku earthquake of 311 impacting Japan as a whole. Goro did manage a television series as a director with Polygon Picture for Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter. Which was a joint with studio Ghibli and Polygon, but was majority done independent from studio Ghibli. He is actually taking the steps to learn and gain experience, but in my opinion... still fucked up to animators who dreams to become a director and you all know how shitty their work standards and pay is... so yeah... whole situation was fucked to begin with man... comment from dekalabia decrabia.

I'm like 20 minutes trying to understand why the "it's like Disney" argument. Why? I mean, the structure of the stories are different from Disney, the passing is different, there's no songs like Disney, there's no plot twist villains like Disney, there's so many things that make Disney movies different.

Joey 2020: The Wind Rises is a good movie but it was pretty mid when I watched it. Joey 2021: I've bever watched The Wind Rises so I can't rank it. Yup, alright lol

This podcast lives up to its name

The podcast lives up to its name

It’s been a year and a half and I still hate this take with a passion.

I disagree with their take but man this is already nearing two years ago and there's more than enough time for them to have changed their opinions and a lot of these comments straight up not only just disagree with them but directly hate them over it to the point that it's just unhinged lmao

Anyone here watched “When Marnie Was There”?

These must be some of the worst arguments I've ever heard. "This isn't anime" LOL anime IS japanese animation, what does that even mean. My only hope for them is that they're trolling.

These dudes are assholes accusing Miyazaki of being an asshole. The irony!

i just love how they all agree that not all ghibli movies are good but they all like and dislike different movies overlapping in their opinions much more enjoyable to hear than someone calling every single movie a masterpiece

I agree with them on everything about Miyazaki, but I still love his movies

I mean you guys are missing a lot of context with the whole Tales of EarthSea incident, as at the time Miyazaki was highly against having Goro direct the movie in the first place, given that at the time Goro had no directorial experience and had been a civil engineer and landscape designer. Putting Goro in charge seems like a move that happened because of the Miyazaki name, which I assume probably upset him. Goro also originally went into those things because he didn't want to follow in his father's footsteps originally. All in all what I'm trying to say is it seems like there was a lot more going on in the background there

I see why this show is called “Trash Taste”

This is the first time I think they’ve genuinely upset people, judging by these comments. Don’t mess with people’s childhood entertainment lol

"How could you say something so controversial yet so brave"?

I mean that lupin3rd castle of cagliostro is a movie i can never hate

No youre overrated. Those films are a dream!

Arguments: I was bored It's not anime It's like disney What?? 🤣

now THIS is a trash take that makes this podcast live up to its name !

Not gonna lie. When I hear people say Ponyo is mid I seriously question their judgement. Most underrated Ghibli film by far.

and this why I don't take Anitubers seriously.

Gaw-dam if my dad saw the comments on this shit he'd think he was back in the salt mines.

Oh my god I’ve been saying this for years. I get why people like Ghibli, but it is infuriating that people take Miyazaki’s words as a revelation from God and use it as an argument to say anime just suck. It’s like listening to a boomer saying rap isn’t music or something.

As an animator, I bow down to the Ghilbi Artists/team of artist that went under Miyazaki. I can bet they're underpaid and intoxicated but, the fruit is memorable and to be proud for. The music of Joe Hisaishi too is the ultimate touch with these handmade frames (earlier movies). So I can't just plainly say.. the movie is overrated because of the personality of the creator. Regardless, Miyazaki is too strict and movies are memorable :)

It’s funny watching so many people argue about Ghibli films. One side worships and the other loathes. It’s like experiencing modern American politics. Everyone refuses to find common ground on anything.

This whole video is weeb brain rot in a nutshell

"You should hydrate right now" - drink water

Ghibli movies are like Disney movies but way longer and you don't have the slightest idea what the plot is in the first 30 minutes. Also damn, this was the first time I heard about that movie incident. Just wow.

I've been thinking how to describe my feelings towards Ghibli movies as I am not eloquent or witty enough. The best I could think of is that if Ghibli movies are food, they would be something simple but hearty (and perhaps homecooked too). They're nothing elaborate or fancy or complicated dishes but will satisfy you regardless and will remain a favorite no matter how many other great dishes you've tasted.

"they just don't feel anime," is the most title affirming take they have made to date on this show lol. How do you state what is good Ghibli, and not mention grave of the fireflies?

I’m reminded of the time that Miyazaki was doing an interview alongside Hideaki Anno. Of course Miyazaki decides he wants a smoke during the interview, and you can clearly see both the smoke trail from the cigarette and the smoke Miyazaki blows out going into Anno’s face. And of course Miyazaki did not give a single shit.

Have to disagree

Before you get mad, he said they were overrated, not that they are bad.

you made a lot of enemies with this video.

dang no one talks about the secret world of arrietty

I recently watched Totoro and cried my eyes out. I'm 18 go on judge me....

Just because I enjoy them doesn't mean you have to... I like that people aren't scared to share controversial opinions... Also the wind rises is my favorite movie! it makes me cry

Lmao love how angry everyone in the comments are. What happened to “everyone is allowed to have an opinion”