I can't say I grew up on Ghibli.. didn't see my first ghibli movie till I was about.. 10? and nothing after that either until I was 14-15 when I got into anime.

My mom recorded some ghibli movies and disney movies on vhs in Chinese. So i grew up on those lol. XD;;

The animated movies, Old Yeller, and the Davey Crockett movies are the extent of my Disney exposure, until a neighbor lent me their Kiki's Delivery Service VHS.


My mom never could use the VHS player, so she just bought stuff like Robin Hood, Lion King, anything with a disney princess.. and I'd be the one to work the player. o3o

She always said I was a genius for being able to work those things at the age of 2... o3o, like not that difficult.. pop in the tape and push play.

Yeah i had kiki and totoro on vhs i think, and i think nausicaa? And grave of the fireflies. I also had chinese versions of snow white, cinderella, little mermaid and sleeping beauty i think. So most of the main princess ones. XD;;

Once I got into anime, I had Kiki, Nausicaa, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke on VHS

DVD's came out, and I gotten Howl's Moving Castle and the Cat returns..

Landlady threw a fit about us having too much stuff, and even pointed to mom's cassette tapes and my VHS tapes and bitched about how we don't use those anymore, so I tossed them all out in anger.. poor people can't have stuff after all...

So I rebought all the ghibli movies I previously owned on bluray + Whispers of the Heart and Totoro.. Also rebought Howl's Moving Castle... because I wore out the DVD >w>, hehe

yup, i've watched all of those. mostly in chinese although i did start watching them in japanese with english subtitles at one point. still, i like listening to it in chinese because i can understand it just by listening to it. xD

They're beautiful movies.

I once made San's wolf hood/mask thing (Princess Mononoke) for halloween.. got accused for being KKK =3=

Lol wtfffff why would people think that? XD;;
Gotta watch more ghibli and be “cultured” lol. XD

Anime wasn't mainstream back then so they never heard of the movie... and all they saw was the white fluffy top (AND EARS!) and missed the red face part (which I made with cloth and nailpolish since I didn't have clay)

Lol i see. Well everyone should know what ghibli isssss…we should infect the world with ghibliiii~