Hey, everybody.

Hey, everybody, it's your imperialist, uh, Iron Town bruiser, Holden McNeely, who wants to, you know,

cut down the forests and, uh, really build up my own civilization. Yeah, that's what I am, see?

And I am your forest spirit wizard. Kill him! Oh, I just want to give you kisses.

Lop, lop off his stupid head and let's build a big old fortress for us.

Civilians who are prostitutes and lepers.

I'll kill you, but I'll be real nice about it.

It's very fucked up.

Look at my person face.

That's right. Today we're doing our episode on princess monaoke i feel like actually that's not a that's right statement we got real weird real fast with that opening that was a weird

opening but it is a weird it's it's a strange and wonderful film absolutely uh delight i'm so glad

we're doing this episode um there were a few to choose from. I really do want to do Grave of the Fireflies soon, too, which I didn't even realize. Wasn't it being made at the same time as this? Or was it a different movie? No, no, no, no. It was being made at the same time as another, like, epic, amazing movie. It was spirited away no no no it was a um it was a double

feature with toder oh that's what it was which was super fucked up if you consider what happens in both

those movies a hundred percent yeah oh my god um so yeah but but this really is um quite possibly

miazaki's greatest masterpiece i'm sure you could argue for other films, but I really do.

I'll argue that you're wrong if you do.

Yeah, you feel that this is his greatest work, his masterwork.

I feel like, yeah, this really is truly amazing.

Spirited away, I know has more lavish animation.

Yeah.

But it also has this level of kind of dream logic to it.

And as a movie.

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