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Skipping the ones I did not mark 10/10 with a star:

• 1986 Laputa: Castle in the Sky - 10/10 ⭐
• 1988 My Neighbor Totoro - 10/10 ⭐
• 1989 Kiki’s Delivery Service - 10/10 ⭐
• 1997 Princess Mononoke - 10/10 ⭐
• 2001 Spirited Away - 10/10 ⭐
• 2002 The Cat Returns - 10/10 ⭐
• 2004 Howl’s Moving Castle - 10/10 ⭐
• 2006 Tales from Earthsea - 10/10 ⭐
• 2010 The Secret World of Arrietty - 10/10 ⭐
• 2011 From Up On Poppy Hill 10/10 ⭐
• 2014 When Marnie Was There 10/10 ⭐

I rated these in 2022. I thought I didn't enjoy Princess Mononoke like I did long before. Either way, baffling how many Studio Ghibli films are great or exceptional.

I think Princess Mononoke was my entry point into anime (other than weekly series on TV). I still have the German DVD.

I like Only Yesterday. There's just something appealing about getting away from a stifling job in the city and just going out to live in the country for fun, even if just for a week.

Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle, and My Totro.

I misread that as Princess Caligula for a second and was briefly very confused.

Only recently, I watched The Wind Rises and I loved it. I do not know what it is. It still has the sensitivity and the aesthetics of Ghibli under Miyazaki, which I genuinely love, but at the same time shows a confusing and unobvious real-life story, and very real dilemmas.

This is an impossible question to answer. I thought about it for at least a minute before giving up.

I've only seen three (Spirited Away, Nausicaa, and The Wind Rises), and Spirited Away was long enough ago that I don't remember much about it. But I loved both Nausicaa and Wind; if I had to pick a favorite it would probably be Wind just because the historical context drew me in even more than I already was.

For me it's a tie between mononoke, pom poko and the wind it rises

Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Porco Rosso
Spirited Away
Ponyo

Haven’t seen all of them yet, but so far it’s Kiki’s Delivery Service.

Mononoke is probably the "best" in my book but my personal favorite will always be Nausicaa. Although I just found out it predates the founding of studio Ghibli by one year.

Huge fan of Princess Mononoke.

Not sure what exactly it is, but the characters and setting have just stuck with me since the first time I saw it.