Far as originals go, Boondocks is one of my favorites. The Christmas, MLK, movie piracy, Obama, and Tyler Perry episodes are amazing bits of satire.

Brak Show was part of the debut Adult Swim line-up, but CN did air more adult weird stuff late at night before AS launched.

On the anime side, Bebop, FLCL, and the unfortunately out-of-print Paranoia Agent are the must-sees.

Too bad about its low box office, but speaking of Pacific Rim and Japan, this made me incredibly happy: www.animenewsnetwork.com/in…

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Of course Aqua Teen probably costs a seventh of a better-animated show like Adventure Time, and there was that bomb scare which cost some people jobs, and also Adult Swim being run by different folks than the rest of Cartoon Network.

How was it?

They had him, in charge of Howl's Moving Castle even. I guess Miyazaki's tough to work with, probably similar insularity issues at Ghibli as there seem to be at Pixar. Hosoda basically made Miyazaki the villain of his One Piece movie.

Shinkai's not really up to Takahata yet either, since Takahata has insane range while Shinkai's mostly just been remaking his (admittedly stunning) first film. His attempt to do something slightly different, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, was disappointingly meh.

Him and the count in Cagliostro are the two in Miyazaki's filmography.

@avclub-735dd629ab696e3a1bfcc0fe0d687bb1:disqus Maybe Pan's Labyrinth, Ran, or Lawrence of Arabia, but really it's closer to a tie. Spirited Away really is one of the best movies ever.

You know, him starring in Grumpy Cat: The Movie (yes that's a real thing in production) might make it worth seeing.

Ponyo and Castle in the Sky are both pretty close to perfect for what they set out to achieve (psychedelic child-logic and steampunk-ish shonen adventure). Howl's more ambitious but midway through I think it loses track of what its ambitions even are. Cut out the needless war story, focus more on the relationships,…

The main character's design is way too much like Rapunzel, there's a forced male sidekick and his horse is basically the same horse from Tangled. It really looks painfully generic. Only really interested in the 2D/3D Mickey short before the movie and the songs by the Avenue Q guy.

Incredibles, Wall-E, and the Toy Story movies are, in fact, some of the greatest achievements in cinema and animation history. Some of the other Pixar movies are a bit overrated (never loved Finding Nemo or Ratatouille as much as some) but they're all very good and worth watching (except the Cars franchise). Better…

It would be the biggest collaboration between Disney and Warner Bros. since Roger Rabbit.

I think Chik-Fil-A promised to stop funding hate groups.

Why do people still wanna work with this guy exactly?

CGI is actual animation (unless you're talking motion capture, which is a grey area).

I'd put Kiki and Porco up there as classics. Kiki's my go-to sick day movie (Totoro works similarly but Kiki works a bit stronger on a plot level), and Porco's become one of my favorites, though maybe just because I haven't watched it as many times I have other Ghibli films so it feels fresher.