Boom of Anime: Top 5 movies to start your spree

Anime is no longer a film production which is concealed from children or even adults all over the world. The rise of anime consumers has risen significantly over the past 3 years. 

Anime is a type of visual animation which includes varied types of hand drawn and computer generated animation. The characters are  intricately detailed and delineated for a particular movie or a show. Anime stands tall as a form of television film and  entertainment in Japan both for children and adults. 

The characters are not static but in motion, the settings looks more of a painting, in fact a hand drawn painting with tremendously beautiful, vast and ravelled designed landscapes. The character may have vivid hair styles, sharp or blunt face features, similar clothes for remembrance of the character, beautiful gleaming landscapes and very precisely designed buildings and architecture all around. 

Anime is basically a type of animation that originates in Japan. It is widely available all over the world either on the OTT platforms or on the television itself. India is a significant consumer of Japanese animations. It provides completely different insights to the person watching, shifts your perspectives, enchants you to a completely new world  and captivates the viewer with its storytelling abilities. 

Surely Anime can also be very complex for some people to understand at first due to its time taking nature. Few of the very prominent anime web series are streamed for up to 10+ hours.  Naruto, a manga series, stands as the most prominent and famous that both children and adults view. This roughly contains 20+ episodes of almost 25 mins each over 9 seasons. 

But Anime movies can really be a smart choice as a beginner. Firstly these require the same amount of time as other movies so you won’t be going out of your way to try something new, secondly movies give you an upper hand to try different tastes in it in a short period of time.

Let’s dive right into some Anime movies that you can watch on any day when starting your spree:

Howl’s Moving Castle

Year: 2004

Time: 1h 59m

This is a movie based on Sophie, a girl who works in her late father’s shop and makes friends with Wizard Howl who lives in a castle in motion. But the twist arises where the evil witch of waste tries to ruin their sprouting relationship by making Sophie grow old prematurely. 

Spirited Away

Year: 2001

Time: 2h 5m

This is a movie based on a little girl Chihiro who is sad to move houses with her parents but instead they take a detour and mistakenly enters a magical world where a witch rules beneath the darkness of the night. Most importantly the place prohibited to humans and whoever disobeys the witch turns into pigs. Initially in the movie the parents turn into pigs and Chihiro escapes to only rescue all of them out of this magical world and into their normal lives. 

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Year: 1989

Time: 1h 43m

This movie is about a little 13 year old girl who is a witch in training. She moves cities in order to train but also needs a job to sustain her livelihood. Hence she starts delivering goods for people on her broom that she flies on. Everything moves well until she loses the ability to fly. Life takes a new turn for her. 

Light hearted Anime- When Marnie Was There

Year: 2014

Time: 1h 43m

This is a movie about a little girl Anna who finds making friends really hard. But when she spends her summer holidays in a sleepy seaside town where she finds a beautiful girl, maybe imaginary or maybe not living in a far off villa across the marshes. They unite but out of some relations. Those relations are really beautiful and pious. Anna finds answers to her lifelong questions.

My Neighbor Totoro

Year: 1988

Time: 1h 27m

This movie is about 2 sisters who move houses with their father and eventually find a mystical character’s presence around their house in the forest. The sisters befriend the character and experience the different side of the world. They are also helped by the character in many different ways. 

Anime’s general appeal is very tough and strong characters who love to fight but here the movie recommendations are not hard on the core but instead all are feel-good, heartfelt and imaginative. This animation is heartfelt and imaginative, and features family and children. 

They  are surrounded with children, families and most importantly light for a beginner. Every movie takes you to a different magical world and your imagination broadens.