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5 Centimeters Per Second (movie)So-so49

Complete List (All Animated Films)
The Archivist
A.LI.CE (movie)Not really good37
Afro Samurai (TV)Bad14
Ah! My Goddess: The MovieSo-so49
Ai City (movie)Weak27
Akira (movie)Masterpiece94
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (movie)Not really good38
Alibaba to Yonjuppiki no Tōzoku (movie)Not really good36
Angel's Egg (movie)Good63
Animal Treasure Island (movie)Decent54
(The) Animatrix (OAV)Not really good40
Appleseed (movie)So-so47
Arion (movie)Decent52
Azumi (live-action movie)So-so43
Baby Blue (movie)Very good75
Barefoot Gen (movie)Awful7
Battle Royale (live-action movie)Good66
Be Forever Yamato (movie)Not really good42
Belladonna of Sadness (movie)Awful7
Big Wars (OAV)Not really good37
Black Jack The MovieWeak26
Black Magic M-66 (OAV)Decent53
Blood: The Last Vampire (movie)Weak25
(The) Boy Who Saw the Wind (movie)Weak29
Brave Story (movie)Decent58
Bubblegum Crisis (OAV)Decent52
Cannon Fodder (movie)Decent56
Castle in the Sky (movie)Masterpiece95
(The) Cat Returns (movie)Very good74
Cat Soup (OAV)Awful8
Catnapped! The MovieVery good73
Construction Cancellation Order (movie)So-so44
Coo: Tōi Umi kara Kita Coo (movie)Bad18
Cowboy Bebop (TV)Masterpiece93

[ 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.11, 1.14, 1.21 ]
Cowboy Bebop: The MovieDecent52
Crusher Joe: The MovieDecent58
(The) Dagger of Kamui (movie)Weak24
Dallos (OAV)So-so50
Dark Cat (movie)Weak25
(The) Day the Earth Moved (movie)Not really good37
Dead Leaves (OAV)So-so49
Demon City Shinjuku (OAV)So-so50
Dominion Tank Police (OAV)Not really good39
(The) Door into Summer (movie)Awful10
Doorbell (movie)Good62
Dracula: Sovereign Of The Damned (special)Awful12
E.Y.E.S. of Mars (movie)So-so45
Elf Princess Rane (OAV)Decent59
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato (movie)So-so44
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (movie)So-so47
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (US CG movie)Not really good40
Final Yamato (movie)Not really good36
(The) Five Star Stories (movie)Not really good34
Flying Phantom Ship (movie)So-so45
Gall Force - Eternal Story (movie)So-so48
Gauche the Cellist (movie)Decent57
Genius Party (movie)Bad17

Review (All)
Ghost in the Shell (movie)Excellent82
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (movie)Excellent81
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (movie)Good61
(The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie)Excellent88

Review
Golgo 13: The Professional (movie)Awful8
Grave of the Fireflies (movie)So-so44

A rare misfire for Ghibli. Amazing how the studio can skip from the intrepid Castle in the Sky where the characters' actions decided their outcomes to something as lumbering and operatic as Grave of the Fireflies, merely a post-war lament that watches as its two passive protagonists suffer helplessly at the hands of forces entirely beyond their control. Sweeping pathos with little understanding and few ideas, endlessly tragic circumstances resulting from irrevocable sources rather than characters' decisions, single-minded reliance on the magnitude of the disaster to achieve emotional heft - this film literally hits every tenet of melodrama all by its lonesome. On a positive note, Grave of the Fireflies is about fifty times better than the eerily similar Barefoot Gen.
Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (movie)So-so43
Gundress (movie)Not really good40
Gunslinger Girl (TV)Decent59

[ 1.08, 1.09 ]
Happy Machine (movie)Decent57
Hermes - Winds of Love (movie)Weak30
Horus - Prince of the Sun (movie)Good62
Howl's Moving Castle (movie)Masterpiece93
INTERSTELLA 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (movie)Not really good42
Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade (movie)Not really good
A Journey Through Fairyland (movie)Decent53
Judge (OAV)Bad21
Jungle Emperor Leo (movie 1997)Not really good36
Junkers Come Here (movie)So-so51
Kakurenbo - Hide & Seek (OAV)Decent53
Karas (OAV)Not really good39
Kiki's Delivery Service (movie)Excellent80
Labyrinth Story (movie)Not really good36
(The) Laws of Eternity (movie)Bad21
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (movie)Good64

Lots of interesting observations, the most controversial of which is likely the empire founded on wisdom courtesy the bumbling, pedantic scholar who needed fifty years to figure out the difference between men and women is the capacity to bear children. Also captivating when it examines how political strife and modernism cause social classes to blur. I'd list more but I'm too baffled by the curt ending that somehow fails to provide a resolution for any of the film's ideas in favor of a historical and-that's-that. Still probably the best TV movie around next to Ocean Waves / I Can Hear the Sea though.
Little Nemo - Adventures in Slumberland (movie)Not really good41
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (movie)Excellent86
Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure (special)Not really good38
Magnetic Rose (movie)Excellent87
Mahō Gakuen Lunar! Aoi Ryū no Himitsu (movie)So-so45
Manie Manie: Neo Tokyo (movie)N/A

(Segments listed individually)
Memories (movie)N/A

(Segments listed individually)
Metropolis (movie)Decent58
Millennium Actress (movie)Masterpiece90
Mind Game (movie)Weak27
Miyori in the Sacred Forest (special)So-so51
Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show (movie)Worst ever4
My Neighbor Totoro (movie)Good68
My Neighbors the Yamadas (movie)Decent53
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia (movie)Masterpiece96

Review
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie)Decent60
Night on the Galactic Railroad (movie)Not really good41
Ninja Scroll (movie)Decent54
Ocean Waves (movie)Very good78

Maybe a tad mundane for Ghibli, but what incredible nuance for the first project of an up-and-coming crop of animators, even considering they were taught by the best of the best. Won't spoil the whole movie here but keep an eye out for two staggering scenes. First, when our heroes go for a night-time stroll to unwind after the hysterical reunion dinner, the mood is just perfect, one of fond chagrin for how serious their conflicts and relationships seemed back then, and the concluding shot mirrors this attitude with a slow pullback from the lit-up building - the ardor and intensity of high school fade as these guys and gals finally graduate emotionally. Seems melancholy, but the second astonishing scene that occurs on the subway with Taku and Rikako qualifies the notion; in a film of largely static shots ... whooooaaaaaaaa! The camera pivots into a whip-pan of appropriate grandeur; the perfect way to acknowledge maturity doesn't oblige the loss of passion or majesty. If this film is any indication, post-Miyazaki/Takahata Ghibli is in good hands.
Odin - Starlight Mutiny (movie)Not really good39
Oh My Goddess! (OAV)Decent56
Only Yesterday (movie)Very good72
Origin ~Spirits of the Past~ (movie)Good65
Oseam (Korean movie)Weak29
Panda! Go, Panda! (movie)So-so47
Panda! Go, Panda!: Rainy Day Circus (movie)So-so46
Paprika (movie)Very good79
Perfect Blue (movie)Decent55
Phoenix 2772 - Space Firebird (movie)Decent57
(The) Piano Forest (movie)Not really good41
(The) Place Promised in Our Early Days (movie)So-so45
Pokémon (TV)Awful11
Pokémon: The First Movie (movie 1)Awful6
Pom Poko (movie)Good64
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (movie)Very good77

Review
Porco Rosso (movie)Masterpiece100
Princess Arete (movie)Decent58
Princess Mononoke (movie)Very good71
Project A-ko (movie)So-so47
Puss 'n Boots (movie)So-so48
Read or Die (OAV)So-so45
Red Hawk - Weapon of Death (Korean movie)Not really good36
Resident Evil: Degeneration (movie)Weak29
Ringing Bell (movie)Bad18
Robot Carnival (OAV)So-so46
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (movie)Good69
Running Man (movie)Not really good42
Sailor Moon (TV)Very good77

[ 1.01, 1.03, 1.04, 1.12, 1.17, 1.18, 1.25, 1.28, 1.31 ]

Going off memory here, need a quick rewatch to snag the remainder of the superb episodes, but know for a fact 1.31 was the last great one. Had this period persisted through the last fifteen episodes the series would have easily gone 90+.
Sea Prince and the Fire Child (movie)So-so44
Shanghai Dragon (movie)Bad14
She and Her Cat (OAV)So-so43
Silent Möbius: The Motion PictureBad21
Silent Möbius: The Motion Picture 2Weak27
(The) Sky Crawlers (movie)Decent59
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage (movie)Not really good37
Spirited Away (movie)Masterpiece97
Spriggan (movie)So-so44
Steamboy (movie)Very good79

Review
Stink Bomb (movie)Weak31
Summer Days with Coo (movie)Not really good35
Summer Wars (movie)Good63
Swan Lake (movie)Not really good36
Sword of the Stranger (movie)So-so45
Tales from Earthsea (movie)So-so46
Tamala 2010 (movie)Bad22
Tekkonkinkreet (movie)Not really good39
They Were 11 (movie)Decent53
Toki no Tabibito -Time Stranger- (movie)Decent52
Tokyo Godfathers (movie)Decent55
Toward the Terra (movie)So-so49
A Tree of Palme (movie)So-so45
Trigun (TV)Good69
Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend (OAV)Weak33

(Urotsukidoji I: Chojin Densetsu only)
Venus Versus Virus (TV)Not really good36
Venus Wars (movie)Decent57
Vexille - 2077 Isolation of Japan (movie)Not really good36
Voices of a Distant Star (OAV)So-so48
Wata no Kuni Hoshi (OAV)Not really good42
(The) Weathering Continent (movie)Not really good40
Whisper of the Heart (movie)Very good75
(The) White Snake (movie)Not really good40
Wicked City (movie)Weak26
A Wind Named Amnesia (movie)Very good77
Windaria (movie)Not really good37
Yonna in the Solitary Fortress (movie)Weak30
You're Under Arrest: The Motion PictureSo-so49
Yu-Gi-Oh! (movie 1999)Awful11
Zaion: I Wish You Were Here (ONA)So-so43