A: What, you mean the manic depression and pecimism that seems to underlie each of the stories, the fact that the main characters always look like the same two people, or the freaky monsters and creatures that make you go "Oh my god, what the Hell is that!?" It all boils down to one thing: Studio Ghibli loves the booze... they love it so much that they begin to get the "Happy Hour Syndrome" (Hey... you... fuck... you don' know fuck about shit... get over here'n I'll kick my ass... ) - that explains the oh-so happy motifs about all of the movies; it also explains the monsters (baaaaaad sake leads to Totoro and worse
); and as for the similarities in characters? Let's just say Future Boy Conan had one too many, one thing led to another, and it led there again another 50 times... long story short, that boy's got one HELL of an allamony payment per month.
Q: Do cat girls "smell like fish?"
You know what they say: "when life gives you a T-Rex, go ninja-kick it in the head." - Rayne Summers, Least I Could Do
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