After talking about my favorite anime movies for years . I thought it time to share my 10 most “favorite anime movies” list here in blog . I will fully admit I have a unique taste in movies Especially in anime movies .

What can I say I like what I like !

10 MUST WATCH ANIME MOVIES.

1.) SPIRITED AWAY.

SUMMARY PLOT OVERVIEW:
Chihiro, a ten-year-old girl, sulks in the back seat of her parents’ car. The family is on its way to a new home in a new town, and Chihiro doesn’t want to move. When her father gets lost taking a short cut, they discover the entrance to an abandoned theme park. The parents investigate and find a deserted stall piled with food. They start eating, and soon, they’re both pigging out. They try to make Chihiro eat, but she has a bad feeling about it and refuses the food. Chihiro wanders away by herself. While she explores, a boy appears and warns her to leave before dark. She runs back to the stall, only to find that her parents have turned intopigs. As night falls, shadowy spirits fill the park, and Chihiro starts becoming transparent. The boy appears again and coaxes her to eat food from the spirit world, which will keep her from disappearing. He then leads her to a busy bathhouse, negotiating her safely through a phalanx of spirits who aren’t happy about having a human among them. After getting her to safety, he gives her detailed instructions on how to get a job in the spirit world, which he says is the only way to survive. He says his name is Haku, and that he has known her since she was very small.

This anime won best animated feature in the second year of the category’s existence — and, to this day , it is the only hand -drawn future to win the honor .

2.) HOWLS MOVING CASTLE.

SUMMARY – Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. The vain and vengeful Witch of the Waste, jealous of their friendship, puts a curse on Sophie and turns her into a 90-year-old woman. On a quest to break the spell, Sophie climbs aboard Howl’s magnificent moving castle and into a new life of wonder and adventure. But as the true power of Howl’s wizardry is revealed, Sophie finds herself fighting to protect them both from a dangerous war of sorcery that threatens their world.

3.) BUNGO STRAY DOG ( DEAD APPLE)

SUMMARY – Power users around the world are suddenly committing suicide one after another, in all cases after a strange fog appears at the scene. At a request from Ango Sakaguchi, the Armed Detective Agency head out to investigate Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, a power user who calls himself “collector,” and a man suspected of being tied to the incident.

4.) YOUR NAME

SUMMARY – The movie centers on the young girl, Mitsuha Miyamizu, or Miki, as she longs to be a boy in Tokyo in her next life. In order to make this happen, she switches bodies with a boy named Taki Tachibana.

The switch has benefits for both, as Taki manages to get a girlfriend and Miki manages to become popular in school. However, the body switch comes to an abrupt end. Taki, wanting to switch back, goes on to find Miki in real life. However, he has to rely on his memories to find her hometown. When he eventually finds her town, he realizes it was destroyed by a comet three years ago. This is when he realizes that their timeline had a three-year difference.

Taki decides to go to a scared shrine in order to reconnect their bodies so that he can warn Miki about the comet and save her from death. When he reunites with her again, he realizes that she is in love with him. Reciprocating her feelings, Taki tries to warn the town people to evacuate. However, he and Miki begin to separate once again, due to their timelines, and Miki wakes up in his own life, unable to remember anything.

Five years later, Taki and Miki are on a train. Despite not knowing each other due to the erasure of their memories, they are drawn to each other. However, when they visit the sacred shrine together they become reconnected and remember everything. The movie ends with them living happily together.

5.) BELLE

SUMMARY – When Suzu was a child, her mother introduced her to what looks like GarageBand on an iPhone, and through the years, she’d write and record music and even made a friend in Hiro to handle the arrangements and more. However, after the loss of her mom, Suzu became so traumatized about singing that she’d vomit even if she tried. This is why Hiro introduces Suzu to U, which becomes a lifesaver.

In U, a metaverse type world, Suzu can become Bell, later renamed Belle, and sing as she wishes she could in reality. But alongside getting the ability to sing again, she gains a following, and one person in particular who needs U to be the lifesaver it was for Suzu, but in their reality.

6.) WHISPER OF THE HEART

SUMMARY -The story revolves around Shizuku Tsukishima, a teenage girl who is in the last grade of high school, and, instead of studying for her exams, prefers to read literary books and …follow stray cats. When she meets an ambitious, young boy, she gets inspired to test herself and her writing skills, while struggling to find her place in the world.

7.) FROM UP ON POPPY HILL.

SUMMARY – Umi Matsuzaki is a sixteen year old high school student who every day wakes up before the other members of the household, which includes her siblings, a sister and a brother, as well as boarders, and raises a signal flag in the garden for her deceased sea captain father. She then prepares breakfast for everyone else before setting off for school. She is shown as a very responsible and independent person, taking care of the running of the household for her grandmother, but at the same time there is an obvious empty gap where her mother and father should be. Her grandmother as well comments on how sad it is to her that Umi sends up the signal flags every day to help guide her long dead father home and she wishes for there to be someone in Umi’s life.

Unbeknownst to Umi, every day a passing tugboat answers her signal flags, from her garden she can’t see it, and from that tugboat a young man disembarks every day to cycle to school. His name is Shun Kazama, he is one of the school newspaper’s journalists and also a ring leader in the campaign to save their old, but beloved club house. By chance Umi is invited to help with the newspaper and thus starts to get to know Shun, she begins to understand his passion to save the clubhouse and in the process starts to realize a life outside of her deceased father and running her grandmother’s household. This is shown as she starts to make mistakes with her chores and suggests a plan to renew the student’s clubhouse which she gets actively involved in.

8.) WORD BUBBLE UP LIKE SODA POP.

SUMMARY -Words and music bridge the gap between Cherry, a boy who is terrible at communicating with other people, and Smile, a girl who hides behind a mask. They meet in a mundane suburban shopping mall in a provincial city. Cherry always wears headphones and puts the feelings he cannot utter into his hobby, Japanese haiku poems. Smile always wears a mask to conceal her large front teeth, for which she has dental braces. As a popular video star, she streams a video about seeking “cuteness.”

9.) GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES

SUMMARY – In 1945, Seita, a teenage boy, lives with his younger sister Setsuko and their family in Kobe. After an air raid, their mother eventually dies due to severe burning on her body, leaving Seita in charge of his sister, while their father, a marine officer, is still at sea fighting the allied forces. For the time being, they manage to stay with their aunt, and Seita decides to not tell his sister about their mother’s death, in an attempt to protect her from the cruelty of war and the grief he experiences. Like his other relatives, Setsuko does his best at trying to survive, at gathering what few supplies are left and selling whatever they can spare to have some rice for his sister and himself.

However, as time goes by and become even more trying on the family, his aunt confronts Seita about what she perceives as laziness and not doing his duty for the nation. As their arguments put a strain on their relationship, Seita and Setsuko leave their aunt’s home for an abandoned bomb shelter nearby, where they eventually decide to live. In the weeks that follow, the teenage boy realizes he can no longer protect his sister from war and sickness, as she becomes weaker due to lack of proper food and clean drink.

10.) DRIFTING HOME

SUMMARY -Kosuke and Natsume have been friends since childhood, but as time goes on the relationship between the two sixth graders seems strained as they keep avoiding one another. One day during their summer vacation, they go to a housing complex that is scheduled to be demolished. Having grown up there, the place holds a lot of memories. While playing, they suddenly get caught up in a mysterious phenomenon and when they regain consciousness, they see an entire ocean before them as the housing complex has drifted into a mysterious sea along with Kosuke and Natsume with it. Will they be able to return to their previous world? A summer farewell journey begins.