oh yeah we also got a chance to watch Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind over the holidays too! we took our brother to a used game+movie store to let him pick a gift and found a copy of it while we were there (as well as Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Princess Mononoke! of course we ended up getting all of them, but they stayed at the family's house)
we can definitely see why people praise that movie so much. it was outstanding.
unrelatedly, we understand *why* they did it of course but the use of "raccoon pouch" in the dub of Pom Poko is really silly. clearly they couldn't release it with its intended rating if they didn't censor it somehow, but really!
and just calling them raccoons instead of tanuki, which I can only assume is because a lot of people in the west don't know what tanuki are (a situation that really should be rectified because they're *adorable*)