I've seen this movie. I liked it too :)

yeah I've seen it, was really cool.

I havent seen the movie but had heard of it. I seems like a nice story and it's probably a good film.
But as far as the actual animation goes I'm not that impressed. Sure it looks beautiful and is very very competently done, but from what I can tell from the trailer it doesn't really exploit the strenghs of animation as a medium imo. (Maybe there are scenes that do, and they just aren't shown in the trailer, though).
Imo the beauty of animation is that you can show things that you can't in real life. And while hyper realstic/idealized backrounds like these are very impressive, I also find them a tiny bit boring. I feel like the strengths of animation are much better utilized in films like ghiblis princess kaguya or madhouses Redline. The fluitidy of the animation, the stylization and the deformations all come toghether to carry the general mood of the film in those cases and serve to emphazise what the characters are going through.
If you're going to do realism with prettier colors you might as well shoot a life action film and do some heavy after effects work, imo.
Ghibli has also done fairly realistic backrounds in the past, but I'm that much more impressed because those were hand drawn with fucking poster colors.
Also, this last one is a pet peeve of mine, but I feel like the use of cgi and computer colored backrounds is really noticable in this trailer, to the point it's a little distracting to me.

As for my favourite Anime movies they're probably Spirited Away, Nausicaä, Howls Moving Castle, Grave of the Fireflies/Totoro (Because my little heart can't stand watching GotF on it's own) and Paprica. I have a pile of movies I need to watch though, Tokio Godfathers is at the top right now.

Graveyard of fireflies best anime movie ever.

in january on my youtubechannel (myTop-5 is the name): my top 5 best anime movies of all time : D

this movie, one word =

tag, so i won't forget to watch it tomorrow

Looks intresting and it also has pretty good visuals. Some of the scenes in the trailer kinda reminded me of MY favourite Anime Movie: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

I just watched it because of this thread. I gotta say that your point is valid, the animation is great and it's one of the most beautiful anime movies out there. But it's only 45minutes, i couldn't get attached to the characters, and the plot didn't quite make sense to me (Cultural disparity).

It was good, looked nice too.
Have you watched Patema inverted? That's more of a mystery, very well done movie.
When Marnie was there is a lot more melancholic, also great yet a lot slower and unfortunately the last from Ghibli.

Its been on my watch list for a while, never got around to it. I might just get around to it now. Other good movies are Pantema Inverted, The Girl Who Leaped Through Time and Sword of The Stranger.