Recommend some non-perverted anime

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by jala12

When did this become a thing? The movie ends on a good note and there are other Ghibli movies that are more 'depressing'.

Old grudges: We WANTED Ghibli movies to catch on, after we'd heard Disney bought them all--But the Japanese studio insisted that Mononoke be shown in theaters, for bragging rights and...even if you like the movie, you'd agree, this is definitely not the first Miyazaki movie you'd show to first time audiences who maybe knew him only for the cute upbeat Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service.
Which, at the time, ESPECIALLY included Disney.

Disney was literally that close to dropping all Ghibli sales in the US after the dim arthouse reaction to the movie, and if it hadn't been for their curiosity to give Spirited Away a release to see if it would be just as successful in the US, Ghibli's bacon in the US would've been cooked right there and then.
Thus, although Mononoke gets a lot of 90's-mainstream-tradition press for being something fans say you "should" see, we do rather carry a grudge, portray it as Spirited and Nausicaa's red-headed stepchild, and tell first-timers, "Don't worry, they're not all like that..."