[RKitagawa]

I am and always will be a huge fan of Pixar. I'm an animation student so my teacher's are always referring to Pixar as like... the best of the best. Which is pretty true. Pixar movies are all like that because they spend many years on each film ONLY for pre-production (planning each and every shot until they know exactly what the final film will look like. Of course a few of my teachers refer to Miyazaki as a god in the animation industry.

However, Pixar is still all family movies, same with disney. Which is why I prefer Japanese anime films. Films like Grave of the Fireflies, Ghost in the Shell, and Millennium Actress really push the boundaries of how mature an animated film can be. Of course there are some exceptions to this. But American animation does tend to be geared towards children.

EDIT: I saw Ponyo in Japanese, It's nothing like the little mermaid really... There are some similarities. I was actually really disappointed though. It was a beautiful film, the animation was top notch, it was creative, and had very unique ideas. But the story just never really came together.