Listening to the ‘Ni no Kuni’ Soundtrack Reminded Me of the Importance of Hope

Listening to the ‘Ni no Kuni’ Soundtrack Reminded Me of the Importance of Hope

Once you experience your first Hayao Miyazaki film, you understand exactly why he’s one of the most celebrated filmmakers around. I wish I could say the proper beginning of my Studio Ghibli journey was Princess Mononoke, which I watched with my significant other as an uncultured philistine way later in life than I’d care to admit. However — though it’s not technically part of Studio Ghibli’s oeuvre — my actual initial contact with the prolific s…