I havent seen totoro. Whats wrong with mononoke? Its classic I'm sorry to say. Demons & spirits and man! Thats so japanese. I liked spirited away in a different way too.

I didn't just mean a younger age group, but a different generation in general. It seems to me that a film made in the early 80s and a film made in the mid-90s are going to have different angles simply because of when they were made, and what was in the air at the time they were made.

Nausicaa (like other films from that era: Star Wars comes to mind) seems strickly good vs. evil, while Mononoke is more confrontational with its characters, such as Lady Eboshi and San, who are hardly as cut and dry as Nausicaa and her female conterpart (the name escapes me). The characters are more complex in Mononoke and so are the answers. At the end of Mononoke there seems to be no clarification on the relationship between the wilderness and culture. San prefers her wolf family to humans and it appears she has developed more of a truce with humans (via Ashitaka) rather than a bond like the one Nausicaa has with the Ohmu.

Personally, I think the movies compliment each other. Everything can be contrasted: the heroines, the villians, the relationships between the different civilizations, even the two large creatures (the God Soldier and the Forest Spirit). I can say one is better than the other.

I just saw porco Rosso and really had a lot of fun watching it..
I have yet to see Nausicca

i *love* nausicaa. it's one of my favs. the message, the "there is no pure good, no pure evil"-theme, like in most ghibli movies, the design... hmm, got to read the manga, though, so it seems ;)