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Ebert concluded that the film reaffirmed animation’s potential for serious, adult storytelling — a tradition he felt began with Snow White and continued with Miyazaki.

– Ebert stressed that while animated, the film deals with serious themes (environmentalism, war, dismemberment, death) and has intense, bloody violence. He called it “a movie for adults.” princess mononoke roger ebert

: He noted that the film avoids simplistic "good vs. evil" tropes, instead focusing on the struggle for a new emerging order between humans, forest animals, and nature gods. death) and has intense