This is a really nice article about anti-war themes in Studio Ghibli films:

https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/miyazaki-s-beautiful-antiwar-dreams-44951be1be11

No film has ever made me cry so much as Grave of the Fireflies. From about 5 minutes into it until about an hour after it I was just bawling my eyes out. Even just reading that article has made my eyes well up again.

I really want to watch all the Ghibli films again now but maybe not Grave of the Fireflies, that would be too much…