Is Spirited Away the one with the "faceless" monster? (that which is wearing a mask, and runs amok eating some of the other characters).
I have seen princess Mononoke. It has some very mainstream elements i think. Nausica has them too, with the factions doing battle. The use of inhuman, special sides exists in both.
The theme of the battle between the world of man and the world of animals is interesting, and also that some of the larger animals are a kind of small deity, as that wild boar.
Nausica had made an impression on me when i first watched some of it, in elementary school, mostly due to the toxic jungle, where the insects had all grown to huge size, and then tried to attack the world of humans.
Also the theme of lonely heroes had impressed me.
If one compares the japanese animation with the euro-american one, the latter always is full of niceties, and there ussually is no underlying strungle, whereas in japanese there always are outcasts and conflicts.
I am also looking for an ancient manga tv series which was about some child that was the son of a dragon. In the end he meets his mother, who is that dragon. It was a quite miserable story.
@Till: i remember only the musical theme of Saber Rider. As a child i have watched tons of japanimation and other cartoons
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