I've never watched princess mononokay (or however its spelled) is it any good?
You bet ya! Okay it is a bit old (10 years I think..) but it's really great! :D
Spoiler:
It's about a girl names San (or princess Mononoke.. I don't really know if that's her true name or just a nickname..) who lives in forrest together with a wolf goddes named Moro and her two wolf sons. She one day encounters a guy named Ashitaka, he's the prince of an old tribe called the Emishi. Ashitaka is searching for Shishigami - 'the forrest spirit'. The forrest spirit is like the god pf the forrest. He has many powers, one of them is also the power to give and take life away. So Ashitaka seeks his help because he recieved a fatal curse that will slowly consume his body. Ashitaka recieved that curse from a bore-god that was corrupted by pain and hatred and if he doesn't do something about the same thing will happen to him. Ashitaka finds out where is the source of the hatred or should I rather say where did the bore-god get the curse. So Ashitaka goes to that place and finds himself in an iron town (ppl ho live there make iron :D). Near the town is the forrest in which San and the forrest spirit live. But in that town there lives a lady called Lady Eboshi. She's, so to say, the leader of the town. She runs the iron production. Because ppl in that town produce iron they have to cut donw trees in the forrest and this causes great controversy between Lady Eboshi, the forrest gods and San. Lady Eboshi is so determined that she wants to kill the forrest gods so there wouldn't be anyone who would stand between her and the forrest.
I hope I cleared things out. ;)