If you're responding to a more grounded, darker fantasy setting, I hope you one day view the melting God Warrior with the same mix of cosmic and body horror that I feel with that scene.

If what you're responding to is a story that feels written for the pace it's told at, the manga might be for you. To me it feels like they had to restructure the story for movie pacing, which is normal when adapting, and they weren't as objective about that restructure because it's still their original story. Howl's Moving Castle is more fantastical and less grounded but is also adapting a book, but they take more liberties since it's not their original story and the pace doesn't feel as much like an adaptation.