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I think you can give Miyazaki a lot more credit than that for the girls and women in Totoro, Kiki, Mononoke, and Spirited Away.

• astrange 3y ago
  I'm basing this comment on an interview I read where Oshii makes fun of him for it. (Which unfortunately I can't link because it's on my own website, where Wordpress auto-updated itself and broke and I haven't fixed it.) I think their thesis was that Miyazaki was most like this in the 80s-90s (see Porco Rosso, which stars a self-insert of himself), then was a dad in the 2000s (Spirited Away), then later entered a second childhood (see Ponyo and Wind Rises, which is mainly about how cool planes are.)
  • serf 3y ago
    >Wind Rises, which is mainly about how cool planes are. if that was your main take-away from that movie, I suggest you re-watch it. it reminds me of the meme that Gundam fans ignore the fact that the story is about the brutality of endless human conflict for the fact that there are shiny robots and cool technologies.
    • astrange 3y ago
      It's a synthesis. War is bad because it detracts from the purity of thinking about how cool planes are. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/hayao-miyazaki-film-wind-rises https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/hayao-miyazaki... The Gundam meme is an over-simplification; Tomino is moralistic but he's far too weird to just have a normal moral like that. Typical Tomino morals are like "all old people are evil, including myself", "we should have a matriarchy", and whatever Brain Powerd was about.