Do you have anything to say about this man?
215 posts and 54 image replies omitted.>>23254To be honest, Porco and Mononoke are closer to what his movies are actually about than people on the internet really seem to realize.
Miyazaki has kind of become the Wes Anderson of anime - his style has been meme'd and caricatured by people who haven't really engaged his work and probably haven't even seen much of his stuff. Most people act like all of his movies are just wholesome, comfy slice of life - when really, only Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service are really consistenty like that.
Miyazaki's movies certainly have a pastoral vibe and have extended "cozy" sequences, but everyone forgets that those scenes are often followed by imagery of either mass destruction and violence or weird, fucked-up organic corruption. Everyone acts like Totoro is emblematic of the man's filmography, while forgetting that this is the same guy who made Porco Rosso, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, The Boy and the Heron and Princess Mononoke, all works that have either heavy themes, extended sequences of apocalyptic or unsettling imagery - hell, we're talking about the guy who got his start directing Lupin the Third
Miyazaki ain't no wholesome director. There's a real darkness in his work that the internet keeps whitewashing thanks to cinematically illiterate hipster-weebs
>>20358>>20342Related to this, can anyone answer
>>>/music/8761 ? The song is uploaded and partially answered in
>>>/music/12134 >>24725Miyazaki generally comes off as:
1. a very perfectionistic artist with high standards of himself and others
2. a disillusioned communist who got blackpilled by the 80s and 90s and wants to blow up modern japan for being emblematic of everything he hates
3. kind of a dysfunctional asshole
You put all three together, you get Mr. Fuck-Anime Anime Grandpa
>>26303unironicaly you're missing out on cosuming some actual decent cultural products.
>>26297i can see his points honestly, comparing the flat goyslop that keeps getting worse ( with eceptions ofc, both in western and japanese animation) with his creation and other good shows of the past. I think his critique of anime is basically beeing angry at the fact that the medium of animation is beeing used for overly commodified garbage instead of expanding its potential to create meaningful and "deep" art.
Actually, i would raccomand anyone to read the nausicaa manga, it's basically "Miyazaki theory" and i find it fascinating and full of marxist insight, even with the famous "rejection of marxism", (and an amazing story).
>>3873>And they aren't sexualized.Holy cope. Kiki's delivery service has a ton of panty shots of kiki.
>Bai-Niang was essentially a 'waifu' back when he was in highschool, which means he was around the same age, 2-4 years older than the main characterEven more cope. He was 17 when he watched the movie
>inb4 bai-niang is ackshually 1000 years old >>27328>he's not qualified to speak on such mattersNeither are STEMcels but are they suddenly not intellectuals? Some intellectuals have a very overblown understanding of what they're intellectual in.
>nor truly proletarianCut me with this Marxist idpol, it's not an actual class analysis, just your feefees. By that logic I'd say that no profession is truly proletarian because of bourgeois cultural hegemony.
>>27336 (me)
And this is no hate towards Miyazaki. I love his films. I just don't take them as education instead of entertainment/art.
>>27336>liberal Miyazaki is not an authority relative to any workerLol, it's not that you criticize Miyazaki but rather it's precisely that workerist attitude of yours. The workers have no more authority than the bourgeoisie just because of their class position. Frankly, seeking "authority" from others is a bourgeois idea, think for yourself lmao.
>his living conditions are far removed from the majority of the working classesDoes he own Ghibli? In that case I apologize, but class treason isn't entirely out of the question. He was a Marxist for
some reason after all.
>>27336This.
Most people don't even respect academic process except for brownie points to justify putting others down for different opinions
>>27327>Kiki's delivery service has a ton of panty shots of kiki."Family-friendly" anime be like.
I do wonder why that's here if his works are supposedly kodomomuke. Like, this stuff ain't for kids. If that's just physics then I'd understand but if that's deliberate then it's just baffling. Did he, like, expect grown men who are into little anime girls to watch his movies or something?
>>27328>intellectualsNo such thing.
Art is a skill and one that doesn't automatically qualify or disqualify one from political literacy. Engels developed both and so have many artists.
>>27351>She's wearing bloomers you can't see her panties.People do be spreading misinfo on the Internet these days. 🤷
>>27352Trvthnvke.
>>27357Defend this then.
Do you want me to post his comments about nausicaa's breasts as well? How much more evidence do you need to finally admit that the director you admire is a disgusting pedophile
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