| I love the guy. I think he's a masterful filmmaker and great storyteller, but I've got to hold back points for how he treats some people. |
| Makes good stuff but is by almost all accounts an incredible jerk. |
| Miyazaki is a legend of the industry that is open about his criticism of the industry. He is uber based imo even as a fan of the otaku media he criticizes. |
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| A talented director but not really the kind of dude I'd want to be friends with. |
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| He’s a legend, an incredibly based and brutally honest individual, and takes his craft very seriously, which I greatly respect. I love his creative ideas and vision as well. He also said that cel animation is greater than computer animation, which I wholeheartedly agree with. |
| A legend in term of filmmaking tbh but quite hard to befriend because of his stern personality. As his son said "Zero Marks as a Father, Full Marks as a Director". |
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| the guy makes bad movies and has even worse opinions. |
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| old man who's a good animator but a trash director with no talent in writing |
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| Hayao Miyazaki is a genius, but surely here on MAL, where we have a Kubrick every corner, he's just a mediocre professional |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
Catalano said: old man who's a good animator but a trash director with no talent in writing I agree with the first part. He puts a lot of heart and love into his animation (love he should have shown his kids). Regarding his storytelling, If you've ever read the Nausicaa manga which I regard as his magnum opus, you see that the main thing that holds Miyazaki back is the movie's runtime. Could you imagine if Howl was a series? It's basically a debate over Film/series development. |
| How does he treat people? Never heard about it. But welp, the guy has 80yo, you don't get to that age without being a little grumpy. I think he's good, the people I see criticising him usually like trash anime that suffer from the same problems they claim to dislike in his movies, so eh. Another case like Makoto Shinkai where most of the hate derives more from their popularity than anything else. I wish he had made more manga, Nausicaa is a bit tiring but like Akira it's a landmark that hasn't been surmounted to this day. |
| He directed some good movies and some bad ones. |
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| i just think of him as tsundere ojii-san, grumpy and says hates anime but keep making them anyway and from his anime he clearly has a love for it, even though i know what he meant by hate, he just hate the current state of anime industry being not so wholesome.. probably. |
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| ghibli's impact is not insignificant regardless of what you think about the movies, but he seems like a massive ass, and there's a saddening amount of people that treat his word as gospel |
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_FRB_ said: there's a saddening amount of people that treat his word as gospel Ah, yes, indeed, you pretty got it on point.  OnionKnightRises said: Love his work, hate him as a person. I could be a 40 year old man who made a shitty piece of macaroni art, and my Dad would still hang that shit up on the fridge, so the fact that Miyazaki was such an ass about his son's directorial debut that was shown on the big screen rubbed me in every wrong way fucking possible. I thought it was just a manner of professionism, nothing personal there. He simply needed to speak his reception. |
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| Love his work, hate him as a person. I could be a 40 year old man who made a shitty piece of macaroni art, and my Dad would still hang that shit up on the fridge, so the fact that Miyazaki was such an ass about his son's directorial debut that was shown on the big screen rubbed me in every wrong way fucking possible. If my son even just made a Youtube video that got 50k views, he would be the most talented son in the god damn world to me. |
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| He's great. I'm a big fan of his games, the Souls Series, and Sekiro and Bloodborne. One of the best game directors. |
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| I think he truly is a legend. Due to his very strict views on what anime should be, he may come across as a douchebag, but I can usually see where he's coming from. The more skilled a person becomes, the less tolerant they get towards mediocrity. SgtBateMan said: Well, even I thought he was very harsh with some of his statements. There were surely a better way to put his opinions across than openly criticising his son's work in such scathing fashion. It didn't seem professional at all to me, and I felt like he let his emotions get the better of him.OnionKnightRises said: Love his work, hate him as a person. I could be a 40 year old man who made a shitty piece of macaroni art, and my Dad would still hang that shit up on the fridge, so the fact that Miyazaki was such an ass about his son's directorial debut that was shown on the big screen rubbed me in every wrong way fucking possible. I thought it was just a manner of professionism, nothing personal there. He simply needed to speak his reception. |
elnino02 said: I think he truly is a legend. Due to his very strict views on what anime should be, he may come across as a douchebag, but I can usually see where he's coming from. The more skilled a person becomes, the less tolerant they get towards mediocrity. Well, even I thought he was very harsh with some of his statements. There were surely a better way to put his opinions across than openly criticising his son's work in such scathing fashion. It didn't seem professional at all to me, and I felt like he let his emotions get the better of him. Ah, sorry, since I have yet read his comment. Indeed, if that was the way, it's kinda egoism, just like how John Lennon was, but I still believe he didn't hold anything personal to his son. |
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| lol I kinda agree! Also have you heard about all the reasons he hates the US and Hollywood in general😅 |
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| He was right about one thing: anime was a mistake. |
| Decent author and one that is loved by the pseudointellectuals, he is a solid 7/10 though but nothing more, maybe a couple of his shows can reach the 9/10 realm but pseudointellectuals like to treat his films like the Illiad and Odyssey of anime and everyone one of them haves a pestilent opinion of why "x" of his shows is his definitive "masterwork". His shows are better the younger you are but you dont see to much value on them after getting older. Still a 7/10 is very nice, he won an Oscar(I dont know if you can consider that something good nowadays but still) and he is probably rich. About his behavior, opinions and the way he treated his son, I really dont care about that, he isnt my idol neither I take any value from any sh*t he said,so I dont need to do the bitch*ng some people is doing in the comments. |
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| He's a little complicated person, but I like his work. |
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| Based, doesn't conform to anyone, speaks his mind. |
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| Maybe not the nicest guy ever, but he's a talented director~croak. |
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| If I started being an anime fan in the 2000s, Ghibli movies would be the shit to watch. Although the movies he directed were familial and peaceful and he is considered a legend, the depth isn't just there. Could I blame him for striking the hot iron when he realized Spirited Away was a success? Of course not. He's a talented person that's for sure. His personal life, although controversial, is irrelevant. |
| An asswipe old geezer who makes one of my favorite anime movie. |
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| makes boring movies but I've got to give him some points on how he treats people |
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| Super overrated along with Ghilbi. I heard hes a douche so ill check that out. |
| he made howl's moving castle, so i guess he's decent |
| Great creator, massive fucking dickhead human. To me he comes off as the type of person who is miserable and feels the need to make everyone around them miserable, too. I feel like it's gotta suck to have a person like this in your life to any significant capacity, as a relative or co-worker. |
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| Hate the person but he does make good content at least from the stuff I have seen. Both Future Boy Conan and Spirited Way were good. Storywise neither blows me away (though animation wise they are beautiful) but still very solid. As a person Miyazaki just seems like an pretentious D-bag who is actually kinda of a hypocrite on some things. It's funny he complains about LOTR for being "imperialistic" when he was ignoring the war crimes of an actual unrepentant nazi and decided to fanboy and meet him when making his funny animal story. That one case where he morally shamed people for making that monster implying they were insulting the disabled was also just peak self righteous garbage. Also regardless of his son messing up a work he wanted to do how he responded was very poor. In general I probably only feel as strong as I do on him as person because of all the dummy English speaking fans that unironcially think that because somemone makes good films and shows their opinions are always correct and irrefutable. I mean I actually like Tomino as a person unlike Miyazaki and he also says stupid shit. |
BilboBaggins365Jul 6, 2022 2:44 AM
PAPOrr said: From what I've seen on the studios hes a chill guy, but could also be very strict and perfectionist. Driven, Focused, Visionary artists often tend to be very specifically-minded Control Freaks... |
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| I like his work, he's got an interesting way of telling stories. I like the art of his movies too. I don't have anything to do with his personal life and I feel like I'd be a hypocrite if I were to say something while also thinking personal life and work life should be kept separate. |
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| Great director. Blunt critic. Occasional punching bag for the anime community's lowest of the low. |
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PAPOrr said: BilboBaggins365 said: Hate the person but he does make good content at least from the stuff I have seen. Both Future Boy Conan and Spirited Way were good. Storywise neither blows me away (though animation wise they are beautiful) but still very solid. As a person Miyazaki just seems like an pretentious D-bag who is actually kinda of a hypocrite on some things. It's funny he complains about LOTR for being "imperialistic" when he was ignoring the war crimes of an actual unrepentant nazi and decided to fanboy and meet him when making his funny animal story. That one case where he morally shamed people for making that monster implying they were insulting the disabled was also just peak self righteous garbage. Also regardless of his son messing up a work he wanted to do how he responded was very poor. In general I probably only feel as strong as I do on him as person because of all the dummy English speaking fans that unironcially think that because somemone makes good films and shows their opinions are always correct and irrefutable. I mean I actually like Tomino as a person unlike Miyazaki and he also says stupid shit. Dude, what exactly are you talking about? "Lord of the Rings""Nazi"? This is his comments on Lord of the Rings very apparent he hasn't actually read the books. Even the films aren't like how he described. It's amazing how he is so certain too when the orcs are easy to construe as being a product of industrial waste corrupting the human form or elven form as well in Tolkien or how the foreign Haradrim are attempted to be humanized by the characters in the Two Towers. A story with a definite evil doesn't imply the things he argues for. https://kotaku.com/hayao-miyazaki-seems-to-hate-lord-of-the-rings-indiana-1833458496 Also even the Indiana Jones movies while you can argue there is a sense of white savourism mostly in the second film but in the first and third Indy the American is mainly killing white Nazis. Plus the fact he thinks all American cinema is like that only shows again how his opinions on media aren't very good when he has a bone to pick with the creatives. Americans might have more America fuck yeah films but they are also way more critical of their own history than the Japanese are in their own media (it's nice Miyazaki wants to overlook why they had the Atom bomb dropped on them). Japanese creatives love to denounce war and embrace pacifism while again ignoring why specifically they were "forced" to adopt it. Plus after the after effects were apparent the justification regarding the bombings has been debated in the English world since pretty much the 50s. Ultimately he doesn't like Americans so he is going to literally argue that American film is just what Micheal Bay lol? This is him later hanging out with renowned unrepentant Nazi tank ace Otto Carius where he wrote a manga based off his exploits which of course overlooks the very real atrocities of the Eastern Front vastly worse in my opinion than what he accuses American media of doing. There isn't anything wrong with humanizing the nazis or writing stories from their perspective but you can't overlook why the war was being fought or everything that went on. If the argument is well it's for a younger audience well maybe it shouldn't have been? https://twitter.com/tacticalfiend/status/1379479323384627204?lang=en Dude is a grade A hypocrite to denounce Imperialism so vividly yet ignore such things. The fact people actually put his dumb opinions on pedestal because he helped found a very influential anime studio and make good films is incredibly dumb. We have lots of talented creatives in Hollywood too and I wouldn't take any of their opinions seriously. |
BilboBaggins365Jul 6, 2022 4:44 PM
| a true legend. it's funny bc he makes all these fantastic family friendly animations but seems like a dark sensed guy. very opposite of ito junji |
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