Miyazaki “Not Retiring After All Again”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 3, 2014 04:09 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Hayao Miyazaki, Movies, Production Controversy, Studio Ghibli
Ghibli giant Hayao Miyazaki has – to the surprise of nobody it seems – retracted his latest promise to retire, making it the 7th time he has vowed to quit only to think better of it.
The withdrawal, made in a radio broadcast on New Year’s Eve, marks the 7th such recantation (although by some counts he has done it as many as 10 times).
Starting after Laputa in 1986 and again in 1992, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2008 and now 2013, it now seems a time honoured tradition for him to celebrate his latest blockbuster’s success with a retirement announcement.
Online the usual railery has intensified, with there being some mild relief that his latest “retirement marketing” will not interfere with the prospect of a Nausicaa sequel.
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lol
Well, it's not really a surprise.
Who does he think he is, Brett Favre?
"i aint retiring till im dead" - Brett Favre
Typical over dramatic fruitcake, he'd fit in nicely with your typical holleywood fruitcakes.
Nowaday's animation industry became such a pathetic and shamefull monstruosity, that guys like Miyazaki are forced to get back in the game again and again. If the animation industry could develope new trends and talents nobody would be so interested in a Miyazaki production. The poor state of the actual industry turns the animation fans towards these old and tired legends.
What about when Walt Disney died?
Then Pixar was created years later
Never heard about the Company Trigger didnt ya?
Seriously. Someone needs to watch Little Witch Academia evidently.
Average short flick was average but had some nice animation?
Just go look at Daicon IV and tell yourself: they made that in their spare time.
Daicon IV made by Yamaga Hiroyuki who doesn't work for Trigger?
What I mean is that LWA is just *fun* anime. Not to mention that it was made as part of the Young Animator Training Project to get new people into working as animators. Trigger works on very random anime projects (new trends) and actively support developing new talent.
>>new trends and talents
Where are the new talents? The ones under age 25.
Implying that Miyzaki isn't an overrated schlock who can effectively capitalize on sentiment and got lucky with like three good movies.
"got lucky with like three good movies" hahahahaha omg hahahahaha AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
whew
That's the funniest thing I've read all day, thanks.
Glad I could be so amusing. Now how about you hop off Miyazaki's dick and actually challenge my statement. Or is the cold realization that most of Miyazaki are just formulaic mundanities that exploit the marriage of an entirely too innocent protagonist with "breathtaking" visuals too sobering for you?
Perhaps you're watching it from the wrong perspective. Miyazaki's movies are for children. The reason he's so popular in the West is because outside of Japan, people are only comfortable with cartoons for kids or for silly adult comedy. Of course they're going to be easy to understand. Of course his protagonists are pure heroes. Of course they appeal directly to your emotions. It doesn't mean he isn't a master at what he does. Adults can consume entertainment meant for too (the Hobbit is a wonderful book, for example) but they shouldn't go into expecting anything too cerebral.
@8:11
I'll grant that most of his films are aimed at children (not that that should be a valid excuse, there's plenty of stimulating children's entertainment). But even in his films that are clearly not for children ("Howl's" and "A Wind Rises") he still shies away from anything but the most vapid investigation. Fuck, I even like "Howl's", but he still made the titular character a lot more sympathetic then he was in the source.
@Chen-04
"Cagliostro" was enjoyable to me mostly because it was interesting to see a different interpretation of Lupin. "Spirited Away" is visually his best work, and Howl's is directorially. Nausicaa was a pretty great manga, but I think the movie does it a disservice with it's bad pacing and rushed plot. "Princess Mononoke" is pretty average, but I dislike it more then I should because it shares it's name with perhaps the best anime ever conceived "Mononoke".
And to all the whimpering dick-riders, I don't even dislike Miyazaki that much. He hasn't made a really bad film, they are just massively overrated (especially in the west, where critics just see "foreign" and "animation" and shit bricks.)
What's the third one?
Castle of Cagliostro, Laputa, Totoro, Kiki, Porco Rosso, Mononoke Hime...I counted more than three good (great) movies.
Besides. Care to tell us how many directors have made more "good" movies than Miyazaki? I doubt that many.
You saying him being overrated is simply that you don´t understand his movies or they´re not your type but that´s just a matter of taste.
If he is one then can you explain why he is one of the rare directors who have ability to do what they want without being tied by schedules, producers, studios etc. etc.?
Yeah, you need to actually list some good movies and not just put mononoke at the end and think readers are too lazy to read the rest.
And let's think of 'good' as something along the lines of 'is liked by virtually every demographic'.
@9:22
Hiroyuki Okiura, Satoshi Kon, and if you ignore the live-action abortion of "Mushi-shi" then Katsuhiro Otomo.
He get's free directorial reign for the same reason James Cameron does: vapid sentimentality sells, and few other directors can evoke more then that than those two.
you, know, nothing, john snonymous.
Well at least this way he isn't refereed to as "Person without a Job".... It seems in Japan there is no such thing as "retired"... Just people without jobs.
people said he's doing it for attention, but u might not know, there might be someone out there ready to stab his family if he didn't withdraw the retirement again.
anything can happen in this world
It's called marketing.
Ghibli's art will continue to be shit. Not change I guess.
So many thumbs down? Ghibli's art is mediocre at best but their plot is quite good... to the kids.
Their lack of dark theme is quite disturbing too but i won't complain, i'll just ignore it.
Lack of dark themes? Princess Mononoke says hi, and it adds to the art part too lol
Spirit Away also say hi, with all the weird creature and human pig.
Grave of the Fireflies says hi, the darkest, most depressing anime movie ever created.
GotF? It's so dark most people's brains refuse to accept exactly how dark it really is, and even then they have the good sense to keep quiet about it.
Neonie must be a retard and needs medical attention like euthanasia.
Neonie must be a retard(i'm not addressing to anybody but him/her/Zerg and needs medical attention like euthanasia.
Miya whats his name is overrated
Being right doesn't make it ok to be a dick. Downvotes well deserved, regardless of the validity of the comment.
18:21
that movie didn't even phase me. in fact I found it amusing, that they changed the poop onigiri into dirt onigiri.
this wad i called successful trolling.
Dude's got more drama sales than the Kardashian's, and to be honest it's no surprise he can get away with this..
What you call marketing, we call trolling.
Could also be a bargaining ploy. Or, maybe the guy is exhausted after the projects, and really feels like retiring at the time, but thinks better after a bit of a rest.
Oh, who am I kidding. The guy's a master troll and we know it. :P
He can go on troiling as much as he wants...
At this rate I think it's a good luck charm of his for Ghibli's future films.
Him and Kojima are playing retirement chicken.
Great.
Now he can make Porco Rosso 2 like he said...
Shameless marketing at its finest.
The real question is how many more times can he get away with it before his reputation goes to crap.
Hasn't his reputation gone to crap?
for what?
for talking shit i gues.
or for making shit
top kek
you're probably thinking of his son, whom directed tales of earthsea
Any flak Miyazaki-Sensei gets for not retiring when he says he will is more than offset by the quality of his movies.
Also, he sent a katana to D*sney with the warning "NO CUTS" when he allowed them to release one of his movies in the US, which is awesome enough on its own that he can go into and out of retirement as often as he likes.
Holy shit, he did what?? He went from Nice Wise Grandpa to Badass in my book!
That's true. After Disney ****ed up Ponyo, he said NO MORE CUTS!
Correction: it's how many times he can get away with it before he REALLY dies.
Miyazaki's reputation pretty much can't go to crap at the moment...I mean really...he could get away with pretty much whatever he wanted to do at his age and with as much success as hes had.