Following Studio Ghibli’s latest Oscar win, Mobile Suit Guns creator Yoshiyuki Tomino is encouraging the next generation of Japanese artists to “work hard to crush Miyazaki.”
Studio Ghibli is the famous production studio behind some of Japan’s most beloved animated films, including My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), Princess Mononoke (1997) and many others. On March 10, Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, The Boy and the Heron, took home his second Oscar for best animated feature at the 2024 Academy Awards. During his talk at the Festival 2nd International Animation in Niigata, Yoshiyuki Tomino discussed how Miyazaki’s latest win has set a new “norm” for young people wishing to enter the anime industry, he said. that: “There are manga works that surpass literary works.” . This is the era we are living in. Fans can enjoy anime and manga on one level, but for those who aspire to be experts, it is essential to have a very broad perspective…Director Miyazaki has created an astonishing work surprise and won an Academy Award.”
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Tomino has been a part of the Japanese animation world since 1979, which is when the original Mobile Suit Sword anime series made its television debut. However, Tomino also saw the steady rise of Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, who co-founded the studio with Isao Takahata (Only Today, Grave of the Fireflies) in 1985. According to Tomino, the possibility of a break from Miyazaki’s traditional storytelling methods laid the foundation for him. work apart from other animators. When discussing The Boy and the Heron, he specifically noted that it did not have the standard happy ending expected of most animated productions.
The creator of Gundam said that surpassing Hayao Miyazaki or One Piece is true dedication
Continuing, Tomino urged young animators to follow Ghibli’s example by surpassing them — a goal he himself admitted he had failed at. “Everyone, please try to crush Miyazaki! I can’t do it anymore.” While acknowledging the difficulty of the job, Tomino remains hopeful that Japan’s next generation will rise to the challenge. “Young creators should not use it [this] lightly. You can’t surpass Miyazaki or One Piece if you don’t really give it your all.”
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The 2nd Niigata International Animation Festival began on March 15 and is scheduled to end on March 20. Tomino’s 1988 film, Mobile Suit Gun: Char’s CounterAttack, was screened at the festival on March 16. Other anime projects that Tomino has directed include Reconguista in G, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam F91 and Mobile Suit Victory Gundam. It is known that Tomino is currently working on another project titled “Himiko Yamato”.
Mobile SuitGundam: Char’s CounterAttack is now available to stream on Crunchyroll. Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron is scheduled to return to theaters in North America starting March 22.
Mobile SuitGundam: Char’s counterattack
Amuro Ray and Char Aznable settled their rivalry once and for all during the Second Neo Zeon War.
Release date March 12, 1988
Cast Shuichi Ikeda, Toru Furuya, Nozomu Sasaki, Koichi Yamadera
Running time 119 minutes
Characters by Yoshiyuki Tomino
Production company dawn
Source: Mantan Web via Animehunch