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[–] StarManta 111 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] sk1nnyjeans 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah exactly. I know the guy won’t live forever, but I feel like he’s fallen into a “boy who cried wolf” situation where people will continue to doubt the truth in this kind of statement from him.

[–] Lenins2ndCat 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't care. If he makes another movie, good. If he doesn't, sad.

Storytelling is worse off without him. And the anime industry will have one more of its old marxists that built the 90s gone.

[–] zzzz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still going to watch it, though.

[–] sk1nnyjeans 4 points 1 year ago

Same here! And then a small part of me will be hoping/waiting for the next one.

[–] Nomadiscussion 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was his previous"final" film?

[–] MarigoldPuppyFlavors 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember hearing it about The Wind Rises. There may have been others.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other movies after The Wind Rises were just Ghibli productions, but not Miyazaki directed.

[–] cyd 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Princess Mononke, Spirited Away, Ponyo, and The Wind Rises were all at one time his final films.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Princess Mononke

Seriously? I remember watching this in primary school around 2000.

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mononoke*

And, watch it again in Japanese with fan subs. A lot was changed for the US audiences, and it's a better film before the censorship. (eg. The little village girl who says goodbye to Ashitaka early in the film is his "sister" in the English version, but was originally an ardent admirer who, in those few shared moments, stoically comes to terms with her future without him and gifts him the crystal pendant as a token of her memory. Which is a far more poignant scene than his little sister sending him off, by orders of magnitude — to say nothing of the quality it imbues the later scene when he gifts it to San. I've no idea why they blunted the concept, and hope they don't fuck up future Ghibli films.) Also, though US voice acting in anime has come a long way from the not-even-half-assed drek of the 80s-90s, the emotive content of the Japanese audio is superb, even without understanding the words themselves.

[–] cyd 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, he's been retiring for the last twenty years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, as with bands reuniting for another FINAL album, it sort of cheapens the finality of both productions for whatever that's worth.

As a side note; I freaking LOVED The Wind Rises, more than most Ghibli fans it feels like. My father is a retired aircraft loadmaster so I've had a soft spot for aviation since I was a child, but being an absolute commie, liberal, beta-cuck, that appreciation was tempered over time with the reality of the military industrial complex. I felt targeted directly by that movie.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Aw man, I didn't even know about this. As a semi-avid Ghibli fan in my youth, this sparks joy and I can't wait to watch it ❤️

[–] soupspoon 25 points 1 year ago

I would have been glad for as many final tours as Slayer wanted, and I feel the same way about Miyazaki and his movies

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have no idea what this is about, and I'm going to try to keep it that way until I get a chance to watch.

[–] hark 13 points 1 year ago

Isn't this essentially the marketing? The yet another claim of a final film, I mean.

[–] hombre_fundido 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hayao Miyazaki: "This is my final film."

Also, Hayao Miyazaki: "I'm making another film."

[–] Gatopardo 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] skizzles 11 points 1 year ago

The Boy and The Heron

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Something about Miyazaki is giving us the bird

[–] Nublets 10 points 1 year ago

I'm just as sad as I was for his last final film :,(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm ok with no marketing. But how about a release date in Germany? I'll probably get spoilerd way before I found out when and where I can watch it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Glad to see this, will definitely keep an eye out for it!

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