Sublime

From a senior of mine in the industry, I once heard that when Tezuka was working on the production of the Saiyūki (Alakazam the Great) animation feature, he reportedly advocated inserting an episode showing the hero monkey, Songokū, coming back and finding his girlfriend (also a monkey) dead. But there was never any reason for the girl monkey to be

Hokusai Manga (1814),

The manga format is so readily comprehended that it has become Japanese culture’s common denominator. That is the peril faced by Japanese culture.

Tezuka-san was a rival against whom I struggled This article is supposed to be for a special issue devoted to Osamu Tezuka, so I’m assuming there will be a loud chorus of other people mourning his passing, and I do not intend to add my voice to it. I think I have probably been far more deeply involved with Mr. Tezuka than with the gang who go about

—You have always said that what you want to make is “films” and not “anime.” But what is popular abroad seems to be anime. What do you see as the problem with anime? MIYAZAKI: The major source for Japanese animation is manga, whose greatest characteristic is its method of expression centered on emotions. In order to express emotions, space and time