Sublime

As I developed into a youth and young adult, I came to realize that I shouldn’t be just a good kid, that I should look at things with my own eyes and have independent ideas. This led me to attempt to turn my back on even my fundamental purity as a child and, combined with the dark time of studying for entrance exams, I came to draw nihilistic gekig

I did not try to make “animation” as we usually think of it, but a manga, or a cartoon film.

Hayao Miyazaki has sometimes been described as “a man with no need for the production process.” Even on the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind animated feature, when I served as producer, he never needed anyone to whip his behind to get him to do any of his work. He participated as a member of our animation staff as if he weren’t worried about the