Studio Ghibli

When the editors of Animage encouraged me to create a manga, I got all excited and, as fate would have it, decided to create my own version of Nausicaä. I am now forced to reflect yet again on why, years ago, I once gave up drawing manga because I felt I lacked talent. At this point, I hope that I can somehow bring this young heroine into a world o

Miyazaki: I tried drawing a variety of weird aircraft, but I wasn’t sure how far I could take the designs. If I had used too many different designs, the world I was trying to depict might have looked too ridiculous. I only fully realized that halfway through the production. If, for example, I had shown a beat-up old aircraft in the shape of a sparr

Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.

Mario Odyssey and Zelda: Breath of the Wild were built by internal studios within the company, each with its own creative directors and game designers. Imagine having hundreds of people Flintstoning to launch a new network—that’s what happens in the world of new consoles. The strategy worked,

the animator must fabricate a lie that seems so real viewers will think the world depicted might possibly exist.

Recently, Miyazaki-san finished drawing Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Reading it, I was moved to tears. This makes me want to ask Miyazaki-san about his views on the environment. People find it very difficult to understand environmental problems from discussions about the ways in which the environment is being destroyed or the fact that the e