Director Makoto Shinkai reached worldwide recognition with his film your name., one of the biggest box office successes in Japan's history. With his new movie Suzume on the horizon, Nick and Nicky discuss the director's thematic fixations.
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Really though, for as surprising as Shinkai's sudden rise is from a historical perspective, the ripple effect your name. had on anime films in the years since has been pretty inescapable. Nowadays, every Tom, Dick, and Harry has a story about straight teenagers crying at sunset over some supernatural metaphor for adolescence!
The Garden of Words is my favorite version of that because it's just two people resting from being worn out, and the real sense of weariness makes the conclusion to get back up feel sincere.
I've brought it up several times, but now I will answer. Why does everyone want to see some auteur director pop up out of nowhere? Well, that's because the anime film industry's high turnover is a bad environment for raising capable artists. Ghibli was notorious for chasing people away from the industry. Even people who were proven to be good and competent artists, like Mamoru Hosoda, were chased out of the kingdom of dreams and madness. With few alternatives for stable employment, even those capable of recovering from the experience might've had no choice but to leave the industry entirely, as plenty did. I hope the current trend can keep those who remain from being completely stuck.
Given this information, the fact that a relatively independent studio like CoMix Wave can rise up and grow is inspiring. I can't speak about what the work environment is like there, but I have heard plenty of bad things about the conditions of other studios to know that any competition is welcome. While it'll take more than one director or studio to change the state of the industry, if someone like Shinkai could go from being a nobody to an industry trendsetter, anything is possible.
Though, money's tight this month, so I hope the theater will accept alternative forms of payment.
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