While it Studio Ghibli continues to celebrate the success of The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazakiis the same director and founder of the Studio who, certainly no stranger to controversial statements, stated that “the golden age of anime is over.” This while we know that he is working on the new anime film from Studio Ghibli.
Miyazaki was recently awarded the honorary Palme d’Or, and his son Goro Miyazaki accepted the award for him. Talking with 20 Minutes in France, Goro Miyazaki reported some comments his father had made regarding the award.
Miyazaki said: “He was delighted, but believes that the golden age of anime is over. He feels that this award symbolizes the end of his career.” Miyazaki noted how things are starting to change with the format, and that’s something anime fans may need to consider moving forward.
Is this the end of the golden age of anime? Despite the growth of the sector, according to the founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, this is the case
In fact, the demand for television anime and feature films continues to grow. There are so many anime projects out there and in development that it’s actually hard to keep up with it all. But it is precisely in this regard that Miyazaki notes that this may just be a reflection of a “golden age” that will essentially act as a “bubble” of souls that may burst at some point in the future.
Speaking about the future of animation, Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuk said: “I think in the end, whether you do it by hand or on the computer, you have to have an artistic attitude or you can’t do anything good. This is the way I see things.”
“However, there are some things that only computer graphics can do, and the same goes for hand drawing. To be clear, let’s take this film as an example. The way we made a human appear from inside a bird could only be done by hand. Computer graphics couldn’t do it. So I think each of them will develop in their own way.”
