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Fans Vote on Their Favorite Anime Directors Post-Miyazaki

In the post-Miyazaki era, moviegoers are wondering which director can take the impossibly impressive mantle left behind. The poll website Goo Ranking decided to find out by asking 8,585 fans which anime director is their favorite now that Hayao Miyazaki has retired. Surprisingly, Miyazaki's son, Goro Miyazaki, was the number one choice despite mixed critical reception of his works Tales from Earthsea and From Up on Poppy Hill. The elder Miyazaki's friend, star in The Wind Rises, and renowned director of Neon Genesis Evangelion Hideaki Anno took second place followed by Mamoru Hosoda, director of Wolf Children and Summer Wars.

Also an interesting side note: No female directors made the list.

Top 20 Favorite Directors Post-Miyazaki

Rank	Director	Works
1	Goro Miyazaki	Tales from Earthsea, From Up on Poppy Hill
2	Hideaki Anno	Neon Genesis Evangelion
3	Mamoru Hosoda	Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
4	Mamoru Oshii	Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers
5	Katsuhiro Otomo	Akira, Steamboy, Combustible
6	Makoto Shinkai	5 Centimeters Per Second, The Garden of Words, Voices of a Distant Star
7	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Gundam franchise original creator
8	Gisaburô Sugii	Astro Boy, Touch, Nine
9	Hiroyuki Morita	The Cat Returns, Bokurano
10	Goro Taniguchi	Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
11	Seiji Mizushima	Fullmetal Alchemist, Shaman King
12	Tsutomu Mizushima	Genshiken, Blood-C, Girls und Panzer
13	Akiyuki Shinbo	Madoka Magica, Monogatari series, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
14	Yutaka Yamamoto	Lucky Star, Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, Senyū.
15	Keiichi Hara	Shin chan, Colorful
16	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	The Secret World of Arrietty
17	Junichi Sato	Sailor Moon, Aria the Animation, Kaleido Star
18	Tatsuyuki Nagai	anohana, A Certain Scientific Railgun, My-HiME
19	Hiroyuki Okiura	Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade, A Letter to Momo
20	Other

Yara-on!