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Meet and Greet with Goro Miyazaki

He has always been a workaholic and was almost never found at home, leaving very little time left for my mother and me. I think she endured many difficulties compared with most housewives.

In Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, both the direction and the story are very standard as an anime movie should be. I wanted to add something different into my Gedo Senki and make it different, such as adding what's happening around youngsters nowadays; it was something that only I could do.

Mr. Hisaishi has been working with my father for a long time, but to me, he is not an easy person to work with, for both he and my father are old, and while two old men can work together with ease, I like having a more youthful working force. In the end, I chose Tamiya Terashima for Gedo Senki, who is less stubborn and more willing to take advice from the director.

Sounds a lot like Shinji and his dad.

BTW was that report by Dormcat? I think I remember that name from Protoculture Addicts.

(Negative comments on Goro Miyazaki)

That's a good analogy which didn't come into my mind (I've watched Evangelion for... 10 minutes or so).

Wow, you really dislike him.

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That's a good analogy which didn't come into my mind (I've watched Evangelion for... 10 minutes or so).

It doesn't get any better after that.

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Wow, you really dislike him.

I just think he sounds conceited for a guy who's only able to shoot his first movie because of his dad.

It's not what you know, its who you know :p

Without my knowledge, he summoned the animation team and told them “you have been working behind schedule and will never be able to catch the premiere, so why not just drop it and hold a strike?” He kept suggesting that the animation staff quit working on the project; I didn't know it until much later. As a father, he never supported me becoming an anime director like him, and that's probably the reason he is always in my way. However, as a creator, it is natural to slow down the progress of your opponent with every possible mean.

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Without my knowledge, he summoned the animation team and told them “you have been working behind schedule and will never be able to catch the premiere, so why not just drop it and hold a strike?” He kept suggesting that the animation staff quit working on the project

So do you rather he goes in with the mentalily that 'my dad's brilliant, I pale in comparison' and let him be a lap dog to his dad?

He has worked with the people he has supposedly 'badmouthed', so I think he has a right to air his opinion (whether that changes your opinion of him is completely upto you).

but if someone is difficult to work with, then you don't work with them.

What it looks like to me is that Goro could have seriously lost face if the movie significantly failed to meet deadlines. Hayao could have been trying to give his son an "out" by having the rest of the production staff take the blame.

That's a good analogy which didn't come into my mind (I've watched Evangelion for... 10 minutes or so).

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That's a good analogy which didn't come into my mind (I've watched Evangelion for... 10 minutes or so).

How come? Is that a case where you heard so much about it beforehand that it turned you off from actually watching it? I'm curious.

dormcat: I'm not sure it was Suzuki's choice, since he doesn't make those decisions. I'm assuming Hayao is still looking for a successor to Ghibli, which is the reason he gave Goro a shot.

No, I simply don't have a chance. None of my friends had it when it was popular in the late 90s, and by the time I'm capable to acquire it myself (either legally or illegally) I have no interest to sit through 26 episodes of a mecha series (something I'm never highly interested) with a puny protagonist filled with angst, not to mention that I already knew the entire plot though many sources.