Tangent: when looking up Mamoru Oshii I found an interview where he compared the work culture at Studio Ghibli to a communist dictatorship (“communism is when capitalism”), because people of the 1960s “Anpo generation” (like Miyazaki) have “no morals” when they believe their cause is just…

  • AstroStelar [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Were you able to look into the book that got cited? The screenshot about falling in love with Bai-Niang says that it was when Miyazaki was in high school, so we can ignore that one. The documentary quote sounds in the same vein as that to me: that in high school he had girlfriends of that age. There could have still been a problematic age gap there, though, but who knows.

    My biggest question was what kind of love we are talking about here, to me it sounded more like platonic or one-sided romantic love rather than outright sexual, but it is just vibes talking here.

    Sidenote: I find it weird how much weight is given to the verb “love” sometimes: it gets used very loosely when you say you love spaghetti or your family, but suddenly when you say it to a close friend everyone makes a big deal out of it. My aroace ahh is showing here lol

      • AstroStelar [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The book is apparently written by the same Mamoru “Studio Ghibli is like the Kremlin” Oshii, who is most well-known as the creater of Ghost in the Shell.

        From that same interview I found, I didn’t get the impression however that he would just make shit up about him and try to ruin his career, he said it would be a loss if Miyazaki (and another Ghibli figure) stopped making films. The book itself, going by reviews, seems to be even-handed about his short experiences at Ghibli.