Studio Ghibli continues to celebrate the success of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and The Heron, and as Miyazaki is considering work on his next film, he believes that the Golden Age of anime is over.
Miyazaki was recently awarded Honorary Palme d’Or and his son Goro Miyazaki accepted the award for him. While speaking with 20 Minutes in France, Goro Miyazaki related some comments that his father had made about the award.
Miyazaki said: “He was delighted, but he feels that the golden age of anime is over. He feels that this award symbolizes the end of his career.”
As Miyazaki notes how things are beginning to change with the medium, and it’s something anime fans might have to consider heading into the future.
At the same time, anime is more popular now than it’s ever been The demand for TV anime and feature films continues to grow. There are so many anime projects out there and in development, it’s hard to keep up with everything, and there are so many good ones!
In regard to this, Miyazaki notes, this could just be reflective of a “golden age” that will essentially act as a anime “bubble” that could burst at some point in the future.
When previously talking about the future of animation, Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Toshio Suzukisaid: “I think that ultimately, whether you make it by hand or on a computer, you need to have artistic aptitude or you can’t make anything good. That’s how I see things.
“Still, there are some think that only CG can do, and the same is true of hand drawn. To put it simply, take this film as an example. The way we had a human appear from inside of a bird, you could only do that by hand. CG couldn’t handle it. So I think they’ll each develop in their own way.”
What do you think about the current state of anime? Do you think the Golden Age of anime is over?
