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The Hayao Miyazaki Sequences That Changed Animators’ Lives
After 12 films, 60 years, and countless drawings, these are the moments his devotees can’t forget.
Mei goes through the tunnel, deep into the world of pure heart and fantasy imagination, finds the giant Totoro, and has no fear — just crawls up on him and then takes a nap, falls asleep, and then wakes up back home. Rebecca Sugar: Working on Steven Universe, our character designer, Danny Hynes, used to love to do something he called “threat of activation” — which was inspired by what we would see in a lot of Ghibli films, but particularly in Kiki’s. That to me is the biggest influence: A man can be a representation of Japan and anime in a way that’s authentic to Japanese audiences, yet the whole world claims him as a beloved creator because his work is so universal in its themes and emotions.
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