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Anime and Manga Industry Interviews

posted 9/26/2005 1:59:16 PM | Leave a comment | Stumble It!

Tokyo Foundation is working on a 'Super Cool' project to bring interviews with some of the industry greats to the English audience. They currently have 10 interviews up including:

Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Oshii, Leiji Matsumoto, Shinji Shimizu, Monkey Punch, Ikue Otani, Chiba Tetsuya, Masako Nozawa, Hiromi Seki, Takao Saito

(source: ANN)

Also of interest, the Guardian recently conducted an interview with Hayao Miyazaki, apparently his first in 10 years, to promote the opening of Howl's Moving Castle in the UK on Sept 23.

Miyazaki commented a bit on how hand-drawn cell animation is dying.

"If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era."

Sadly, Miyazaki's works still aren't appreciated as they should be in the US. Can you imagine telling Miyazaki to cut part of his film? He says

"Although I did go to New York to meet this man, this Harvey Weinstein, and I was bombarded with this aggressive attack, all these demands for cuts." He smiles. "I defeated him."

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Anime and Manga Industry Interviews

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