Goro Miyazaki Addresses His Father's Displeasure ...

When word came out that the next Studio Ghibli feature would be a Miyazaki film fans responded with a hearty "Hurray! He's not retiring!" And then it turned out that it would be a film directed by Goro Miyazaki, the son of the famed Hayao, a man whose previous experience mostly involved topiary gardening and the operations of the Ghibli Museum. And then word came out that daddy wasn't real happy with Goro following in his footsteps. Well, Goro has now publicly responded to his father's displeasure by largely refusing to respond to it and asking that people simply judge him by his work, which is a good response, really. I mean, the guy's already cursed to be compared with one of the most famous animaters in the world simply thanks to his name, no point in making it worse by getting in a public scrap with dad ...

You can find a full translation of Goro's response over at Kaiju Shakedown.