I truly feel like The Boy and The Heron is Miyazaki’s apology letter to his son Goro.
Not in a “your my precious son and I love you so much, here a movie to make you for my failures” kind of way
but in a “I’ve built this incredible empire and legacy that’s given magic to millions of people, and in that time you’ve lived in that same world, and so naturally it’s expected that you’d take it over in my place, but I know that you’ll never succeed me or that you’ll be able to recreate the magic. This magical world will die with me, this company will die with me, and that’s okay. You don’t have to be me.”
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just… Goro Miyazaki starting his animation career with having a son kill his father, the king of a kingdom where magic is disappearing, and run away and Hayao (possibly ending) his career with a young boy refusing to take on his family’s powerful legacy over a magical world, knowing the world would die without him in favor of not abandoning his family and choosing to live contentedly in the mundane world…
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Earwig has yet to learn that sometimes she will tease the wrong person and that no amount of joking will save her. Time to meet god, little one.
It always strikes me how Earwig can just be lowkey rude and invasive to everyone at the orphanage. She's so comfortable being a little shit, love that for her,, Adjusting to her new home must have been a little tough at times.
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From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
Directed by Goro Miyazaki and written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa
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Chatty AF 198: The Boy and the Heron Retrospective
Vrai, Cy, and Toni discuss Miyazaki Hayao’s latest (last?) movie, its callbacks to his career and themes, and Robert Pattinson.
Episode Information
Date Recorded: December 29th 2023
Hosts: Vrai, Cy, Toni
Episode Breakdown
0:00:00 Intros
0:01:50 Favorite Ghibli film
0:07:08 Sub or dub
0:12:18 The title
0:15:52 SPOILER WARNING
0:16:57 Summary
0:18:06 It’s an isekai
0:22:33 What is this sekai?
0:27:39 WWII
0:29:22 Takahata Isao
0:30:58 Miyazaki Goro
0:33:20 The birds
0:37:40 The Wind rises
0:43:34 Himi
0:46:59 Natsuko
0:55:43 Mahito
1:04:22 Outro
Further Reading
‘The Boy and the Heron’: How GKIDS Pulled Off One of the Most Important Dubs in Anime History
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Look, I like Ghibli stuff but I'm not super involved in the fandom so maybe someone more knowledgeable has spoken about this BUT.....the way some of y'all talk about Hayao's son Goro is flat out gross and weird as fuck. You absolutely NEED to take Hayao off of whatever pedestal you've put him on and stop making your funny little memes about how his mistreatment of his son/family is OK because you don't like Goro's films. This is just like basic decency???
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