Look, half the internet acts like Miyazakiās some ancient sage who speaks for all artists just because he saw that god-awful crawling-zombie AI demo back in 2016 and said it was an insult to life itself. Fair enough, the thing was disgusting, but the guy barely touches the internet, Ghibli tried Twitter for one year and noped out like it kicked their dog, and heās spent decades running his studio like a guy who thinks electricity is suspicious. Heās exiled people for using tablets, canned his own kid, and throws tantrums over digital paint while Disneyās in the back room teaching computers to write scripts.
Then youāve got Kyoto Animation on the other side of the planet, paying real salaries, running an in-house school, giving maternity leave, bringing in therapy dogs after someone burned the place down and killed thirty-six of them, and still putting out absolute bangers without crunching anyone to death. Thatās what an actual healthy studio looks like.
Iām not saying Miyazakiās movies donāt hit harder than anything else out there (they do), but letās stop treating one old manās trauma from a single creepy demo like itās the final word on tools forever. The future isnāt grandpas yelling at crayons; itās the places that figure out how to make great art without treating people like garbage. He can keep his pencils. The rest of us will keep moving.