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[Slowdive]

Great news.

 

[TissueBox]

Movies is to Miyazaki what not exercising is to my bro.

 

[Spinluck]

Fuck it, I'm in.

 

[Zeus Molecules]

I am overjoyed but I wish he had time to make that porco rosso sequel

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

I don't know how I feel about this. The Wind Rises was the perfect final film for Miyazaki but it also had some moments of poor animation quality (not sure whose fault that was) and some of the loose, messy pacing/story points that come from Miyazaki's process of writing the script as the final animation is being completed.

Come again? The film had excellent mechanical animation and an incredible crowd scene with the earthquake. It certainly doesn't compare poorly against Ghibli's general standard of work. (Though sure, it's not as striking as Takahata's Princess Kaguya.)

 

[Seductivpancakes]

That's cool. Wasn't he also working on a samurai manga?

 

[watershed]

Come again? The film had excellent mechanical animation and an incredible crowd scene with the earthquake. It certainly doesn't compare poorly against Ghibli's general standard of work. (Though sure, it's not as striking as Takahata's Princess Kaguya.)

The shading and coloring is more flat than say Spirited Away which had rich colors and great shading that added depth to the visuals. A lot of the characters also have a loose animated style where they almost don't have structure. You can see it especially in the arms.
And then there are some poor scaling objects and rotating camerawork where it looks like CG wasn't used for some reason. In particular look at the short bus ride near the end of the film when

Spoiler

the main character's wife leaves and his sister arrives moments later

The animation is good but below the standard of Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle.

 

[Team Filler]

The Wind Rises was supposed to be his final work, right? Hopefully he'll come up with something more memorable.

WHAT

The Wind Rises was incredible, that movie broke my heart so much by the end. We should all be so lucky for it to be more memorable.

 

[mcw]

The Wind Rises was supposed to be his final work, right? Hopefully he'll come up with something more memorable.

Different strokes, etc, but The Wind Rises is my favorite of his films.

 

[neoism]

fuck yessss 😮😵😎

 

[B33]

Good.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Time to make Porco Rosso 2 like he planned.

 

[AzureFlame]

The King is back!

Retirement was a mistake, it's nothing but trash.

 

[Derwind]

I need a new Miyazaki film in my life, especially now. Thank God he's back.

 

[Ithil]

I guess you get bored of fishing or whatever it is retired filmmakers do.

 

[DrunkShogun]

Make anime great again. Really hope it turns out well.

 

[Ratrat]

Cool.
Can Takahata come back too?

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

The shading and coloring is more flat than say Spirited Away which had rich colors and great shading that added depth to the visuals. A lot of the characters also have a loose animated style where they almost don't have structure. You can see it especially in the arms.
And then there are some poor scaling objects and rotating camerawork where it looks like CG wasn't used for some reason. In particular look at the short bus ride near the end of the film when

Spoiler

the main character's wife leaves and his sister arrives moments later

The animation is good but below the standard of Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle.

I'm not able to rewatch the whole film right now to try to figure out where your criticisms are coming from, so I'll just say flat shading can be good, loose animation can be (usually is) very good, and leave this collection of well animated scenes from The Wind Rises here. Man, I don't understand how anyone could look at an elaborate, complicated crowd scene like this and think the film's animation was weak, even in comparison to other Ghibli films.

 

[BadWolf]

Amazing news, here's hoping for something epic and 2D.

Something based on his Samurai manga, as others have mentioned, would be sweet.

Wind Rises was great but Princess Kaguya was better imo, I'd love for Takahata to make one more film but I don't think he will be coming out of retirement, and Prince Kaguya was one heck of a note to leave on.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

I'm not able to rewatch the whole film right now to try to figure out where your criticisms are coming from, so I'll just say flat shading can be good, loose animation can be (usually is) very good, and leave this collection of well animated scenes from The Wind Rises here. Man, I don't understand how anyone could look at an elaborate, complicated crowd scene like this and think the film's animation was weak, even in comparison to other Ghibli films.

The Wind Rises is absolutely gorgeous.

For a story set in such a dark part of history, the world feels so bright and pure... it's a world I never want to leave.

Wind Rises was great but Princess Kaguya was better imo, I'd love for Takahata to make one more film but I don't think he will be coming out of retirement, and Prince Kaguya was one heck of a note to leave on.

Kaguya was sad as hell. Left me totally depressed.

 

[pbayne]

Nausicaa part 2. Book it.

 

[TheGameshark]

I had a feeling that retirement was nothing.

 

[ElFly]

retirement was a mistake

 

[Instro]

"Shit I have to hang out with my family? Someone get Takahata on the phone."

 

[Tom Nook]

Filmmakers never retire.

 

[Princess Viola]

2016 redeemed

 

[KonradLaw]

I wish for numerous future un-retirements from Miyazaki

 

[HStallion]

I think he's going to work until he finally passes. Just seems like who he is. That and Ghibli isn't really doing anything without him and Takahata is very old.