His films are visually breathtaking and box-office gold. But critics say he reuses the same tragic-romance formula while Miyazaki built whole philosophies. Fair?
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Add your commentShinkai makes the same movie every time: pretty teens, a disaster, a longing stare at the sky. Gorgeous wallpaper, recycled soul.
Miyazaki builds worlds and philosophies. Shinkai builds moods and music videos. Both valid, but only one is the 'master'.
Heir to the throne? No. Builder of his own throne next to it? Absolutely. The comparison itself is lazy.
Formula or not, I've cried at three of his films. Miyazaki made me think; Shinkai made me feel. I need both.
Calling Shinkai 'no heart' is wild when his films make millions of people sob. He just speaks a different emotional language than Miyazaki.
Miyazaki earns the magic slowly. Shinkai bolts an orchestra to a sunset and calls it a climax. Effective, but not the same craft.
Shinkai's backgrounds are more detailed than real life and that's actually part of the problem — the people feel less real than the clouds.
The man single-handedly keeps the theatrical anime film alive globally. Show some respect for what that's done for the medium.
Your Name, Weathering With You, Suzume — yes they rhyme, but so do all of Miyazaki's 'girl meets magic' films. Double standard much?
He's not the new Miyazaki, he's the FIRST Shinkai. Stop measuring artists against a legend instead of on their own terms.
RADWIMPS doing half the emotional lifting in his films is the most honest criticism on this whole thread.
Shinkai is what happens when a genius animator hasn't yet become a genius writer. He's getting there. Suzume was the closest.
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