>>4707880Ghibli will soon stop producing and they will become a franchise management company with a few ads and other odd jobs on the side. This was strongly considered by Suzuki years ago, and Miyazaki pretty much knew the studio would sink after his death. I think this doesn't even have to do with Goro, though maybe if his father communicated a bit more with him, the studio might've had someone to take the torch. But maybe if Miyazaki wasn't such a hard ass, those movie wouldn't have happened. Maybe Miyazaki just knew that the times were changing and it was all inevitable. He says that a lot after all.
If you ask people why Miyazaki's movies are so good they all say "because muh pastel colors and good animation", not because it's the only good filmmaking in animation today with an ounce of respect for its audience, or because of the kind of stories it tells. It's really all about aesthetics. What was attractive to the masses has been absorbed by now, so now you have painterly backgrounds and other ghibliesque looking shit, people are happy with none of the content. The studio makes most of its money from merchandise of Totoro, which in turn is parasitized by Chinese bootleggers. They tried to fight it by enforcing copyrights as hard as they could, but this kind of economy is dead. The distribution with Disney was probably on shit terms since they're part of a package they normally would've never adhered to. The museum just isn't enough to keep the animation business afloat. Also animators are dime a dozen but imagine sifting through the hundreds of hentai addicted halfwits. God, Miyazaki must be incredibly resilient to continue working in such a garbage timeline.
