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7jaws7
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Kunihiko Ikuhara is probably someone to keep an eye on
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KH91
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Justin wins by mention Hosoda.
When I see Dai Sato, I am reminded of the other Dai...Dai Shogun. 
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Angel M Cazares
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I was not going to respond to the notion that Miyazaki retiring marks a dramatic before and after for the anime industry, but since the article wants to know my opinion...
Hayao Miyazaki is without a doubt a fantastic and one of the most important anime directors of all time, but he is not the only great director. While Miyazaki was still active Kunihiko Ikuhara, Shinichiro Watanabe, Satoshi Kon and Hideaki Anno became amazing directors, but, with the unfortunate exception of Kon, these directors are still active and continuing to produce work. Aside from those legendary directors, younger directors like Tomohiko Itou, Tetsurou Araki and Rie Matsumoto have also done great stuff. There might never be another anime director as influential and prolific as Hayao Miyazaki, but the industry is in good hands with upcoming and talented directors. Relax, the world is not going to end without Miyazaki. |
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Apollo-kun
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Tsutomu Mizushima would be the first one that comes to mind. While he's been around for a while, he's still surprisingly underrated and unsung despite the uniform quality of his output. He's one of the best directors in the biz currently, and certainly one of the most unique from a stylistic standpoint, not to mention the diversity of projects he's taken on.
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relyat08
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I concur fully. The industry is brimming with all kinds of talent. There are so many good creators out there right now that I have a hard time keeping track of just half of them. We don't need another Miyazaki, but if one shows up, that's awesome too! But anyway, a few guys I am watching very very closely are Kiyotaka Oshiyama, Mitsuo Iso, Takahiro Omori and Masashi Ishihama among most of the others that have already been mentioned. And yeah, there are a ton more, those are just the 4 that popped into my head right now. |
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Megiddo
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No mention for Yasuhiro Yoshiura is rather disappointing. Always good to see Yuasa of course. Hope he can get another TV anime project soon.
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jroa
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On the surface, Hideaki Anno seems to have peaked with Neon Genesis Evangelion and has apparently moved on to a bunch of non-anime projects, but it would be extremely interesting if he actually came back to do something completely new for this industry after the Rebuild films wrap up (hopefully by 2018, 2020 or so?). In other words, it all depends on what does Anno truly want to accomplish at this point in his life and/or what role he really wishes to perform.
That said, I think there's a very clear trend to highlight those directors who have some background as animators, as opposed to those without it. Naturally, animation is primarily a visual medium, so this isn't too surprising of an observation. |
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AnimeLordLuis
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I agree to be on the lookout for Kunihiko Ikuhara especially since other than Sailor Moon all of his series have been original works and after Directing Yuri Kuma Arashi he has proven that there are no limits to his creative genius.
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Agent355
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I don't always pay attention to who's directing the anime I watch. Often I feel the source material creators (mangaka, light novel or novel author, original scenario or scriptwriter) and artists like character designers have the most impact on the show, and as long as the particular director does a competent job, it doesn't make that much of a difference who directs the series or individual episodes. This is especially true if the show doesn't rely much on action.
But some directors have a certain style and signature look that makes me wake up and take notice. In the last few years, the newer directors that really stand out to me are Rie Matsumoto and Masaaki Yuasa. Matsumoto's Kyousogiga series was an artistic tour de force, and in Blood Blockade Battlefront she took a decent manga and gave it more personality through fantastic directing, editing, and soundtrack choices. I suspect she wasn't mentioned because she hasn't done any movies, but I wouldn't mind if she stuck to series. She's really good at it, and I want to see more! Masaaki Yuasa has a great freeform style and made the most interesting sports anime I have ever seen. The game sequences in Ping Pong are electric. |
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Lord Dcast
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Huh, surprised nobody's started fighting over whether Hosuda's the next Miyazaki or not.
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Levitz9
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I don't want to seem cynical, but there's one thing I never liked about Miyazaki that sadly has tainted every filmmaker following in his footsteps: emotional glurge.
All of Miyazaki's movies have whimsical magical friendships, and everyone else is tripping over each other trying to re-create that kind of whimsy, however well (Summer Wars' extended family) or poorly (Hosada's tone-deaf praise of motherhood) they can. It's tiresome; so many of these friendships are put into some serious melodrama that just feels so manufactured. Makoto Shinkai is the perfect example: I've never been able to tolerate 5 cm Per Second or Voices from a Distant Star because they try to wallop me over the head with FEELZ like a fanfic writer on three bags of sugar. It's as if every filmmaker decided one year they wanted to be Quentin Tarantino, so all we got are gritty, bloody action films that are all trying to be Pulp Fiction. Sometimes they manage to be entertaining on their own right, sometimes they don't. I think the late Kon was the only guy who got it right, by virtue of not being Miyazaki. He didn't wow us with magical landscapes, he made us wet ourselves with Perfect Blue. Sure, he made some beautiful works, but they felt human: the cast of Tokyo Godfathers had dirt under their fingernails. Paprika was a woman who smiled to mask a lot of issues she didn't want to have to deal with. I don't give a crap about how pretty rural Japan is with weird planes flying over it. I just feel like I'm being spoken down to with how people make glurge-y anime films--and with the way things are, it's either Miyazaki-light or navel-gazing basset hounds courtesy of Oshii. |
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Dian Z
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Just please, let these directors keep making new works.
I don't know how the funding things work or affect the production of new anime films/series, but I'm afraid that's one of the reasons why Masaaki Yuasa isn't as productive as other directors (maybe it's just me, though). |
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Blackiris_
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Yes, I would have loved to see him being mentioned. It's great they mentioned Ishida, though. He and the Colorido staff show great promise! |
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penguintruth
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Sayo Yamamoto may be one to keep an eye on. Both Michiko and Hatchin and The Woman Called Fujiko Mine were excellent.
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Lemonchest
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I wouldn't mind seeing Soubi Yamamoto getting some feature length directorial work. Her Kono Danshi series is fun & she seems to be one of the few BL associated animators who's stories avoid the usual tragic &/or funny depiction of gay romance.
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