Talk:Hayao Miyazaki

Personal life

I'd like to make a few suggestions for the "Personal life" section. Firstly, it primarily describes Miyazaki's relationship with Goro and says very little about other aspects of his life. For instance, his relationship with his wife, Akemi, could be expanded and include more information about her, since she doesn't have her own article in English yet. In addition to being colleagues at Toei, she served as the president of his private office, Nibariki, and they've co-authored a book together. I'll include a few sources below.

Secondly, it only covers his relationship with Goro up until 2006, when Earthsea came out. That's nearly 18 years ago. Besides, it focuses on the negative aspects of their relationship, which could be stigmatizing for both of them. They've worked together after Earthsea and seem to be on good terms nowadays. Goro has a successful career and has achieved many things, both with the help of his father and despite his criticisms.

Sources about Akemi:

1) Anime she worked on

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=3309 http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~rst/rabo/filmo/Slist1.html http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~rst/rabo/filmo/Slist2.html http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~rst/rabo/filmo/Slist4.html

There's a page for Akemi's filmography on Anime News Network, but I was told it's user-generated, so it might not be a reliable source. The other links are from the Takahata Isao Miyazaki Hayao Sakuhin Kenkyujo (Institute of Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki Films), which is maintained by Seiji Kano, a film researcher and university lecturer. The main issue with this source is that the staff credits only include the names of staff members and not their roles. Some of the works in the ANN list are missing there too.

2) Nibariki presidency

https://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2010/06/look-at-miyazakis-pig-house-nibariki.html https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hn7y-mur/mononoke/monotopic.htm

3) Books she wrote and illustrated

- Totoro no Umareta Tokoro (Where Totoro Was Born) with Hayao Miyazaki https://www.ghibli.jp/info/012865/ https://www.iwanami.co.jp/totoro/

- Goro to Keisuke - Okaa-san no Ikuji Enikki (Goro and Keisuke: Mom's Childcare Illustrated Diary) http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~rst/rabo/filmo/bunken.html https://ghibli.jpn.org/books/goro-keisuke/

4) Her dedicated Japanese article with more information and sources

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%94%B0%E6%9C%B1%E7%BE%8E 191.54.172.43 (talk) 23:47, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Can someone fix my Del Toro 2024 cite?

This cite system is Greek to me. I have the info down, but not the system. Thanks to all.

Have a good one! ReddlSKye (talk) 00:10, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Looks like it was just the incorrect year in the full ref (2023 instead of 2024). Thanks for adding the info! – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 00:37, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

About the unreliable sources tag

Dani Cavallaro's publications have been designated as generally unreliable sources in this discussion at the reliable sources noticeboard. Citations to her work can be replaced with more high-quality ones or removed, and the tag can be taken off once complete. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 19:59, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

I suppose this was probably inevitable. Thanks for your work in tagging relevant articles and notifying talk pages. I've gone through and replaced all refs here; I'll try to do more at other pages when I can. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 02:09, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Rhain. Yeah, there were some serious issues brought up with her work, and the only way of reconciling that with our guidelines was to get rid of all citations to her bibliography. I'd greatly appreciate your help with tagging and cleaning up the many articles on this list that need the same treatment. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:17, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Hidetaka Miyazaki

@Rhain: You really don't feel like this could cause confusion for people not that familiar with either when searching? ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 14:13, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Personally, I don't think so; "Hayao" and "Hidetaka" aren't that similar besides the letter H. There are several other people with the surname Miyazaki too (including one other "H Miyazaki"), and I don't think those are worth clarifying here either. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 22:20, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

"Views" section

In Turning Point he said: "Even now, I still believe that there is something with greater meaning, beyond the individual. And I don’t intend to that he doesn't intend to imply being left-wing or right-wing, in a political context." And in Starting Point: "As I was trying to complete Nausicaä, I experienced a change in my thinking that some people might regard as a political sell-out. It’s because I clearly abandoned Marxism. You might say I had to abandon it, but it wasn’t easyto decide that Marxism was a mistake, that Marxist materialism was all wrong, that I had to look at the world in a different way." In there he also expressed contempt agianst Mao Zedong.

I am a bit skeptical about that Liberation (which is left clearly beyond centre-left, so not really neutral) article in French where he supposedly says that he is still deeply influenced by communism (I think the correct thing to say that it was his ideal when he was younger). Most his films have animistic themes that have a strong contradiction with Marxistic materialism, so I think the word "appreciation" should be changed. In that article he doesn't criticize Soviet Union's political system but practical "real" socialism in general. Also the source that describes him as left-wing is Chinese, so definetly not neutral. If nowadays he identifies as left-wing (in 00s he didn't), there should be a better source for it.

I think it will be good if a registered user more involved in this article makes these two sentences more accurate. 2602:FFE4:C09:109:0:0:0:D101 (talk) 18:23, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this up, and for doing so eloquently and concisely. I've made some changes to the § Views section, including some that you've raised. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 00:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for a reply, you made the section better. But a sentence ("he felt he had abandoned his Marxist values while creating Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind as he felt Nausicaä's status in an elite class did not affect her class consciousness,...") is still slightly incorrect because he clearly abandoned Marxism, it was not a feeling. 2602:FFE4:C09:109:0:0:0:D101 (talk) 21:48, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

I think I was concerned about using Wikipedia's voice to make that statement (though I should have used "said" in the first instance, not "felt"), but I think the latter half of the sentence makes it clear that his abandonment of Marxism is his own analysis, not ours, so I've rephrased. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 22:37, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Ok, everything is fine now. 2602:FFE4:C09:109:0:0:0:D101 (talk) 23:31, 2 December 2024 (UTC)