How Anime Legend Hayao Miyazaki’s Son Squandered Studio Ghibli’s Legacy

It is difficult to overstate the legacy of storytelling and artistry that Hayao Miyazaki has built over the years as a director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio. Miyazaki has an incredible ability to manifest the vague, mythic textures of fantasy into the concrete vocabulary of animation. He and his team did with pencil and gouache what Italo Calvino did with words in Invisible Cities — the flash of perfect symbols render worlds so full it’s almost heart