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Message: [QUOTE="Viviana Santos, post: 177409, member: 15344"] I honestly think it's pretty shitty that when Tezuka died in 1989, unlike other artists who paid tribute to Tezuka and his legacy and impact on the industry, Miyazaki simply decided to criticize him and his work only a few days after he died, which I honestly find incredibly cruel in my opinion. [automerge]1745099533[/automerge] He also said that Tezuka ruined the anime industry and that he is to blame for the fact that the industry in general mistreats its animators and why anime has limited and low budget animation. [HR][/HR] Most startling are Miyazaki’s negative remarks about Osamu Tezuka which were published in Comic Box shortly after Tezuka’s death in 1989. Anticipating that the magazine would be full of praise for the “father of manga” and “godfather of anime”, Miyazaki voices his dissatisfaction with many of Tezuka’s animated works. While Miyazaki knows that Tezuka’s style – particularly his manga from the period 1945-1955 – influenced him greatly when he was a young artist starting out, he was not a fan of Tezuka’s animation. He found it too pessimistic and even expresses having felt disgust when he watched films like [I]Mermaid [/I](1964), [I]The Drop [/I](1965), [I]Tales of a Street Corner[/I] (1962), [I]Pictures at an Exhibition[/I] (1966), and [I]Cleopatra [/I](1970). Miyazaki even bemoans the fact that [I]Astro Boy[/I] set the bar so very low in terms of cost – meaning that anime productions ever since have suffered from low budgets. He believes that TV anime was destined to start in Japan with or without Tezuka: “Without Tezuka, the industry might have started two or three years later. And then I could have relaxed a bit and spent a little longer working in the field of feature animation, using more traditional techniques. But that’s all irrelevant now” (196). [/QUOTE]

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