CATDOLL: Is Makoto Shinkai the genius in the history of Japanese animation, surpassing Master Hayao Miyazaki?

The movie version and the Chinese novel version of "Your Name." will soon be introduced to China, and will also be screened in the United States, with the intention of being nominated for an Oscar. Such a popular animation work is constantly being discussed among anime fans.

Recently, a Japanese netizen compared the box office of other animation masters' works when they were Makoto's age, and concluded that "Makoto Shinkai is better than Hayao Miyazaki". This has also sparked a lot of discussion.

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Look at the picture, I did some statistics: Makoto Shinkai, at the age of 43, has already earned a box office of over 20 billion yen (the data on the picture is the previous data) with "Your Name." At the age of 43, Hayao Miyazaki released "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", but the box office was only 1.48 billion yen. In addition, Hideaki Anno's work in the same period only earned 420 million yen, and Mamoru Hosoda's was 4.22 billion yen. In comparison, is Makoto Shinkai the most important figure in the history of Japanese animation box office?

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Miyazaki's is a bit too early. If it were this year, it would not be a problem to break 20 billion yen, right? After all, when "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" is replayed on TV every year, many people watch it. As for Mamoru Hosoda, he is of the same generation as Makoto, but he has been completely surpassed.

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Forget it, "Your Name" is completely hyped. I watched it once, and although the plot is okay, it is definitely not a movie that can attract 20 billion yen. I get tired of it after watching it once. In comparison, "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" feels fresh every year when I watch it.

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To say you surpass Hayao Miyazaki, you have to at least reach the 30 billion yen of "Spirited Away". I don't think Shinkai Makoto's next work will be as popular as it is now. I feel that everyone around me has watched it, just following the trend. Otherwise, it will be at most the level of "The Garden of Words". But Hayao Miyazaki's works, even if no one deliberately hypes them up, can still have a box office explosion, right?

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It's really funny to see you guys upstairs. When Ghibli was still influential, you said that the works of this company were all the same and boring. Now that "Your Name" has come out, you start to say that Ghibli's works are masterpieces... I think these works are great, and we can't just judge heroes by box office. But at least one thing should be clear: Makoto Shinkai can't make the works of Hayao Miyazaki, and vice versa, Hayao Miyazaki can't make the works of Makoto Shinkai. It is precisely because they are not exactly the same people that there are so many good theatrical versions.

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Hayao Miyazaki's strength lies in his ability to continuously produce high-grossing works, while Makoto Shinkai's work has only exploded with this one, and it's hard to say what the future holds. So we still have to pay attention to his future performance.