Hosoda hopes to surpass anime legend Miyazaki

Don't jump the gun!

Mamoru Hosoda is like my newest favorite anime director in a post Miyazaki world and I've loved most of his movies though I wasn't quite as impressed by The Boy and the Beast. Summer Wars is still my favorite of his films. I wish Hosoda all the luck in the world but I hope he doesn't become as overly cynical and anti anime like Miyazaki and a lot of the legendary anime directors of the past have become. It just always seems like whenever anime directors become huge and famous they start attacking all modern anime and then it seems like their works start dropping in quality when they become overly cynical like that. I don't want to see that happen to Hosoda too.

Miyazaki is right about nearly everything he says about modern culture: It's generally trash.