Styles and techniques are always evolving and we have to move on,” Hosoda confirms via an interpreter during a recent visit to Los Angeles. It’s really too bad that it’s going to be gone, but that’s just the way life is. ![]() ![]() Everyone is moving on to digitalizing or doing backgrounds on a computer, so this film, and probably Miyazaki’s next film, will be the last ones to have backgrounds with paint-on-paper style. One might think, ‘Isn’t that normal for anime?’ but it’s actually a dying art. “For this movie, the background was done with paint-on-paper. Gloriously bringing the toddler’s vivid imagination to life, Mirai leaps off the screen and into our hearts.Īside from its heartwarming message, what makes Mirai particularly special is that it might very well be one of the last Japanese animated features to employ classic hand-drawn animation. ![]() Kun struggles to maintain what he views as his rightful place in the family as the center of attention, but is no match for the newborn, until one day he storms off into the garden, where he meets a cast of strange characters from the past, present and future - including a teenaged Mirai. In Mirai, which was produced by Japan’s Studio Chizu, the studio behind Hosada’s two previous films, Wolf Children and The Boy and the Beast, four-year-old Kun’s world is turned upside-down with the arrival of his new baby sister Mirai (which means “future”).
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