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The UK Guardian reports anime director Hayao Miyazaki's studio, Ghibli, will be sold to the majority ownership of Nippon TV, after his son decided not to try and run the company himself, following his dad's presumed retirement after making what'll presumably be his last production, The Boy and the Heron:

Weeks after the celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki made his long-awaited comeback, the studio he founded almost four decades ago has secured its long-term future, easing concerns over its struggle to find a successor.

Studio Ghibli said this week that the company would be acquired by the private broadcaster, Nippon TV, which promised to continue building on Ghibli’s global success. Miyazaki – widely considered to be one of the world’s greatest animators – founded Studio Ghibli in 1985, leading it to a string of successes, including an Oscar in 2003 for Spirited Away. The studio built a loyal following around the world with films like My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke, while Miyazaki was nominated for two further Academy Awards – for Howl’s Moving Castle in 2006 and The Wind Rises in 2014 – the same year he was chosen to receive an honorary Oscar.

As mentioned once before, his previous film from 2014 glossed over the life of an aviation engineer who built the fighter plane models Japan imperial army used during WW2. But with all the leftists running the now irrelevant Oscars, no surprise they'd give him a prize he doesn't deserve.

The agreement with Nippon TV, which will become Ghibli’s biggest shareholder, came after Miyazaki, 82, and its president, 75-year-old Toshio Suzuki, failed to persuade Miyazaki’s son to take over the running of the studio.

“We have long struggled with the question: who will be the successor,” Studio Ghibli said in a joint statement with Nippon TV.

Miyazaki’s son, Goro, has repeatedly been mentioned as a possible successor, but has “firmly rejected the idea,” the statement said. “It is too much to shoulder by myself. It is better to leave it to somebody else,” Goro, an anime director, said, according to the statement.

Sounds like Miyazaki Sr. is the only justification for the studio's existence. Ghibli may continue under its own name while Nippon TV retains new ownership, but it wouldn't be surprising if it becomes even less stellar than it was when Miyazaki Sr. was in charge, and while some of his films are impressive, it's a terrible shame he soured the better impact with his own leftist politics. Without him, it'll probably become like just about any other studio, assuming it continues much longer. For now, if Miyazaki is really retiring, it's for the best.

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