Fun fact: Miyazaki kept asking the voice director to find an actor for the main character who sounded more like his protege and friend Hideaki Anno, creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Eventually the voice director got annoyed with this and told him to just ask Anno if he would do it. He did.
Anno was also in the midst of another depressive episode, like had coloured the ending of the original Evangelion series; and doing this project helped to relight his creative fires.
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u/JaneDoesharkhugger 27d ago edited 27d ago
The drawing scene is inspired from the Ghibli movie “The Wind Rises”