Mamoru Hosoda

Why do people like him so much? All of his movies are the most generic and bland family movies possible. At least his contemporaries like Matoko Shinkai actually has a destinguishable style and aesthetic. In no way is he, or anyone for that matter, "the new miyazaki".

The opening to samurai champloo is still the best thing he's ever done.

>All of his movies are the most generic and bland family movies possible
What about the furry sex scene that made everyone uncomfortable?

And he panders to furfags, what a joke.

he's a better director than shinkai, but worse writer

The first two-thirds of Wolf Children were fucking masterful, but I haven't enjoyed much of his other work

Friendly reminder that the best thing he ever did was episode direction at Toei.

>better director than shinkai
Shinkai's films have much more detailed art and scene composition and looks much better than most of what mamoru has done.

superior japanese instagram photo filtered over 2000 times

>muh pretty colors

Only movie I really liked from him was Wolf Children.
Wolf Children is reallly fucking good though.
The rest of his films feel a bit too rote though.

>he's a better director than shinkai, but worse writer
I think this makes sense. Apparently he didn't keep on the writer for Wolf Children on for Boy and the Beast and it really shows.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is not even his original work.

Bakemono no ko was nice. Nicer than his other stuff.

I love how expressive he makes all his characters. Otherwise, I do agree his movies are kinda bland.

Hosoda reached his peak kino in Tenshi ni Narumon 22.

Summer wars has got to be one of the dumbest movies ive ever witnessed. The fact that it has some flustered beta MC made it even worse. I am so sick of this trope. Being insecure doesnt mean that you like this around girls.

Who are the best current directors?

all of them are hacks
every filmmaker who has released a feature film in the past half decade has no talent

I like Yamada and Yuasa.

The best and most active one right now is probably masaaki yuasa. He just started his own studio. Imaishi is also pretty good but controversial.

>anything I don't like is generic
That's not what that word means, but then again I'm apparently the last man in the English speaking world who knows what it means.

>At least his contemporaries like Matoko Shinkai actually has a destinguishable style and aesthetic.
So does Hosoda.

Yuasa, Katabuchi, sometimes Ishihara.

>implying mamoru hosada is not generic
It is an overused buzzword but there is not many unqiue ways to describe hosada's style other than "family-oriented"
>so does hosada
Could you explain why you think this? For example, the girl who leaped through time is just another time travel movie featuring a high school girl.
What makes his character designs or art style destinguishable? When I watch a shinkai movie I can usually tell mainly by the color pallet that its a shinkai movie. When I watch a masaaki yuasa anime I can tell its an anime by him because his low budget but unique computer animation style. When i watch a yoshitoshi abe anime its pretty obvious im watching an abe anime from his "non-anime like" mature character designs (pic related) and slow-paced style.
What makes hosada destinguishable?

Forgot to add pic for pic related lol

>implying mamoru hosada is not generic
He isn't. You don't know what the word means.

>Could you explain why you think this?
The way characters are drawn in his movies really stands out.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time >> Your name

I don't like the end of TGWLTT, but most of the time it's a lot more fun, simple (without being simplistic), humorous and, of course, believable, than Your name. Hosoda does not have hyperdetailed backgrounds, but he's much better to build feelings than Shinkai. In other words: Hosoda (at least in most of his films) seems to like people, to know how people behave, to care about the family environment. Shinkai, on the other hand, seems to have spent his entire life locked in his room, his films show an very idealized view of the human beings and their interactions.

hosada is generic because his style isnt very defined because he hasnt created a unique style for himself, its non-specific.
>the way he draws his characters stands out
If you mean how his designs of the characters are not very detailed when compared to the backgrounds, thats not a good thing.

The director does much more than that.

You just looked up generic in the dictionary, didn't you? Now you're trying to act as if that's what you meant all along.

>If you mean how his designs of the characters are not very detailed when compared to the backgrounds, thats not a good thing.
Moving the goalposts.

>What makes hosada destinguishable?
In terms of theme: his family touch. In terms of aesthetics: silences and travellings.

He was only labeled as "the new miyazaki" because of that Ghibli incident. He doesn`t want to be the new Miyazaki and Ghibli seems very unsure about their future once Miyazaki and Takahata retire.

It's been a while since I saw The girl who leapt through time, I remember thinking it was ok. I hated Summer wars, the scenes with grandma were okay though. I was on board for the the first part, but the plot is so fucking stupid I almost dropped a film for the first time.

>you looked up generic in the dictionary
Even if that was true its irrelevant

No, it's perfectly relevant. You didn't know what the word meant and were just using it because you don't like something. Then you actually looked it up and tried to make it fit your argument after the fact.

Wolf Children has one of the best original soundtracks in anime
Like holy shit I could listen to it for days

Okay, I looked it up. Does that matter? I knew what it meant, i just needed to use the specific wording from the definition to prove my point further.

me too, I kinda liked summer wars too

>implying Abe had any relevant input on anything that wasn't Haibane Renmei
every fucking time
Kill yourself you dumb pseudointellectual

You didn't know what it meant. Nearly nobody does.

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Haven't watched Summer Wars or Wolf Children but The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was literally just a way worse The Butterfly Effect.

The story is based on a novel from the 1960s, and if you think this has to be the same as The Buttlefly Effect just because time travel is involved I'm guessing you've never seen or read any other stories about time travel.

(Not who you're replying to)
>Abe had no significant influence

Lmao fucking what

Abe Yoshitoshi had personal relationships with all of the significant people working on the shows.

How about you read up on your shit.

>I love how expressive he makes all his characters.
Agreed with this for sure. He's not afraid to go a little off model to get the proper emotion from a scene.

Time travel with a theme of choices has consequences and owning up to them that starts with the protagonist using time travel for petty shit that escalates as the protagonist starts to abuse their power*

I'm assuming the ending is similar to but I stopped watching GWLTP 2/3rds in because of how blatantly predictable it was.

>GWLTP
GWLTT*

They are completely different from each other. You just think they're the same because they're the only experience you have with time travel stories and because you just hastily generalize everything based on vague first impressions.

Just watch Our War Game it's got all the cool parts of Summer Wars without the gay shit.

Who cares. Words are ways to communicate ideas, if you think his idea about directors being generic or not generic or whatever is wrong, talk about the idea behind it.

>Who cares
>Words are ways to communicate ideas
You have no idea what you are saying.

Finally someone gets it. Our War Game is infinitely better than summer wars. Better yet just watch digimon the movie in English

>just another time travel movie featuring a high school girl
How many these are there really?

>What makes hosada destinguishable?
If you can't identify his work within a minute of viewing it you're blind and retarded

>that Ghibli incident.
What was this?

>Better yet just watch digimon the movie in English
Only if you stop before it gets to the 02 part

hey op i'm watching bakamono no ko right now

I'm not even memeing when I say the very core of both media is exactly the same.
>mysterious time travel ability gained
>protagonist uses it for random petty things
>oh shit something went wrong, but at least I got my time travel ability to fix it!
>oh shit something else went wrong
>things won't stop going wrong!
>what I did wrong was trying to use this power for personal gain and as a shortcut to solving my problems and I need to face up to my choices and problems in life!

Its very different from something like Steins;Gate that focused on finding the perfect time line, or About Time that was just about enjoying the time you have and embracing life's ups and downs.

What's with the meme of having a female MC in these bigger budget movies?

>blah blah blah
They are not the same. See

Lonely directors that can't get good pussy.

>how many are there
I meant that time travel is an overused trope and the main character is mainly defined by being another high school girl character.
>if you cant destinguish its a shinkai movie you are blind
How would I be able to destinguish that its a shinkai work (other than the credits, of course)? Could you elaborate?

You basically just think that everything the same.

Yuasa and Takahata.

Hosoda uses no shading in characters, which contrasts a lot with the soft painted backgrounds. took me like my 3rd rewatch of wolf children to notice it but it's definitely part of his style

solid agree. there's a real special quality to the whole ost

Did you even read my post? I gave you two different examples of time travel stories that vastly differ from the plot line used in The Butterfly Effect/GWLTT
What more do you want? Time Travel Shoujo? Time Bokan 24?

>Did you even read my post?
Not really.

Show me something that has the same style he has?