>[Yonebayashi] describes Anna as “an androgynous character, in the transition between child to adulthood, a very sensitive age” but offers up an intriguing reason for choosing another female-led story: “I'm male myself, and if I had a central character who was male, I'd probably put too much emotion into it, and that would lead to difficulty in telling the story.”
>Will Ghibli ever employ a female director? Nishimura fields this question. “It depends on what kind of a film it would be. Unlike live action, with animation we have to simplify the real world. Women tend to be more realistic and manage day-to-day lives very well. Men on the other hand tend to be more idealistic – and fantasy films need that idealistic approach. I don't think it's a coincidence men are picked.”
Tl;dr Women have a realistic outlook on life, men have an idealistic outlook.
Generally speaking he's right. Most fantasy settings are steeped in the values and fantasies of the masculine Romances, Arthurian chivalry where good and evil are not abstract but tangible forces doing battle on the stage of epic quests and in the hearts of men. Even when it's not strictly one of those settings, that still tends to be its core - even all those "sucked into another world" light novels are like that.
He's not really trying to say that women aren't imaginative or can't do fantasy, just that the abstract idealism that drives fantasy stories is a more masculine fascination. Women tend to be more concrete in their thinking, even when they're fantasizing. Feminine fantasies might center around an ideal person or situation, but the core of it tends to be a more "grounded" goal. Just the word "romance" showcases the difference: to the masculine imagination fighting dragons is romantic. To the feminine imagination a passionate love affair in a picturesque setting is romantic.
Henry Wilson
No, I would say that women, on average, are much more idealistic than men
Robert Campbell
Pretty accurate. Women suck at abstract thought, symbolism after all and want everything to be crystal clear with noting more than face value when it comes to convey ideas.
Justin Scott
But guys are good at seeing the world in a realistic light too
Jaxon Powell
Women have shitty imaginations. It's why they play with dolls/play house/etc when they're kids because that's the only thing their stunted imaginations can come up with whereas boys play with toy cars and soldiers and build forts and have adventures in the woods and shit. Women are just boring and they write and create boring shit. This is 100% fact so don't waste your time trying to refute it.
Elijah Cox
Arnold, you're so smooth!
Caleb Peterson
literally you
Julian Jackson
is that fucking real
Jeremiah Cook
>women are too realistic The japanese really have no clue when it comes to women.
Quick Sup Forums show this article to your girlfriends and report back how many of them are laughing.
Evan Nguyen
Yes, and if you look at that guys post history he's still an unapologetic cuck who white knights constantly.
Yeah I know I'm admitting to having used reddit but after reading that shit I just could not abstain from seeing how bad it really was.
Leo Davis
>asian person >putting emotion into something
Evan Watson
I don't think he's actually wrong. Men are more emotional and idealistic but end up getting a lot of those qualities repressed and snuffed out of them early in life because of social pressures.
Hudson Price
You just invented that. All of that. It takes balls to just make nonsense generalizations like that.
Adam Bell
Asians can get emotional about muh family honor. And their great ancestors. Most of the time it's not living family members though.
Michael Rodriguez
I don't understand why guys like this just don't buy a fucking escort.
Cooper King
Where can I do that? Backpages seems sketch.
Matthew Edwards
Try living in a civilized nation instead of America for one
Anthony Bell
I'm not about to fly to Amsterdam just to get laid.
Joshua Reyes
Check out theotherboard.com. The forums seem pretty legit.
Isaiah Butler
Then go on a vacation, the escort services will be part of the trip.
Henry Moore
He's kind of right, why do you think women typically watch romance movies about real life while men like fantasy and adventure movies. Also men like comics and video games and that shit.
Adrian Lewis
>Also men like comics and video games and that shit. >men
Jason Mitchell
>Women have a realistic outlook on life Horribly false premise.
Jayden Foster
I am a man, even if you try to tell me I'm not.
Jayden White
doesn't explain all the women getting wet from twilight
Grayson Foster
Care to explain, love?
Colton Rodriguez
Shrug it off, mate. If you like comics then just like comics. That doesn't necessarily say anything about your character. user will always take shots at you about it because it's fun and easy. Remember where you are.
Aiden Wood
Twilight is a great example of what the guy in OP is talking about actually.
Jeremiah Adams
Sexist nonsense. But I'm not really surprised that a Japanese person can think this. They aren't as developed as the Western world.
Benjamin Jenkins
If he was a woman, he would've made a more realistic and grounded post.
David Walker
You think they give a shit about vampire lore? No, they like Twilight because it's about love
Kayden Hall
How about trying to refute it?
Carson Rogers
you're just a white dumbass too culturally stupid to understand subtlety and when they feel it is appropriate to be emotional
Julian Smith
R-Patt is a dreamboat, user. Plus chicks dig older men (more centuries the better), so naturally vamps get broads nice and damp. It also explains why feminist Buffy fans got soaking wet over Spike despite him being a sadistic murderer who tried to rape the gurll pwr protagonist.
Juan Torres
twilight is the least imaginative thing in the world though
Cooper Hernandez
There are hardly any women directors in ALL of animu to begin with. Why the fuck would Ghibli bother "experimenting"? They have the worst and most brutal budget-squeezing process too. No woman could endure that.
Ayden Bell
...
Daniel Watson
There are hardly any women directors.
fix'd
Benjamin Wood
You never see women directors or producers say offensive blanket statements about men. They'll say stuff like "this should have a woman's touch" or that it's hard to get in the biz, but that's about it.
Why are men such cunts?
Justin Watson
But women write fantasy and science fiction all the time. The first sci-fi ever written was done by a grill.
Christian Barnes
>actually googled an image from a movie 50 years ago
you can't die off soon enough you irrelevant old fart
Jonathan Baker
It's a bizarre comment for many reasons.
1) Many Ghibli films were adapted from books written by women. 2) Many Ghiibli fantasy films are also very grounded in reality (Totoro, Porco Rosso, or his own film Marnie).
Kayden Green
I mean, it is just an observation based on what he has seen. He knows there could be exceptions.
Asher Scott
Men and women are just different.
Men are idealistic.
Women are gold digging status hungry pigs who will slit their child's throat to climb the social ladder or succumb to delusion and prescribe to themselves a level of status they don't actually have.
That's how men and women are different.
Parker Stewart
You seem angry, did someone go pee pee in your coke?
Luke Anderson
Someone has mommy issues.
Brandon Fisher
I found the woman.
Christopher Harris
...
Robert Miller
totally true immediately comes to mind trying to watch a movie with gf and every 10 minutes she is complaining about how fake everything is.
Nathaniel Robinson
That's weird since they directed fantasy films adapted from female written fantasy books
Brody Foster
Then why do women like romance movies?
Justin Nguyen
>deflecting
Sorry your mother molested you, user.
Blake Nelson
Someone has a bleeding vagina issue.
Ryder Hall
because even if you make romance in a fantasy setting, the central theme is strongly relatable to the real world. Instead the journey of the hero is a more idealistic theme
Japs are just too insecure in their masculinity to compete with women. Because western men actively encourage women to compete with them, they become better men as a result. Old world countries like Japan and in the middle east are terrified of this so they subjugate women because they know that the more beta males they have there will be pushed out of the labor force by women.
Jackson Harris
Woman, please be more irrational.
Chase Cook
you'd be surprised by the amount of women who actually make anime and manga
Luke Allen
Japan doesn't subjugate women, most Japanese women are very happy with their lives and some might even agree with the guy in OP. What he said isn't necessarily an insult.
Gabriel Gutierrez
As animators or screenwriters. There aren't many female anime directors.
Elijah Perry
writers mostly
Evan Hill
>still dodging
Seriously though, do you think about your mom when you say shit like ?
Austin Diaz
But men slit throats far more than women
Andrew Nguyen
>dodging The extent to which you have misjudged this exchange is terrifying. But why should one expect more from a foolish little girl.
Michael Long
I've felt a great disturbance in the force. James Rolfe got it bad and there wasn't an ounce of sexism in his video. Not agreeing or disagreeing with Mr. Yonebayashi, but this is going to be another level of controversy.
Liam Hill
underrated post
Aiden Morris
No one cares about the Japanese.
Jayden Watson
Are there even any female Jap anime directors? I know female mangaka, and female LN writers, and female doujin writers, but no female directors.
Nathan Carter
Woman confirmed.
Isaiah Perry
Yes, there is that woman from K-ON-like shows. I sometimes see Sup Forums discussing her when I go there for Berserk threads.
Isaac Howard
Her name is Naoko Yamada.
Hudson Gonzalez
Do you know her name? It would be funny if the chick directors only did SoL though.
>Clannad >Kanon (2006) >Air >Haruhi >Nichijou >it really is all SoL
It's top tier SoL though so I guess she won that one.
Dominic Barnes
Yup, she only direct SoLs.
Director: K-ON K-ON 2 K-ON the movie Tamako Market Tamako Love Story
Hudson Powell
>lists 9 >only 3 have worked on anything not shit >only two of those three was the main director
Colton Kelly
Remember. He said women directing animated fantasy films. Not writing fantasy.
Thomas Rivera
Anime really went to shit. Damn, from stories inspired by Western cyberpunk and other sci-fi subgenres like Nausicaa, Akira, GitS, Texhnolyze, Lain, Cowboy Bebop to some crap for creepy lonely fucks like K-ON.
Grayson Foster
Holy shit. I feel bad for the other user.
Anthony Barnes
Women btfo
Matthew Perez
not even women.
Ayden Watson
you seem salty
Ethan Baker
Based Japs.
Gavin Baker
>Former Ghibli producer says women are too realistic to direct fantasy films
What he meant was that bitches have no imagination...
Oliver Barnes
or just more honest
Evan Rogers
Plebs, it's not like people haven't said the same thing for ages. Mencken and Weininger didn't say anything different.
Lucas Gray
>feelthebern
Isaiah Anderson
is that Tori Black?
Ayden Price
...isn't it the complete opposite? I feel like women are the ones who "dream" and are always thinking about the way future and reading too deeply into things while guys kind of takes things how they are and go one day at a time. There are idealistic men, and they're the big names in history, but as a majority men seem simpler than women in just about every way.
I literally fought my friend last night and today we're cool with it. Sounds like day-to-day and simple mindset to me.
