Hayao Miyazaki father and son file together to create "Anya and the Witch"
Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli animation returned, Miyazaki's last work was 2013's "The Wind Rises", a gap of 8 years, when Miyazaki threatened to retire for the seventh time, but fortunately he retired, and finally in 2021, he had a plan by him, directed by his son Miyazaki Goro, and the new film "Anya and the Witch" cooperated by father and son was released. At the same time, Miyazaki's other masterpiece "What kind of life do you want to live" is also in production, I believe it will be seen in the near future, Miyazaki fans must be very much looking forward to it.
Ghibli's first animated CG film was mixed
Speaking of "Anya and the Witch", this is the first time that Studio Ghibli has produced animation with CG technology, which is indeed a very big breakthrough compared to the previous hand-drawn style, but the feedback from the audience is mixed, some people feel that the CG painting style lacks the unique style of Ghibli, and the CG painting style makes "Anya and the Witch" tend to be ordinary, but some viewers feel that the times have changed, and the transformation of animated films is beyond reproach. I don't know if Ghibli's later works will become fully CG productions, but as an attempt to transform for the first time, I am a bit unaccustomed, before watching Ghibli's hand painting style, there is always a unique sense of the times, let you enter the story world of Miyazaki Hayao, and now watching the three-dimensional "Anya and the Witch", from time to time there is always a bit of "drama", will think of other animated movies. However, in order to balance the transition from hand-drawn style to CG style, "Anya and the Witch" also gave up the extremely authentic and delicate hair and eye treatment, and changed to the clay shape treatment, as far as possible to retain the Ghibli style for the characters, which is also a lot of thought.
A story about a witch
Regarding the anime of the witch, you may immediately think of Miyazaki's old work "Witch House Rush", I initially thought that there would be no similarities between the two, and the result was completely different. "Anya and the Witch" is adapted from the original novel author of "Hal Moving Castle" of the same name, the story revolves around the 10-year-old Anya, who grew up in the orphanage and lived very freely and happily, and she had a feeling of "little fart child" and "earth emperor", so she did not expect to be adopted and go to another place to start a new life. Unfortunately, all the storylines, as long as the "Flag" is established, there will definitely be the opposite development, so Anya was quickly adopted by a man and a woman to return home, and Anya has since lived under the same roof with the mysterious men and women, Bara Youjia and Mordor, and a talking cat.
Anya is like the epitome of a modern child
Anya's role is set very close to the current children, especially her days in the orphanage, living quite happily, but in fact, there is not much enthusiasm for life, will not be curious about the outside world, do not want to explore more unknown possibilities, when other children are eager for a new life in the new family, she feels that it is enough to live comfortably in the orphanage, and there is no need to deliberately change or pursue anything. When the previous generation grew up, the material life was not rich, and a grain of sugar was also cherished and contented; our generation was born in the era of material abundance, but because it experienced the progress of the times, it would be curious about many things and wanted to pursue; but modern children, born in the era when society was already very developed, many of them would hold a "Buddhist" attitude towards life, did not have a special game to play, did not have anything they particularly wanted to eat, did not have a place they particularly wanted to go, and there was no special happiness and unhappiness in life.
If Anya had been living in an orphanage, maybe her life would have been so called so-called, occasionally a little "mean" to life, but may not try to fight for anything for her life, fortunately, Bara Youjia and Mordor inspired Anya's bones to be a little unyielding, so that she learned to fight for herself in order to learn magic.
Most of any of the time Anya spends time with Bara Youjia, or the fight, and the relationship with Mordor and a little fear, which is more or less a projection of Miyazaki's relationship with his father, and it is also a problem faced by many families. When parents and viewers watch movies, I wonder if they will have a different experience?