Ghibli producer provokes backlash for comment regarding abilities of women to direct anime

After that came Princess Mononoke (directed by Miyazaki), My Neighbors the Yamadas (directed by Takahata), and Spirited Away (Miyazaki again).

And yet, a comment from Yoshiaki Nishimura, one of the film’s two co-producers, has some Ghibli fans who’d been no doubt excited to see Marnie seeing red instead.

You’ll find very few entities in any creative field that enjoy the sort of widespread respect and goodwill that Studio Ghibli does.