According to Goro, soon after the release of The Boy and Heron, Hayao Miyazaki began thinking up concepts for his next work.
Though Hayao Miyazaki is famed for his perfectionism, Goro says that he’s also fiercely competitive, which is contributing to his secretiveness.
As is often the case, though, the line of questions quickly pivoted to ones regarding his father, Studio Ghibli co-founder and legendary director Hayao Miyazaki.
[Hayao Miyazaki felt] ‘I’ll be retiring [from animating], so all you older animators should retire too.