“We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.”

There has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

Engineers turn dreams into reality.

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.

See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”

I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.

I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.

Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

You always have to appeal to your audience.

If you’re going to retire, retire early.

I’ve never studied psychology.

To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.

AI animation is, “is an insult to life itself.

When I say ‘hero’, do not picture someone with strength to fight and conquer evil – because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

And in between a guilty laughter that pretended to move on, her eyes shed tears of reality and broke all her delusions.

You said I was sunshine breaking shadows into your night.

Those broken girls have the deepest love.

The broken girls are the flowers of the earth they grow through tough conditions they bloom for themselves,

There’s still magic in a heart that’s been broken.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.