Famed animator Hayao Miyazaki might not be done making films, says Ghibli exec

His son by now is like Prince/King Charles... He's spent most of his life in the shadow of a parent who was supposed to eventually hand him the reigns, but never really trusted him enough to actually do it.

Miyazaki is very much a Japanese postwar boomer, 3 or 4 years really make no difference. He went through the reconstruction period and the following building bubble, which deeply shaped his relationship with nature (and loss thereof). He grew up with the work of Tezuka Osamu. His work ethic is classic death-march postwar Japanese, graduated in the '60s and went through a traditional career at Toei. Ghibli was founded in 1985, when Japan was still riding the wave of postwar economic growth and the yen were flowing to all sorts of new businesses. He struggled to establish successors in the classic mold of postwar-boomer family-run businesses.

He is a boomer, there is no question about it. Whether you find that term offensive is not here nor there.

> "boomer" is a pretty hatefull slur these days

What? It's absolutely not as insulting as any number of terms used against people of color, people with disabilities, women, minorities (the list can go on), and saying it's a hateful slur starts to put it in the same ballpark as those, which is very disingenuous. It's also not even that true; "ok boomer" is often used ironically within a group of friends these days, and sometimes used against an actual baby boomer, but it's not really that hateful.

> 2) baby boomers are the generation born post post-1945

And here I thought baby boomers were the parents who made all those babies in the post-war boom era. Those people were not born post-1945 if they were at reproductive age in the late 1940s.