I love The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Absolutely fantastic. Even planning another rewatch in a few days. But the rest of his stuff I've seen (Wolf Children, Summer Wars, The Boy and the Beast)? It's fine, but nothing that great, outside of the visuals. And this is now his 3rd film where the plot is about the digital world having a big impact on the real world. It was interesting when Digimon did it in 2000, but it's a message that was already a bit late in 2009 with Summer Wars.
This is the same guy who has taken shots at Miyazaki for how Ghibli films have depicted girls. It makes me wonder if all this is his way of trying to gain some extra attention.
Either way, I get way more excited for Shinkai films than Hosoda's stuff.
I love The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Absolutely fantastic. Even planning another rewatch in a few days. But the rest of his stuff I've seen (Wolf Children, Summer Wars, The Boy and the Beast)? It's fine, but nothing that great, outside of the visuals. And this is now his 3rd film where the plot is about the digital world having a big impact on the real world. It was interesting when Digimon did it in 2000, but it's a message that was already a bit late in 2009 with Summer Wars.
This is the same guy who has taken shots at Miyazaki for how Ghibli films have depicted girls. It makes me wonder if all this is his way of trying to gain some extra attention.
Either way, I get way more excited for Shinkai films than Hosoda's stuff.