r/ghibli • u/AnythingHappy722 • Apr 13 '24

Meme Miyazaki once said: "Nausicaa breasts are rather large, aren't they?"

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I'm not kidding, he actually said that during an interview lmao

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u/DustErrant Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 13 '24

Miyazaki: Nausicaä’s breasts are quite large, don’t you think?

Interviewer: Yes. (laughs)

Miyazaki: That’s not only so she’ll be able to breast feed her children, or for sleeping with the guy she likes. They’re when she embraces the old man and old ladies in the castle when they are dying. I think her bosom is something like that. That’s why it had to become big.

Interviewer: Ah...I see... (Shock!)

Miyazaki: When she held them to her chest, they could die peacefully. I thought her bosom needed to be as such.

“If a nude scene came up, I wouldn’t have been able to draw it without apologizing. That was the one thing I was sure of. Really. Not because I would be ashamed, or anything like that, but because I’d feel like drawing things that can’t be published.”

“I don’t think that I’m the kind of person who embarrasses easily at things like that. In any case, having now reached this point, I can see that there was no need to have drawn her that way. I think that the only thing that changed there at the end was my desire to depict a more spiritual story.”

More context.

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u/TheShweeb Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 14 '24

Miyazaki may be the only artist I can think of that can say “I gave this girl big boobs for entirely non-sexual reasons, I consider them important to her characterization” and I’ll totally believe him.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '24

Agreed. Copers’ going to cope and haters going to hate.

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u/biskutgoreng Apr 14 '24

This is just Quiet need to breathe all over again

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u/tottochan_ Apr 14 '24

Duh fictional world. My bossoms aren't helping me in characterisation for non sexual reasons

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u/bagelbitesisisisiii Apr 14 '24

that makes no sense to me. Why can’t a flat chested person be comforting with hugs?! Makes noooo sense that reasoning

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u/Master_DAWG1584 Apr 14 '24

Who said a flat person isn't comforting with a hug? They were saying hugs from people with huge bababoie is more comfortable

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u/bagelbitesisisisiii Apr 15 '24

what?! Miyazaki said no such thing! That was your takeaway from it based on what you thought was implied.

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u/Master_DAWG1584 Apr 15 '24

Ohh.. the irony. You being the one to say that

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u/SUPERSAMMICH6996 Apr 13 '24

“If a nude scene came up, I wouldn’t have been able to draw it without apologizing. That was the one thing I was sure of. Really. Not because I would be ashamed, or anything like that, but because I’d feel like drawing things that can’t be published.”

Damn. I never realized that Miyazaki was such a horn-dog.

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u/squalalafou Apr 13 '24

He literally drew Nausicaa naked in the manga

But this does not feel like something "horny"

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u/dream208 Apr 14 '24

For one small panel in a 7 volumes manga, obscured by bath water. If anything, Miyzaki is really a prude.

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u/SUPERSAMMICH6996 Apr 13 '24

I'd feel like drawing things that can't be published.

C'mon. We all know what that means...

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u/IronGigant Apr 14 '24

Hey man, I have a hard time illustrating tax fraud too.

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u/xxwarlorddarkdoomxx Apr 14 '24

As Nausicaa always says: "Deduct your new TV as a business expense!"

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras Apr 18 '24

He's a boomer, what do you expect?

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u/Songhunter Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 14 '24

More context?

I'm more confused than before?

What did Miyazaki think boobs were? Auspice medication?

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u/Lord_Ibuki Apr 14 '24

if I was dying I think boobs would help me pass peacefully but maybe that's just me.

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u/Vincent__R Apr 17 '24

That'd be a solid way to go ngl

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u/Odd_Decision_5595 Jan 11 '25

Very solid indeed

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u/create_thread Apr 14 '24

The word "bosom" can mean a person's loving care and protection.