Series like “Jujutsu Kaisen,” “Spy × Family” and “Demon Slayer” have become worldwide hits. Some of the most successful manga series today are serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. But is there anything about the current state of the anime industry that concerns you? Japanese animation has spread all over the world and tops the box office in Japan. I wanted to depict that feeling in the film, though I don’t think that the job of animation is to stop population decline or restore the ruins. To be honest, I feel a kind of resignation - haikyo are inevitable since the population is decreasing rapidly, and the economy is gradually becoming smaller.
Tohoku, of course, is not a ruin, but it is a place where people died, and part of it became uninhabitable, so the buildings there became ruins. And I thought the goal of the heroine’s “tour of ruins” should be the Tohoku regions in Northern Japan, the site of the Great East Japan Earthquake. I hit on haikyo, places that have been abandoned because of decreasing population. I wanted to make an adventure story, so I wondered where I could set it in present-day Japan. What were your reasons for those choices? The film also references the 2011 earthquake that took nearly 20,000 lives and left much devastation. “Suzume” features the so-called haikyo(“ruins”), the abandoned buildings that can be found everywhere in Japan, many of which are the result of the long stagnation after the economic boom of the 1980s.
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