Basking in the Mediterranean setting of Pixar’s new animation Luca, the first comparison that springs to mind is a Japanese one. The clear, blue-green seas, lush vegetation, idyllic village life, blue skies and giant white clouds: this is Miyazaki territory. This is despite the fact that Hayao Miyazaki, the famed founder of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, lives several thousand miles away.
Anime in general, and Miyazaki in particular, has always had a thing for European stories and settings, and aficionados will enjoy spotting the similarities with Luca. Director Enrico Casarosa has readily acknowledged that Miyazaki looms large in his DNA. He directed his team to study Miyazaki’s back catalogue,
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