I like underwater life.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.