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

Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.