Hayao Miyazaki is very convincing

A still image from the Studio Ghibli film The Boy and the Heron.

The Boy and the Heron. | Image: GKIDS

Longtime Evangelion animator Takeshi Honda had already signed up to work on another film when The Boy and the Heron director came calling. “When Miyazaki says that to you, really there’s no way to say no,” Honda says.