# Miyazaki on the Ipad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miyazaki-on-the-ipad/546569 "2010-07-13T18:31:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miyazaki-on-the-ipad/546569/1 "2010-07-13T18:31:12Z")
No, I don’t mean watching his amazing movies on the Ipad. Have you ever wondered what Miyazaki thinks of the Ipad and similar devices? No? He thinks everyone using it looks like they are masturbating. I love this guy. [Read it here.](http://kotaku.com/5584759/hayao-miyazaki-compares-ipad-use-to-masturbation) > [@](#): > > For me, there is no feeling of admiration or no excitement whatsoever," Miyazaki said about the iPad. "It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying. 😃 Mods, please move this to MPSIMS if it’s more appropriate there(well, not more appropriate, but you get the idea). Since he is an animator, I thought it might be Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miyazaki-on-the-ipad/546569/2 "2010-07-13T23:48:40Z")
I’m wondering what gesture he’s talking about. When I use my iPad I’m not making any particular kind of gesture. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miyazaki-on-the-ipad/546569/3 "2010-07-14T00:22:07Z")
“Greatest animator alive”? What, did [Richard Williams](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931530/) die? Miyazaki is a very talented art director and he has a great imagination. But he has produced far too much really awful animation to earn that title. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miyazaki-on-the-ipad/546569/4 "2010-07-14T00:26:49Z")
Perhaps [this gesture](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OLP4nbAVA4)? Or [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etEqfBrVp1w)? Maybe he means [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJMqGSX7L8). ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miyazaki-on-the-ipad/546569/5 "2010-07-14T01:39:34Z")
I’m sure that there are 100x worse things happening on Japanese trains. He sounds like a Luddite, but he’s not old as you’d expect for that. Just curious, **gaffa** , which were “awful”? I’ve seen a few, and they’re all fine, if a bit derivative of each other, and yeah, an anti-technology slant in some. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miyazaki-on-the-ipad/546569/6 "2010-07-14T02:36:53Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Just curious, **gaffa** , which were “awful”? I’ve seen a few, and they’re all fine, if a bit derivative of each other, and yeah, an anti-technology slant in some. There are bits in his films which are brilliant, but there are other bits that are just plain bad animation. His human characters walk in a stiff-legged manner and there are any number of scenes with a very limited frame rate, with 6 or even 3 frames per second. And, most unforgivably, he (like virtually all anime directors) does not animate to a sountrack. We had a nice long discussion about this [in this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=515526).