“This magnificent building has been completely digitalized and has excellent air conditioning,” he started before explaining why modernization isn’t necessarily a good thing. “It’s like Disney’s boring digital production system today. A creative person must have a crazy side, spiritual, earthy, and indie-like. If you can create a piece of art in a space with fully controlled air conditioning, I think you should do it. But when I look back at something like Machiko Hasegawa’s Sazae-san, I get the sense that it was drawn in a drafty workplace during the post-war period when manga began to appear. I feel there is a danger that sense may disappear.”