While it is real that a number of animators, Shinkai integrated, have been named probable successors and conventional-bearers to Miyazaki’s legacy, and when the two do share an affinity for magical realism, Shinkai’s method is to juxtapose it as an ingredient apart from the urban areas which his figures populate, while Miyazaki employs it as a force that is continuously in tune with the pastoral environments which regularly aspect as the.