Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Will "Continue Making Anime Until I Die" [VIDEOS]

When legendary animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki last year announced his retirement from his Anime studio, Studio Ghibli, fans of his tremendous work were devastated and even thought that Ghibli would shut down. Well, the studio is doing well and Miyazaki just this week announced some news that would raise our spirits a bit more, too. While accepting his Lifetime Achievement Oscar at the Governors Awards this weekend, the animation legend said that he would never stop making Anime as long as he lives.

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"I'm going to continue making anime until I die," he said after Pixar head Jon Lasseter presented him with the award.

Check out the following videos of Lasseter's introduction and speech, followed by Miyazaki's acceptance right here:


So what does Miyazaki mean by this statement? His retirement from Ghibli definitely made it look like he was done with Anime, but a recent interview with The LA Times' Rebecca Keegan cleared up that confusion. It turns out he's going to be working on short films instead of feature-length movies.

"It's something I wanted to do when I was a student," he said, according to io9. "It's about samurai in the 16th century, wearing full armor, battling it out with each other. I was very dissatisfied with the way that era was depicted in fiction and film, so I wanted to draw something that would reflect the way I thought that era should look."

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