edit: Posted by mistake

I know.

But that ain't how you mentor someone.

And it's not just his son.

The man denounces Lord of the Rings, and western culture in general:

(I am), anti-jeans, anti-bourbon, anti-burgers, anti-fried chicken, anti-cola, anti-American coffee, and anti-New York, anti-West Coast, Disneyland go back to America!

He's known to feel disdain for people who embrace modern technology. He's said people using touch-screens look like they are making "strange masturbation-like gestures".

He's admitted to getting "fed up" with seeing people read manga in public, even before smartphones existed.

The man seems incapable of giving constructive criticism, or just generally being pleasant. When commenting on the passing of Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy and a formative figure for manga in general, he said:

I'm assuming there will be a loud chorus of other people mourning his passing, and I do not intend to add my voice to it.

He's a genius. And obviously has profound thoughts and ideas about the world as the plot-lines of his movies illustrate.

But he also has a hateful streak which he doesn't seem to even try controlling.

From Up On Poppy Hill is a beautiful movie. Earwig is garbage though.

Edit: misunderstood the comment I was replying to

He is infamously eccentric. Maybe no-one ever set his talent aside for long enough to teach him manners. And it was probably too late to do that ages ago.

But he also has humanitarian ideas. Looking at the messages his movies convey, it's clear to me he wishes people the best.

Yet he vilifies so much of the real world and the people in it. And it just feels like a refusal to even try to understand.