While it is true that a number of animators, Shinkai bundled, have been named feasible successors and regular-bearers to Miyazaki’s legacy, and even though the two do share an affinity for magical realism, Shinkai’s method is to juxtapose it as an aspect apart from the urban spaces which his characters populate, although Miyazaki employs it as a drive that is continuously in tune with the pastoral environments which commonly element as the.