I hope everyone’s having a really good start to 2026 in spite of the political horrors around us. Even in an unstable world we can keep our creative energy going and get stuck into a project, old or new, while the year is still a notebook with lots of empty pages to play with.
I started my first working week of the year by wishing a happy 85th birthday to someone who embodies work ethic – Hayao Miyazaki. Here’s animeinsider.insta’s tribute image.
Stuck for ways to celebrate? Watch the greatest anime film ever: My Neighbor Totoro.