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Anime Wizard Hayao Miyazaki Compares iPad Stroking to Masturbation

by Amar Toor on July 13, 2010 at 09:40 AM

hayao miyazakiIn the visually illustrious world of Hayao Miyazaki, anything goes. Children fly, parents turn into pigs, and shadows cook udon. One thing that doesn't exist in his fantasy land, though, is the iPad.

It's a well known fact that Miyazaki is a staunch anti-techie. He owns no computer, DVD player or cell phone, and proudly communicates via handwritten letters whenever he feels the need to express his genius to anyone else. It should come as no surprise, then, that he doesn't think too highly of the iPad. At all. In a recent interview with his own Studio Ghibli's monthly publication, 'Neppuu,' Miyazaki pretty accurately vaguely referred to the new Apple tablet as a "game machine-type thing," and said he felt uneasy with the "strange gestures" that people use to interact with their iPads. "For me, there is no feeling of admiration or no excitement whatsoever. It's disgusting," the modern day legend explained. "On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying."

Now, we've never confused our iPad for other, more stimulating "game machine-type" things. But we've also never second-guessed Hayao Miyazaki's omniscience, either. If he says stroking our beloved tablets is masturbatory, so be it. At least that would explain those unseemly "fingerprints" all over our 'Pads. [From: Kotaku, via: Geekosystem]

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