Can Anime Teach You How to Be a Grown-Up?
by Simon AbramsPage 2 of 7
Future Boy Conan (1978)Miyazaki directed, storyboarded and designed characters for this 26-episode cartoon about childhood in a post-nuclear war dystopia. Young Conan learns that even in the far-flung future, he has to work for everything he gets. Living on the deserted Remnant Island, Conan's playtime often coincides with his survival needs, making him Miyazaki's ideally responsible human: playful but responsible. He sleeps in a hollowed-out rocket ship by night and, in this clip creates elaborates traps to hunt sharks for food by day.
