Tangent: when looking up Mamoru Oshii I found an interview where he compared the work culture at Studio Ghibli to a communist dictatorship (“communism is when capitalism”), because people of the 1960s “Anpo generation” (like Miyazaki) have “no morals” when they believe their cause is just…
if you are also a preteen or early teenager it’s probably fine to fall in love with a girl your age
it sounds like it was before he had his first real job