Neat. I'm interested to watch this for the first time.
But question: is banking on Yuasa's name a thing? Has he become another Miyazaki after Devilman and Walk on Girl? Or is coincidental?
The comparison with Miyazaki is honestly a bit tired, mainly because it gets immediately trotted out whenever a director gains any kind of recognition in the west.
There are no other Miyazakis and Masaaki Yuasa honestly couldn't really be any more different from him if he tried. While Miyazaki is relatively well known in the west compared to other Anime directors in the west, there is a VERY small chance anyone outside of the most hardcore anime circles will recognize the Name Masaaki Yuasa. And even if he does get more recognition thanks to his relative mainstream success with Devilman Crybaby (which is still a niche show compared to actual mainstream anime like Dragon Ball, One Piece, My Hero Academia etc), his focus is so much more specialized, the type of movies and shows he makes so completely different from what Miyazaki generally works on that I feel like there is a near-zero chance of him ever getting a similiar fanbase in terms of demographics.
So, no, not another Miyazaki, just a director that, for the first time, managed to break out of an extremely specialized niche into a more general niche with a good chance that more anime fans in the west will recognize his name thanks to the success of Devilman and a studio that of course wants to capitalize on that.
