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60? I believe one stays the same.

Hayao Miyazaki
 robot is a machine that can move and perform tasks on its own.
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If someone has power, they have a lot of control over people and activities.
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A prize is something that is given to the winner of a competition.
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Something that is complex has many different parts, and is difficult
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A virtual object or activity is something that is created by a computer to
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If there is a lack of something, there is not enough of it or it does not exist at all.
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Your imagination is your ability to form new or exciting ideas.
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Humans and robots1 fight to save the

world. Animals with magical powers2 have
great adventures. The world of anime
is an exciting and colorful place. And
who takes us there? Animators such as
Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.
Miyazaki started working in animation
in 1963 and directed his first animated
movie in 1979. More movies followed,
including Nausica of the Valley of the
Wind, produced in 1984. The following
year Miyazaki started his own company,
Studio Ghibli. Since then, the studios
films have won various prizes,3 including
an Academy Award in 2001 for
Spirited Away.
Miyazakis studio also produces manga,
or comic books. Nausica began as a
popular manga series set in the future.
In the 1984 movie based on the series,
Princess Nausica travels in a flying
machine to study poisonous plants. Its
just the beginning of a complex4 and
exciting story.
The directors films can be difficult to
explain in just a few words. Nature and
technology often play a central part in
Miyazakis stories. Understanding the way
children see the world is also important to
him. I look at them and try to see things
as they do, he says.
In his free time, Miyazaki stays away
from television and other media. Young
people are surrounded by virtual5 things,
he says. They lack6 real experience of life
and lose their imaginations.7 Luckily for
anime fans, Hayao Miyazaki hasnt lost
any of his own.

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