Bring up the subject of anime to the layman, and chances are they’ll recognize one name: Hayao Miyazaki. Over here on the state side of things, audiences may know what anime looks like, but with the exception of Miyzaki, many animators have had a hard time becoming truly mainstream. Arguably, there have been two other directors who have started to gain more recognition in the mainstream, one is Your Name‘s Makoto Shinkai, and the other is Mirai‘s Mamoru Hosoda.