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Fun fact: the name "Miyazaki" comes from 宮 miya (shrine) + 﨑 saki (small peninsula). The saki becomes zaki due to rendaku, a sound change that often happens in Japanese compound words; there is also "Miyasaki" as a variant reading of the surname without rendaku.

In any case, this means that the surname Miyazaki is essentially identical in meaning to the surname Kirkness, and the toponym Kirkenes, if we treat churches and Shinto shrines as equivalents to one another in the respective cultures.

Me, sitting in the perfect center of the back of the bus with glazed over, unfocused eyes:

I tried to think of the funniest way to combine all their authorial quirks (poison swamps, airplanes, not explaining any of the backstory, stopping everything to animate the procedures of the protagonist's day to day life) but I just got Nausicaa

Goro Miyazaki looking exactly like Hayao but Goro is just looking at Hayao

shamelessly cribbed from here