I checked various directors and other personal of the animes I liked and find out that they all are at least Gen X or younger.
Oldest is Ikuhara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunihiko_Ikuhara He is kind of on the border between boomers and Gen X.
Perhaps people older than him do not do anime.
Then I remembered than Hayayo Miazaki from Studio Ghibli is very old. Technically he is part of Silent Gen rather then a boomer. However there is a huge gap between Hayayo's old style anime and newer anime done by younger people.
Hayayo is often described as feminist. His shows push for much more conservative ideology and world view. I used to like them for good art and well made backgrounds. Cat-but is also cool and original. However rewatching Totoro I noticed this strong family and duty focus, kids always obey parents and they all care for women. All that rather spoiled the impression for me. Not the kind of world I want.
Also are all boomers like Hayayo and believe the same thing? Isn't their ideology spoils the world for all of us?
One final question: are boomers the only generation that cannot into making anime? Gen X and earlier can do it. Even Silent Gen managed to get on the hype train.
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