The Hayao Miyazaki
Framework
Ma, Craft & Handmade Worlds
Hayao Miyazaki represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. Hayao Miyazaki's approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The ma, craft & handmade worlds framework distils Hayao Miyazaki's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Hayao Miyazaki made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Hayao Miyazaki's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Hayao Miyazaki's thinking.
Miyazaki holds that a world is only as real as the labor embedded in it — that audiences do not consciously see individual frames, but they *feel* whether a hand touched each one. He treats *ma* (間), the Japanese concept of negative space and meaningful pause, not as emptiness but as the breathing room that makes everything around it land with full force. His films do not explain their worlds; they assume the world existed before the camera arrived and will continue after it leaves.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
"What was in this room before my story needed it to be a room?"
4 more questions in Hayao Miyazaki's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Hayao Miyazaki actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Hayao Miyazaki's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like Hayao Miyazaki, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →hayao-miyazaki.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →hayao-miyazaki-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Hayao Miyazaki. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.