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On the 100th anniversary of the first anime 東京国立近代美術館フィルムセンター said:

> **どうしたら** このアニメがこれから１００年残っていくか考えてほしいと思います  
>  ??? We want you think about how these anime will be here 100 years from
> now.

My translation is unnatural. I'm having trouble understanding how どうしたら works
in this sentence, and what it means. Normally when I see どうしたら it either goes
with いい or with a verb in potential form. I can't understand what 'how' is
referring to here.

Come to think of it, I'm not too sure about 残っていく either. 'to go on remaining'
= 'to survive' maybe?
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Understanding どうしたら
> どうしたらこのアニメがこれから１００年残っていくか
>
> = Doing what will lead to this anime surviving for 100 years?

Although the above sounds a bit odd in English, it might help to think of
どうしたら as meaning "by doing what?"

You mention seeing どうしたら with いい. Perhaps, for example, どうしたらいいですか. In natural
English this would often be written as "what should I do?" but more literally
you can think of it as "doing what would be good?"

Your understanding of 残っていく sounds good to me.
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First, let us pretend for a moment that the sentence is:

> 「 **こう** したら、このアニメはこれから１００年残{ねんのこ}っていくだろう。」

Do you feel comfortable with this sentence? It means:

> " **If one did this** , this anime would survive for the next 100 years."

What to do to make it survive a long time must have already been discussed in
the conversation, mustn't it? That is why you can say 「 **こう** したら」.

This is all about the famous こそあど. If you have a word starting with こ、そ or あ,
then a "what", "how", "where", etc. has already been mentioned or discussed in
concrete terms in the conversation. If it has **not** yet been discussed, and
you want to talk about it, that is when you use a **ど** ｰword. So, you have a
「 **どう** 」 this time.

Back to the original sentence..

> 「 **どうしたら** このアニメがこれから１００年残っていくか考{かんが}えてほしいと思{おも}います。」

「どうしたら」 is, of course, a conditional phrase, which is actually difficult to
translate by itself. It literally means " **If one did what** ". The sentence
is talking about "what to do" or "what should one do" to make the anime last
long. Are you following?

「どうしたら」 modifies 「残っていく」. ← Important " **what to do (so that) it will
survive** "

> "I can't understand what 'how' is referring to here."

This statement worries me somewhat. Forget " **how** "; That is just your
literal translation of 「どう」. Instead, you would need to get used to the highly
common collocation of 「 **どう + する** 」 to mean "do what", "what to do", etc.

「 **どう** しよう！」= " **What** should I do?"

「 **どう** したの？」 = " **What** happened?"

Those phrases should sound familiar to anyone who has been studying Japanese
over 6 months or so.

The reason that the sentence in question seems difficult to comprehend,
according to me, is the fact that it has not only a very long object but the
object contains within itself a mini-sentence consisting of a condition and
consequence. The object of the sentence is:

> 「どうしたらこのアニメがこれから１００年残っていくか​」

That is what the speaker/author wants you to think about。

> 「(Object) + （を） + 考えてほしいと思います。」

「を」 is not used, but it can be.

> "I would like you to think about (what should be done/what you should
> do/what to do) so that this anime continues to survive the next 100 years."
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