is the collective name for
Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widel ...
's annotated
manga
Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is ...
and illustrated essays he contributed, very sporadically, to the hobby magazine ''Model Graphix'' in the 1980s and early ’90s. The name has also been translated into English as ''Hayao Miyazaki's Random Thoughts Notebook''. Game designer Kazuma Kujo stated in a 2012 ''
Retro Gamer
''Retro Gamer'' is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering retro video games. It was the first commercial magazine to be devoted entirely to the subject. Launched in January 2004 as a quarterly publication, ''Retro Gamer'' soon became ...
'' article that the book served as inspiration during development of ''
Metal Slug
is a Japanese run and gun video game series originally created by Nazca Corporation before merging with SNK in 1996 after the completion of the first game in the series. Spin-off games include a third-person shooter to commemorate the 10th ...
''.
Development
The ''Daydream Notes'' began as private sketches that can be traced back to Miyazaki's earliest childhood. Born in 1941 he, like war babies all over Europe, drew almost exclusively planes, tanks and battleships.
Media
Magazine
Installments of ''Daydream Notes'' were irregularly printed. Episodes occasionally appeared in the November 1984 through May 1990 issues of the monthly magazine ''Model Graphix''.
Books
Selections from his ''Daydream Notes'' have been bundled in book form, published by Dainippon Kaiga in December 1992.
In August 1997 a revised and expanded edition was released by the same publisher.
The first edition does not contain ''
Hikōtei Jidai''.
The annotated manga ' is not included in either edition but appears in a different collection, ', published, by Dainippon Kaiga, in August 2002.
Installments / Contents
# Shirarezaru Kyojin no Mattei
# Kōtetsu no Ikuji
# Tahōtō no Deban
# Noufu no Me
# Ryū no Kōtetsu
# Kyūshū Jōkū no Jūgōsakuki
# Kōshahōtō
# Q-ship
# Anshōmaru Monogatari
# London Jōkuu 1918-nen
# Saihin Zensen
#
Hikōtei Jidai, an early version of
Porco Rosso
is a 1992 Japanese animated adventure-fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is based on '' Hikōtei Jidai'' ("The Age of the Flying Boat"), a three-part 1989 watercolor manga by Miyazaki. It stars the voices of Shūichirō M ...
# Buta no Tora
Radio broadcast
In 1995, Miyazaki's ''Daydream Notes'' was turned into a series of radio broadcasts for
Nippon Broadcasting System
, or JOLF, is a Japanese radio station in Yurakucho, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo, next to the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Founded in 1954, it is together with Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, the flagship station of the National Radio Network. Nippon Bro ...
. When commenting on this dramatisation in an interview for
Tokuma Shoten
is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company’s product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, ...
's
Animage
is a Japanese anime and entertainment magazine which Tokuma Shoten began publishing in July 1978. Hayao Miyazaki's internationally renowned manga, '' Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'', was serialized in ''Animage'' from 1982 through 1994. ...
magazine, Miyazaki explains his political stance as an opponent of Japan's rearmament and contrasts this with his lifelong interests in war, military affairs and military hardware. He explains that he expresses this fascination by drawing the fantastical craft, which are then published in ''Model Graphix'', a magazine for scale model creation. He said that he did his best drawings when he was serializing his manga
Nausicaä, "After staying up till dawn drawing the last manga pages to meet the printer's deadline, I would draw these models the next day; each would take a week.
In essence it is my hobby to draw seemingly real vehicles, it works as my psychological release valve."
Notes
References
Bibliography
* .
* .
External links
*
{{Hayao Miyazaki
Comics by Hayao Miyazaki