The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki

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64 points | by vinhnx 1 day ago

6 comments

  • msuniverse2026 2 minutes ago
    He used to make a lot of short illustrated stories too. My favourite is 'Imouto He' because I love the plane concept - there is really nothing like it and I wonder if an aerospace engineer could look at it and spot any reasons it couldn't exist.

    https://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2008/03/imoto-he-for-my-siste...

  • ostacke 22 minutes ago
    Seeing Miyazaki’s Pippi makes me so sad that we never got to see that movie. I’ve been reading a ton of Astrid Lindgren with my kid lately, and for many of them I see them in my mind’s eye as Myazaki films, and especially Pippi. Myazaki and Lindgren have a lot in common, I think, in how they tell stories from children’s perspectives. What we’ve got for Pippi movie adaptations instead are very poor things.
  • tralarpa 2 hours ago
    I highly recommend the NHK documentary "10 years with Hayao Miyazaki" that shows how he works (and also his sometimes difficult character).
  • mjhay 1 hour ago
    There’s so much magic, for lack of a better word, in those illustrations. Miyazaki is really one of a kind.
  • Shogo_Kaneda 1 day ago
    Thank you for sharing the image boards! They're very rare and impressed me. How have you found them?
    • mdurana 2 hours ago
      There's always a "courtesy of..." under each image board and it seems like it's all books released for each film.
      • caycep 2 hours ago
        also, the inaugural special exhibition for the new Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences museum in LA was on Miyazaki; they somehow gathered all these boards and notebooks in one place for several months. This was magical, and I give the curators props for doing this; they could have easily started off with a self-celebratory American/Hollywood franchise...

        But I think they released a exhibition book to go along with this that has a lot of his artwork in there as well

  • ge96 3 hours ago
    > Future Boy Conan

    That's what that giant flying wing warship is from