Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes

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…the truth is that I am happiest when I am writing about stupid airplanes and tanks in magazines like Model Graphix [4] [5]

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. Additionally, "The Pig Tiger" (Buta no Tora), was released from October to November 1992 issues. The serialization resumed in 1998 under the title Hayao Miyazaki's Delusion Notes, and it was collected in 2002, with included "Buta no Tora" sequels "The Return of Hans" (Hans no Kikan), originally serialized from March to September 1994 issues, and "Doromamire no Tora" (a manga adaptation of Otto Carius's war memoir, Tigers in the Mud), originally serialized from December 1998 to May 1999 issues. Miyazaki published the manga series illustrating the life of Jiro Horikoshi, The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) (later adapted into his film of the same name), in Model Graphix from April 2009 to January 2010 issues as a continuation of the Delusional Notes series.

Books

Selections from his Daydream Notes have been bundled in book form, published by Dainippon Kaiga in December 1992. [6] In August 1997 a revised and expanded edition was released by the same publisher. [7] The first edition does not contain Hikōtei Jidai . [6] [7]

The annotated manga "The Return of Hans" (ハンスの帰還, Hans no Kikan) is not included in either edition but appears in a different collection, Tigers in the Mud: Hayao Miyazaki's Delusion Notes (泥まみれの虎 宮崎駿の妄想ノート, Doromamire no Tora Miyazaki Hayao no Mōsō Nōto), published by Dainippon Kaiga in August 2002. [8]

The Wind Rises was collected into one volume by Dainippon Kaiga in October 2015. [9]

Installments / Contents

  1. Shirarezaru Kyojin no Mattei
  2. Kōtetsu no Ikuji
  3. Tahōtō no Deban
  4. Noufu no Me
  5. Ryū no Kōtetsu
  6. Kyūshū Jōkū no Jūgōsakuki
  7. Kōshahōtō
  8. Q-ship
  9. Anshōmaru Monogatari
  10. London Jōkuu 1918-nen
  11. Saihin Zensen
  12. Hikōtei Jidai, an early version of Porco Rosso
  13. Buta no Tora

Radio broadcast

In 1995, Miyazaki's Daydream Notes was turned into a series of radio broadcasts for Nippon Broadcasting System. When commenting on this dramatisation in an interview for Tokuma Shoten's Animage 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." [10] [11]

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Bibliography

Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes
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Cover of the collected Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes (1997 edition)
宮崎駿の雑想ノート
(Miyazaki Hayao no Zassō nōto)