Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes (Miyazaki Hayao no ZassōNōto) is the collective name for Hayao Miyazaki's annotated manga 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. [1] Game designer Kazuma Kujo stated in a 2012 Retro Gamer article that the book served as inspiration during development of the 1996 video game Metal Slug . [2]
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. [3]