Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes

Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes (Miyazaki Hayao no Zassō Nōto) 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 Metal Slug.[2]

Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes
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)
Manga
Written byHayao Miyazaki
Published byDainippon Kaiga
MagazineModel Graphix
Original runNovember 1984 – October 1994
Volumes1

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.[3]

…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.

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 covered with 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]

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."[9][10]

Notes

    References
    1. Miyazaki 2009, pp. 244–46.
    2. Szczepaniak, John (January 2012). "The Making Of: Metal Slug". Retro Gamer. No. 98. Imagine Publishing. pp. 24–31. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
    3. McCarthy 2002, p. 27.
    4. Miyazaki, Hayao (October 1989), "Interview", Comic Box.
    5. McCarthy 2002, p. 163.
    6. Miyazaki, Hayao (December 1992). 宮崎駿の雑想ノート [Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Notes]. National Diet Library (in Japanese). Dainippon Kaiga. ISBN 449920602-2. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
    7. Miyazaki, Hayao (August 1997). 宮崎駿の雑想ノート増補改訂版 [Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Notes]. National Diet Library (in Japanese) (rev. & exp. ed.). Dainippon Kaiga. ISBN 449922677-5. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
    8. Miyazaki, Hayao (August 2002). 泥まみれの虎 : 宮崎駿の妄想ノート [Tigers covered in mud: Hayao Miyazaki's delusional notes]. National Diet Library (in Japanese). Dainippon Kaiga. ISBN 449922790-9. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
    9. Miyazaki, Hayao (December 1995), "My Random Thoughts Notebook is my Hobby", Animage (interview).
    10. Miyazaki 2009, pp. 244–6.

    Bibliography
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