Two years ago the film made its way to our shores, and now Viz is bringing the Art of Nausicaa hardcover to store shelves. Despite being a box office sensation in Japan, Hollywood studios refused to release the film outside of a highly-edited version that Miyazaki himself asked fans to forget. Nausicaa and Miyazaki fans will find this book to be a nice collectible.Writer/Artist: Hayao Miyazaki Publisher: Viz Price: $34.99 It took over 20 years for Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa to reach Western shores in its original form. It's amazing to see how far Miyazaki has come. At the back is a longer piece of interview which looks at how the idea of making Nausicaa came about.Īll the drawings that appear in this book are drawn by Miyazaki, dating way back to 1982. You'll find a lot of interesting stuff regarding clashes with his artistic vision for the manga and film at that time. He talks about everything from his thoughts on drawing covers, which he dislikes, and drawing Nausicaa (character) out of character, which he dislike even more. There's plenty of accompanying commentary for the art. Since I've the other art book as well, I see a bit of duplication of drawings, but printed in different sizes. If you remove the dust jacket, you'll see some of the Animage covers that have been published.įor the film section, there are storyboards, background concept art and character designs.
Very beautiful and feels very different from the mainstream manga with the use of watercolour. The covers are printed huge, often fullpage. There aren't any comic panels but you'll see a lot of covers, such as those he did for Animage, a Japanese anime and entertainment magazine.
This one collects all the art created using watercolour for both the manga and film.Ībout half of the book is on the manga. Here's the other art book for Nausicaa, the other being The Art of Nausicaa.
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