Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes

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.{{Sfn |McCarthy | 2002 | p = 27}}

{{Blockquote | …the truth is that I am happiest when I am writing about stupid airplanes and tanks in magazines like Model Graphix…{{Refn |{{Citation | last = Miyazaki | first = Hayao | title = Interview | date = October 1989 | work = Comic Box}}.}}{{Sfn |McCarthy | 2002 | p = 163}}}}

Installments of Daydream Notes were irregularly printed. Episodes occasionally appeared in the November 1984 through May 1990 issues of the monthly magazine Model Graphix. Among them, {{Nihongo|The Age of the Flying Boat|飛行艇時代|Hikōtei Jidai}} (later adapted into Porco Rosso) was released from March to May 1989 issues. Additionally, {{Nihongo|"The Pig Tiger"|豚の虎|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 "The Pig Tiger" sequels {{Nihongo|"The Return of Hans"|ハンスの帰還|Hans no Kikan}}, originally serialized from March to September 1994 issues, and {{Nihongo|"Tigers in the Mud"|泥まみれの虎|Doromamire no Tora}} (a manga adaptation of Otto Carius's war memoir of the same name), originally serialized from December 1998 to May 1999 issues. Miyazaki published the manga series illustrating the life of Jiro Horikoshi, {{Nihongo|The Wind Rises|風立ちぬ|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.

Selections from his Daydream Notes have been bundled in book form, published by Dainippon Kaiga in December 1992.{{cite book |url= http://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I000002222046-00 |script-title=ja:宮崎駿の雑想ノート

|trans-title=Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Notes |last=Miyazaki |first= Hayao | date= December 1992 |via=National Diet Library |publisher=Dainippon Kaiga | language= ja | isbn= 449920602-2 | access-date= December 16, 2013}} The first edition does not contain The Age of the Flying Boat, which was published as a separate book in July of the same year. In August 1997 a revised and expanded edition was released by the same publisher.{{cite book |url= http://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I000002665277-00 |script-title=ja:宮崎駿の雑想ノート増補改訂版 |trans-title=Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Notes | edition = rev. & exp. |last= Miyazaki |first= Hayao | date= August 1997 |via=National Diet Library |publisher= Dainippon Kaiga | language= ja | isbn= 449922677-5 | access-date= December 16, 2013}}

The annotated manga "The Return of Hans" is not included in either edition but appears in a different collection, {{Nihongo|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.{{cite book |url= http://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I000003672791-00 | script-title=ja:泥まみれの虎 : 宮崎駿の妄想ノート |trans-title=Tigers in the Mud: Hayao Miyazaki's delusional notes |last= Miyazaki |first= Hayao | date=August 2002 |via=National Diet Library |publisher=Dainippon Kaiga | language= ja | isbn= 449922790-9 | access-date= December 16, 2013}}

The Wind Rises was collected into one volume by Dainippon Kaiga in October 2015.{{Cite book |last=宮崎 |first=駿 |title=風立ちぬ 宮崎駿の妄想カムバック |date=8 October 2015 |publisher=Dainippon Kaiga |isbn=978-4-499-23167-1 |language=Japanese}}

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
13. Buta no Tora

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."{{Refn|{{Citation | last = Miyazaki | first = Hayao | date = December 1995 | work = Animage | type = interview | title = My Random Thoughts Notebook is my Hobby}}.}}{{Sfn | Miyazaki | 2009 | pp = 244–6}}

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• {{Citation | last= McCarthy | first= Helen | author-link= Helen McCarthy | orig-year= 1999 | title= Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation | year = 2002 | url= http://www.stonebridge.com/shopexd.asp?id=210 | location= Berkeley, CA | publisher= Stone Bridge Press | isbn= 1-88065641-8 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203192230/http://www.stonebridge.com/shopexd.asp?id=210 | archive-date= 2013-12-03}}.
• {{Citation | last= Miyazaki | first= Hayao | author-link= Hayao Miyazaki | date= August 4, 2009 | title= Starting Point 1979–1996 | publisher= Viz Media | url= http://www.viz.com/books/print/starting-point-1979-1996-volume-1/5855 | pages= 244–46 | isbn= 978-1-4215-0594-7 | access-date= December 16, 2013 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140828232509/http://www.viz.com/books/print/starting-point-1979-1996-volume-1/5855 | archive-date= August 28, 2014}}.

• {{cite web |url=http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/zassou.html |title=Nausicaa.net |access-date=2007-04-18 }}

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