Hayao Miyazaki had long aspired to make an anime of this work and had repeatedly asked for permission from the author, Ursula K. Le Guin.

* Laputa: Castle in the Sky, an anime by Hayao Miyazaki, which centers on a floating city.

* In Hayao Miyazaki's 1979 anime film, The Castle of Cagliostro, Count Cagliostro utilizes an autogyro, notably against Lupin and company when they attempt to escape his castle residence with Clarisse in tow.

The manga and 1984 anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, was indirectly inspired by the character in the Odyssey.

* Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ( an anime that was based on a similar idea by Hayao Miyazaki )

Another likely inspiration was Hayao Miyazaki's Horseclaws, which appear in the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and the anime film of the same name, which Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi once cited as an influence on his series.

The game's story appears to be somewhat influenced by that of the Hayao Miyazaki anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and some aspects of the art design appear to be, as well ( for example, the giant insect boss in the swamp appears almost identical to the Ohmu giant insects seen in the movie ).

In 1971, Japanese animators Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata had expressed great interest in doing an anime feature adaptation of Pippi Longstocking.

" White also said The Hidden Fortress " clearly influenced Hayao Miyazaki's anime feature Princess Mononoke.

Hols is often seen as the first major break from the normal anime style and the beginning of a later movement of " auteuristic " or " progressive anime " which would eventually involve directors such as Hayao Miyazaki ( creator of Spirited Away ) and Mamoru Oshii.

* Hayao Miyazaki, anime animator and filmmaker

His favorite anime is Castle in the Sky by Hayao Miyazaki.

That same year, he also produced the theme song for Hayao Miyazaki's popular anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, " Kaze no Tani no Naushika ", with vocals by actress-singer Narumi Yasuda.

On Saturday, March 18, 2006, just past the block's ninth anniversary, Toonami began airing A Month of Miyazaki, a four-week celebration of the works of acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki.

This film marks the first collaboration between Kitano and composer Joe Hisaishi, who had previously created the acclaimed soundtracks of many of Hayao Miyazaki's anime films, including Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

* The story was adapted in the 1971 anime, storyboarded by Hayao Miyazaki.

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In response to the growing otaku fetishization of cute female characters in anime and manga, Japanese animator and self-avowed feminist Hayao Miyazaki has stated:

His model inherits the atelier system which has long existed in Japanese painting, printmaking and sculpture, and is common to anime and manga enterprises, such as Hayao Miyazaki ’ s Studio Ghibli.

Initially she was the winner of a competition to find a singer to sing the theme song and promote Hayao Miyazaki's now-popular anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, " Kaze no Tani no Naushika ", composed by Haruomi Hosono ( former Yellow Magic Orchestra member ).

To cut costs, several companies simply hacked together scenes from several Japanese anime movies that were obscure in America at the time, creating games like Cliff Hanger ( from Hayao Miyazaki's Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro and Lupin III: Mystery of Mamo ) and Bega's Battle ( from Harmagedon ), both of which were released roughly around the same time as Dragon's Lair.

Docter is a fan of anime, particularly the work of Hayao Miyazaki.

The deer-like creature on the Jade box art is an altered version of the forest spirit Shishigami from Hayao Miyazaki's anime Princess Mononoke.

In April 1963, Miyazaki got a job at Toei Animation, working as an in-between artist on the anime Watchdog Bow Wow ( Wanwan Chushingura ) Also known as Ken the wolf boy.

Miyazaki then left Nippon Animation in 1979 in the middle of the production of Anne of Green Gables to direct his first feature anime The Castle of Cagliostro ( 1979 ), a Lupin III adventure film.

When Le Guin finally requested that Miyazaki produce an anime adaptation of her work, he refused, because he had lost the desire to do so.

In 1971, Takahata and Miyazaki requested to direct episodes seven and onward of the first Lupin III TV series anime ,< ref >

For the dogfight between Porco and Donald Chuck ( the character was renamed Donald Curtiss in the anime ), Miyazaki wrote ; " If this were animation, I might be able to convey the grandeur of this life-or-death battle.

Kotabe then worked as character designer on two anime television series from Nippon Animation: Heidi, Girl of the Alps and 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother, with Miyazaki working on scene design and layout and Takahata working as series director and storyboard artist.

The Little is unique in the area in treating anime films as artistic cinema, and titles by the likes of Hayao Miyazaki always find their way to The Little's screens.

The manga was first adapted into a theatrical anime film adaptation in 1995, titled Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii.

A film called Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society, was created after the anime series and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, premiering on the SKY Perfect satellite television network on September 1, 2006.

is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise Studios and directed by Kazuki Akane.

is a manga by Chiho Saito and anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara.

The anime series is produced by TNK, with co-production by Pioneer, LDC, and is directed by Yuji Yamaguchi.

The Martian Successor Nadesico anime was directed by Tatsuo Sato and produced by TV Tokyo, Xebec, and Yomiko Advertising, Inc.

Two anime series directed by Tomino ( Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979-80 and Space Runaway Ideon in 1980 ) won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award.

Tomino is noted for directing several well-known anime series throughout his career, such as his most notable work, the Mobile Suit Gundam series, beginning in 1979, and which was later followed onto numerous sequels, spinoffs and merchandising franchises, Aura Battler Dunbine, Brave Raideen ( in which he directed the first 26 episodes ), and numerous others.

Certain sources cite this series as the origin of a nickname used by some anime fans,, although it should be noted that Tomino had directed and worked in a number of series in which the vast majority of the protagonists survive .< ref >

is a Japanese anime franchise written by Ryoe Tsukimura and directed by Hiroki Hayashi.

His role in the affair of the diamond necklace scandal is depicted in a 2001 American historical drama film, The Affair of the Necklace, directed by Charles Shyer, and in the anime Rose of Versailles.

These adaptations include a twelve-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998 ; a live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999 ; and a 43-episode anime television series, aired in Japan by Fuji Television and Animax from June 1999 to September 2000.

Tekken: Blood Vengeance, a full-length CGI-animated anime film in Digital 3D, directed by Youichi Mouri, premiered in United States in 2011 and was released in Japan two months later that same year.

is a Japanese anime series directed by Takeshi Mori and created by Gonzo and Media Factory animation studios.

is a series of science fiction mecha anime, directed by Shōji Kawamori of Studio Nue in 1982.

Turn A Gundam was the last Gundam anime TV series to be directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who was the main creator of the Gundam franchise and had written and directed many previous Gundam works.

, also known as s. CRY. ed or Scryed, is a 26 episode Japanese anime TV series, produced by Sunrise, directed by Gorō Taniguchi and written by Yōsuke Kuroda, which first aired in Japan on TV Tokyo and Animax.

The Wolf's Rain anime series was produced by BONES and directed by Tensai Okamura.

Then, in 2003, Watanabe directed his first American-produced anime, the short films Kid's Story and A Detective Story, both part of The Animatrix, an anthology of animated shorts of back stories from The Matrix.

He most recently directed the anime television series Kids on the Slope ( Japanese title Sakamichi no Apollon ), which premiered in April 2012 on Fuji TV's Noitamina block.

Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Ghost in the Shell, and Patlabor 2.

In 1999, the Oshii-scripted Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, the anime feature film adaptation of the manga's first volume, was directed by Oshii's collaborator Hiroyuki Okiura, and was released in International Film Festivals starting in France.