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Image Board Collection series turns spotlight on two classic Studio Ghibli anime<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Studio Ghibli<\/strong> co-founder Hayao Miyazaki<\/strong> is famous for having a very hands-on approach to anime production, to the extent that he\u2019ll sometimes just draw over an animator\u2019s draft<\/a> rather than verbally explain the changes he wants made. So Whisper of the Heart<\/strong> sticks out in his filmography, since it\u2019s the only Ghibli film for which Miyazaki handled scriptwriting duties all by himself, but didn\u2019t direct the movie.<\/p>\n This doesn\u2019t mean that Miyazaki didn\u2019t have any visual ideas for Whisper of the Heart<\/em>, though. As someone who\u2019s pretty much always dreaming and drawing, Miyazaki created a number of pre-production concept illustrations and storyboard segments<\/strong> for the film, including several for the in-anime story being written by protagonist Shizuku. And while Miyzaki\u2019s artwork didn\u2019t show up on the screen, it is included in a new book from publisher Iwanami Shoten, which includes illustrations that will be shown to the public for the very first time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Iwanami Shoten is getting ready to release the sixth volume in its Hayao Miyazaki Image Board Collection<\/strong> series<\/a>. \u201cImage board\u201d is used here as a collective term for various kinds of pre-production art, which give fans a behind-the-scene look at how ideas and designs evolved from their initial states to what audiences eventually saw in the beloved Ghibli classics.<\/p>\n Whisper of the Heart<\/em> made its Japanese theatrical debut in 1995, and screenings also include On Your Mark<\/strong>, a Ghibli-animated music video for the song of the same name by Japanese pop duo Chage and Aska. Miyazaki both wrote and directed On Your Mark<\/em>, which veteran Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki recalls was a liberating release valve from the difficulties Miyazaki was going through while trying to crystalize his ideas for Princess Mononoke<\/em>, which would come out two years later, in 1997.<\/p>\n \u25bc On Your Mark<\/em><\/p>\n Miyazaki\u2019s concept art for On Your Mark<\/em> is also included in the new book<\/strong>. A story of two policemen in a futuristic dystopia helping an angel-winged girl escape captivity, Miyazaki clearly had more ideas than could be fit into On Your Mark\u2019s<\/em> sub-seven-minute running time, and the concept art might provide glimpses of the wider world beyond what there was time to show on-screen.<\/p>\n In total. Miyazaki Hayao Image Board Collection 6: Whisper of the Heart and On Your Mark<\/em> contains 178 pieces of artwork<\/strong>, 21 for Whisper of the Heart<\/em> and the remainder for On Your Mark<\/em>. It\u2019s priced at 6,160 yen (US$40) goes on sale June 4, and is available online from Amazon Japan and Rakuten (here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n Source: PR Times<\/a>, Iwanami Shoten<\/a><\/em> Image Board Collection series turns spotlight on two classic Studio Ghibli anime. Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is famous for having a very hands-on approach to anime production, to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/ma-2.jpg?w=640\")
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