Studio Ghibli Question Time : The French Connection

A page from Arzach and the Space Jockey clearly shows its influence on Miyazaki. The desert landscape, blue sky and mode of transport are all clearly related to his work on Nausicä of the Valley of the Wind.

Among the many fascinating questions at my Seed Talks in the West Country was one about the influence of comic art on Studio Ghibli. I’d talked about Takahata’s lifelong passion for French culture and about the many and varied Western influences on Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind, but there’s a limit to how […]