Hello all i have a question.
I just got hold of a autograph from miyazaki but i would like your opinion if it is real or not.
I sent it to Studio ghibli but got no reply.
thanks allready.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/gatchaman195/P1010013-1.jpg


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/gatchaman195/P1010012-1.jpg

My gut feel is that it's bogus--but I'm not positive. While Miyazaki's handwriting is pretty illegible to me (I've tried to make sense of his notes in some of the storyboards), this signature makes no sense in Japanese. It was written by somebody who has a good familiarity with Japanese cursive style, however, and might actually be his if he were trying to sign in English or some other writing system.

My question is, what manga/comic is that? At first glance I immediately thought "Pazu and Sheeta" then saw they were on a ship at sea rather than in an airship but the second view made me think "Sheeta" again at once.

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Thats conan, future boy.
Not laputa

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Originally posted by Saddletank
My question is, what manga/comic is that? At first glance I immediately thought "Pazu and Sheeta" then saw they were on a ship at sea rather than in an airship but the second view made me think "Sheeta" again at once.

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Originally posted by dballred
If you haven't seen Future Boy Conan, you're missing one of the best Miyazakis ever. When I first saw it, the first thing that came to my mind was "Laputa," but it's 26 episodes of a great story. Miyazaki got a lot of his inspiration for Laputa from this series.

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I second Dballred. Conan is essential for a good understanding of Miyazaki's later work, and is just an all-around masterpiece (and it's the source of my username too ). It's unlicensed in most (all?) Anglophone countries, so here's a link to all the episodes, fansubbed, on crunchyroll.com: http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/CRSerie...i_Shounen_Conan

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Thats good and all but i am still not a step further if it is the real thing or not.
The seller was Italian and he said he got it while he and Miyazaki was in the Usa.

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Originally posted by gatchaman
Thats good and all but i am still not a step further if it is the real thing or not.
The seller was Italian and he said he got it while he and Miyazaki was in the Usa.

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Originally posted by dballred
It's his signature.

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Originally posted by Maho_Fushida

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Originally posted by dballred
It's his signature.

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Wow, that is fantastic! A manga signed by Miyazaki himself!

When you say it makes no sense do you mean the kanji itself is nonesense? I suppose most signatures are like that. Mine is just a squiggle, no way could you see my name in it, so I do not see why Japanese signatures should be different.

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Well I tried digging up every search clues I got, but I couldn't find any picture of his autograph. The only things I found are his doodles of Totoro and himself as a pig.

And like dballred said, the signature itself doesn't make sense.

So unfortunately, gatchaman, unless someone else has better luck in finding an actual picture of his autograph, we can't authenticate that for you.

I can however, recommend you to the Nausicaa.net's ghibli mailing list.

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Originally posted by fenkashi
Screw your opinions, they are not relevant ^^.

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Darn that Lepka!

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