The Art of Porco Rosso

For Animation Fans. I purchased this book for a gift. It provides an excellent look into Miyazaki's thoughts and visions for the story and animation. The preliminary illustrations are revealing. Highly recommend for fans of Porco Rosso.

One of the wonderful 'Art of' books for Miyazaki contains his preliminary sketches as well as artwork from the original manga this film was based off. I had to go through a few returns to get a decent, non-damaged copy as most of them are coming from third parties now. I particularly love Miyazaki's beautiful backgrounds and there are plenty of those offered here, esp. the glorious seascapes and Porco's hidden island hangout. Miya-san said he targeted this film to the middle-aged salary-man and he hit the mark, the book is a tremendous reminder of the magic of the film. Highly recommended.

Very excited to give this to my husband - his favorite movie! Already have two others and this is a must buy for a Ghibli fan!

Purchased for a friends birthday, beautiful artwork and cool insights into the wonderful movie that is Porco Rosso. If they are a big Studio Ghibli fan, they will love this!

nice quality and came in good condition

Now that Master Miyazaki has announced that he is retiring, and with no prospect for Porco Rosso II, this could be like a consolation for the future. From the technical point of view the book contains convincing sea planes from the “The Age of the Flying Boat” and likely prototypes or hybrids. It also contain some drawings of real and believable Pre WW I, and WW I planes. This book also may appeal anime fans of alternate history (although not that alternate). If you are a fan of Miyazaki and seaplanes, this is a must!

I love the movie Porco Rosso. I liked the book a lot. It described where the story came from, and the historical background. It also had a small section describing each character. The most interesting part is where they describe the various backgrounds. There honestly was not that much interesting information. I was expecting for an explanation of the ending of the movie. They didn't even mention the part of the movie where Marco and Curtis fought. They didn't mention that Porco may have became a human again, (because of Gina's love and Fio's kiss, and because Curtis kept asking to see Marco's face after they fought) or whether or not Gina and Marco ended up together. (Porco's plane could be seen in the background) Altogether, the book was good. I am glad that I bought it.

If you love the film of "Porco Rosso," you will totally enjoy this book. It's lovely.

È splendido!

Good quality, nice art from the classic

Plenty of behind the scenes text and artwork - if you loved the movie, you'll love this book, especially if you can pick it up at a good price.

Got this for gf. She collects Studio Ghibli work and this was a great addition to her collection. I did skim through pages and saw beautiful work anyone can get inspired by. I think there's about 20 films Studio Ghibli has made so collect all their ART OF books!

Totally worth the money. In comparison to the Princess Mononoke book there are much more concept sketches, and most of the short manga it is based on is also included. The only thing I did not like that mich is that there sure are a lot of typos and spaceerrors in the text. It overall seems a bit lazy translated, but as there is not much text anyhow, i can live with that. However, all the inportant things are in it and you get a good sense of how the movie was produced. I also liked that the whole movie was transcribed as a storybook at the end of the book. Would buy again, just as expected!