Serialization in a newspaper of a feature film by Toei Doga (Toei Animation Studio), for which Miyazaki worked as a key animator. Based on Charles Perrault's book. Pero, the dandy cat, helps a boy defeat an Ogre and win the heart of a princess.
Written for a newspaper targeted for children. It deals with the devastation of war, betrayal, and the ugliness of the human nature under desperate situations.
Serialization in a newspaper of a feature film by Toei Doga (Toei Animation Studio), for which Miyazaki worked as a key animator. A slapstick adventure story based on Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Precursor and partial adaptation of the anime film of the same name, with a much more extended plot than the film.
Imouto he (To my Sister)
1982
A six-page graphic poem about a dream a boy has in which he and his sick twin sister fly and travel around the world, and he can bring happiness to her.
An all-watercolor 147 page manga considered by some as a Nausicaä prototype. It's about a prince of a very poor country who journeys in search of the Golden Wheat to save his people from starving.
Series of manga (or rather, "graphic essays") which Miyazaki has very sporadically wrote in a Japanese monthly scale model magazine, Model Graphix. They are totally independent manga stories, mecha ideas, or movie ideas about tanks, planes, or battle ships from the era before World War II - the "favorites" of Miyazaki.
A 15-page all watercolor manga, which the animated film Porco Rosso is based on. It was serialized in Model Graphix, as a part of Miyazaki's Zassō Nōto series.
Hansu no Kikan (The Return of Hans)
1994
An all-watercolor manga based on the fictional adventures of Hans, a German chief tank mechanic, at the end of World War II, serialized in Model Graphix.
Kuuchuu de Oshokuji (Dining in the Air)
An all-watercolor short manga about the history of in-flight meals.
Doromamire no Tora (Tigers in the Mud)
1998–99
An all-watercolor manga based on the memoirs of Otto Carius, a German tank commander. It was serialized in Model Graphix, under a new series name Mousou Nouto (Delusion Notes).
A Trip to Tynemouth
2006
An adapted manga version of a translated collection of three of the young adult short stories written by Robert Westall.