Hayao Miyazaki and Metal Slug

Finch

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Paying Metal Slug X last night I realized why the art style and vehicles felt so familiar. It looks a lot like Hayao Miyazaki's older comics and sketches.


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totally looks like
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Especially the cockpit windows.
 
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Definitely similar influences. The 2nd and 3rd image didn't show up for me.

Was that first pic from Porco Rosso?
 

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Fixed the 2nd and 3rd, whoever posted these originally put brackets in the filename and the forum didn't like them.

It's not from Porco Rosso, but it was probably dont around the same time. I gather those pages are from work Miyazaki did for some minitures/models magazine in Japan, and he usually focused on WWII era stuff. A lot of the characters in those scans seem to be pigs, so it was definately related to Porco Rosso to some extent.

Slobodan Milošević;3048096 said:
Definitely similar influences. The 2nd and 3rd image didn't show up for me.

Was that first pic from Porco Rosso?
 

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The two Fios are also quite similar in design IMHO.
 

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You just reminded me I need to break out the slugs again.
 

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pretty neat,
I never really made the connection.
but the tank treads are pretty similar.
 

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Styling is definitely spot on. Perhaps some differences here and there but to me it looks like the same person doing both (even though I know it isn't).
 

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didn't you know?
The slugs in the first stage of Magician Lord are 'inspired' by nausicaa gorgons.

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its kinda similar but Masamune Shirow's tank police is without a doubt a heavy influence
 
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the neo geo has many influances from diferant manga.fatal fury takes from dragonball (tung fu ru).terry and rock take from lone wolf and cub,samurai showdown takes heavaly from ninja scroll.last resort takes from akira.it's great.
 
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