• Esteban/ Lost Cities of Gold
• Like the Cloud, Like the Wind
• Little Nemo
• Nadia
• Pippi Longstockings
• Romeo's Blue Sky

Q: Did Miyazaki made "Esteban/ Lost Cities of Gold"?

No. It was animated by Studio Pierrot in 1982. Miyazaki was at Telecom, making "Sherlock Hound" then.

Q: Did Miyazaki/Ghibli make "Like the Cloud, Like the Wind"?

No. That's another Miyazaki, Akira Miyazaki, who wrote the script. It doesn't help that at least one fansub does mistakenly list Hayao Miyazaki as the scriptwriter. The only Ghibli connection to this anime is that a Ghibli animator, Katsuya Kondo, who did character design of "Kiki" did character design of "LTC, LTW". Some say the heroine, Ginga looks like Oriental Kiki.

Q: Did Miyazaki/Takahata make "Little Nemo"?

Yes and No. "Little Nemo" was an American/Japanese joint project, and Miyazaki and Takahata were involved in the pre-production stage during 1982-83. However, due to the creative differences with the American producers, both quit the project. It was finally made into a movie with different staff members, and released in 1989 in Japan.

There has been some rumor that two pilot films in the Japanese "Nemo" LD box set were done by Miyazaki and Takahata, but actually, they were done by Yoshifumi Kondo and Osamu Dezaki, respectively.

Q: Did Miyazaki make "Nadia"?

No. However, Nadia was originally a Miyazaki project. In the mid-1970s Miyazaki was working on stories for television for an animation company, Toho. One of which was to be called Around the World in 80 Days by Sea. This story would follow the adventures of two young orphans fleeing an evil power or government while being helped by some bumbling bad guys and the mysterious Captain Nemo and the Nautilus. The project was eventually shelved, but Miyazaki incorporated several of the elements of this story into the series he eventually made for NHK in the late 1970s, "Future Boy Conan". Some of these same elements reappeared later in 1986 in "Laputa". In the late 1980s, when NHK and Toho approached Gainax about doing a television series they suggested this story idea, and Gainax took it. To know more about "Nadia" and its similarity to "Laputa", visit the Marc Hairston's page.

Q: Did Miyazaki/Takahata make "Pippi Longstockings"?

No. But they very much wanted to. In 1971, Miyazaki and Takahata quit Toei Doga, and moved to A Pro to make "Pippi Longstockings" into a TV series. They put a lot into this project, but the author, Astrid Lindgren did not give a permission to the project, so it was never materialized. After this disappointment, Miyazaki and Takahata made a movie, "Panda Kopanda". The little girl in this movie, Mimiko looks a lot like Pippi, with freckles and red pigtails.

(An Imageboard of "Pippi")

Q: Did Ghibli make "Romeo no Aoi Sora (Romeo's Blue Sky)" ?

No. It's one of the Nippon Animation World Masterpiece Theater, so we could say it's somewhat Miyazaki/Takahata related. SATO Yoshiharu, the character designer of "Romeo" was the supervising animator of "Totoro", so that could explain the "Ghibli look" of characters. Actually, there is another hidden connection to Miyazaki/Takahata. Sato was having a hard time designing the main character, Romeo. Then he saw the old pictures taken in Switzerland when Miyazaki and Takahata went there for location hunting for "Heidi". He saw a village boy in one picture, and "This is it!" and made Romeo after him. So we could say, if not for Miyazaki and Takahata, there was no Romeo ^_-.