“Jirou Horikoshi designs WWII Zero fighter while adapting a tragic love story with tuberculosis-stricken Setsuko.”
Kaze Tachinu: Miyazaki Hayao no Mousou Comeback
風立ちぬ 宮崎駿の妄想カムバック
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Synopsis
Jirou Horikoshi designs WWII Zero fighter while adapting a tragic love story with tuberculosis-stricken Setsuko.
Kaze Tachinu focuses on Jirou Horikoshi, the designer of Japan's famed Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane of World War II. It also adapts Tatsuo Hori's 1936–37 novelette of the same name, which follows the tentative relationship with a male narrator and Setsuko who suffers from encroaching tuberculosis.
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Kaze Tachinu: Miyazaki Hayao no Mousou Comeback begins and ends here.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 9 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 12m approx
- Published Feb 2009 – Nov 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M21030 catalog