Takeshita Keiko

* Based on the children's fantasy novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton, which received the Carnegie Medal in 1952. A family of little people lives under the floorboards of an old house far out in the countryside, surviving by secretly borrowing items from the humans who inhabit it. One day, their existence is discovered by a kind young boy named Shou, who is visiting his…

The story is set in Showa 38 (1963, a year before the Tokyo Olympics) and follows the coming of age of a high school girl named Matsuzaki Umi. The manga recounts her everyday life of laughter and tears with a school newspaper member, the student council president, and other schoolmates. Source: ANN

Kaze Tachinu is adapted from Miyazaki's most recent colour comic, about the man who designed the Zero Fighter which was used in World War II.