The Boy And The Heron - Anime Comic Vol 1

Japan during World War II. Mahito, an 11-year-old boy who lost his mother in a fire, leaves Tokyo with his father and moves into a large mansion called ``Aosagi House''. Masato has mixed feelings about his overbearing father and his late mother's sister Natsuko, who has become his new mother, so he hurts himself and shuts himself at home. The person who approaches Masato is a ``heron man'' who goes back and forth between a blue heron and a human form. Guided by the heron man, Masato wanders into a mysterious tower where his great-uncle, who was the owner of the mansion, disappears, and ends up being invited to another world.

This is the latest work in the long-awaited Studio Ghibli series, containing all the cuts and lines of director Hayao Miyazaki's first new feature film in 10 years, depicting his own childhood. This is the only book where you can learn all about the completed images of the anime, as it follows a strict advertising policy of not revealing the content of the work!