Book to Studio Ghibli: Porco Rosso by Hayao Miyazaki

We are back with our special edition of the Pod! Book to Studio Ghibli, where we cover all the adaptations (or at least the ones we can get in English) from our favourite animation studio. This week we are looking at Porco Rosso, based on a comic that director Hayao Miyazaki created before adapting it to screen two years later. Porco Rosso was released in 1992, originally meant to a 30 min film for Japan Airlines but ended up as a full-length feature film. And we are thankful for that! 

I'm joined for this epic journey into Studio Ghibli by the talented Lauren O'Farrell and please check out her work out on Instagram and Twitter @deadlyknitshade.

As per usual spoilers aplenty! We break down the book and the film and try and figure out whether or not the original is the best or did they improve on the text.

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