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Hayao Miyazaki:

Is one of the greatest manga writers Japan
has ever produced.
He was born in 1941, in Tokyo. After graduating from
Gakushuin University with a degree in Economics,
he started his career as an animator at Toie Doga
(Toie Animation Studio) in 1963. From the beginning,
he commanded everyone´s attention with his incredible
ability to draw, and the seemingly endless stream of ideas he propesed for movies . As an animator, he was involved in many masterpieces of Japanese animation. He moved to A pro with Takahata in 1971, then to Nippon Animation in 1973. He directed his first TV series, "Mirai Shonen Conan" ( Future boy Conan) in 1978. In 1979, he left Nippon Animation for Tokyo Movie Shinsha to direct his first movie, " Lupin 111: The castle of Cagliostro". In 1982, he started serializing the manga, "Nausicaa of the valley of wind" in the anime magazine "Animage". In 1983, Tokuma approached him about making "Nausicaa" into anime, and the rest is history.