Unknown Mushihimesama scans

[Elaphe]

Today I've found these scans in my collection of Cave images. I don't know where I downloaded them from. They seem to belong to a book because the pages are numbered. Any idea?

http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/temp/book1.jpg
http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/temp/book2.jpg
http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/temp/book3.jpg
http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/temp/book4.jpg
http://www.alvarezeninternet.com/temp/book5.jpg

[Op Intensify]

Pages 2-3 must be concept art. Looks like an early design for Reco.

[Dave_K.]

They are from the INH "The Secret Lover" DVD book.

[Casey120]

Rancor still has one for sale .

[Elaphe]

Thanx.

Too expensive for a 70-page book, since I'm not interested in DVDs with superplays or audio tracks. However, do you know if the book comes sepparated from the case or CDs holder? In that case I could try selling here everything except the book.

[trap15]

Nice nipples.

[rancor]

Thanx.

Too expensive for a 70-page book, since I'm not interested in DVDs with superplays or audio tracks. However, do you know if the book comes separated from the case or CDs holder? In that case I could try selling here everything except the book.

Yes - the book is separate from the DVD/CD holder.

[O. Van Bruce]

Reco with pants would have been cool... that way it may have stayed with the same "attitude" as in the first mushi instead of becoming a moe shotacon princess in Futari.

[Op Intensify]

Isn't "shotacon princess" an oxymoron?

[AntiFritz]

no....

shotaro princess would be.

[BPzeBanshee]

book3 one looks like one of the Ibara/Pink Sweets characters to me. Is it just me?

[O. Van Bruce]

book3 one looks like one of the Ibara/Pink Sweets characters to me. Is it just me?

The same character designer was used for Mushi and Ibara/pink sweets.

[BPzeBanshee]

That explains a lot. You'd think he'd do something different but then again nothing wrong with good reuse of resources.

[KAI]

Seems like Reco was inspired in Nausica, at least on the early designs.

[hzt]

Definitely, I've looked through a copy of this book and you can see a Nausica influence in a lot of the concept art. The setting is similar too, with the small settlement of humans and a forest full of giant insects.

[mesh control]

no pan DD 15 year old tits

Into this shit

[chempop]

Mushi has always reminded me of Nausicaä, some of that concept art has even a closer resemblance. Also see Möbius comics for similar themed worlds, though his stuff tends to lean towards the cyber-fantasy side of things.

[O. Van Bruce]

Mushi is REALLY inspired on Nausica... you see, when the original movie and manga were released back on the eighties, there were a lot of videogame producers that approached Miyazaki to make a game about Nausicaa but all of the presented projects were rejected by Miyazaki: being a convinced pacifist as he is, he wouldn't let a game to use one of his characters on a violent gameplay.

Years passed and no one wanted to make a videogame until Cave proposed this new shooter inspired by the world of Nausicaa... as you can see, Reco was practically Nausicaa on the early designs but in the middle of production it seems that the design was changed in order to prevent any problems. The World of the Kojuu stayed the same though.

[Op Intensify]

There was actually a Nausicaa game for MSX. It remains the only video game ever made based on a Ghibli property. The only reason it was made is because Ghibli didn't exist yet; they were part of Tokuma Shoten and didn't yet have the creative control needed to prevent the project. Miyazaki is apparently a huge hater of games in general (as is Yoshiyuki Tomino, but that hasn't stopped Gundam from being milked to death across every gaming platform).

Also, "the nineties?" Nausicaa came out in 1984.

[O. Van Bruce]

There was actually a Nausicaa game for MSX. It remains the only video game ever made based on a Ghibli property. The only reason it was made is because Ghibli didn't exist yet; they were part of Tokuma Shoten and didn't yet have the creative control needed to prevent the project. Miyazaki is apparently a huge hater of games in general (as is Yoshiyuki Tomino, but that hasn't stopped Gundam from being milked to death across every gaming platform).

Also, "the nineties?" Nausicaa came out in 1984.

JAJAJAJA Dunno why, but my hands typed nineties instead of the eighties.

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

Bottom left of second scan is probably the nicest I've seen of Reco. Is that artist a regular at Cave?

[trap15]

I believe I read an interview somewhere that said that Mushi was inspired a ton by Nausicaa.