Tags: Manga.
Hikōtei Jidai (飛行艇時代 lit. The Age of the Flying Boat) is a fifteen-page all-watercolor manga on which the animated film Porco Rosso is based. It was published in Model Graphix in three parts a monthly magazine about scale models as a part of Hayao Miyazaki’s Zassou Note series. Like other manga in this series Hikōtei Jidai is a manifestation of his love for old planes.