Jason Furman's Reviews > Shuna's Journey

Reading this graphic novel feels like watching a Miyazaki film. The same types of imagery, the same hero quest, the same legendary/mythic backdrop, although in this case less steampunk and Europe and more Asia. That said, there is a reason Miyazaki is known for his films and not for this--film is a much better medium to accomplish all of this. So in some ways this book (published in 1983 in Japan, before he created Studio Ghibli) feels like sketches for what was to come--but sketches that are interesting in and of themselves.