@Loukas @delight_aug In the early seventies #miyazaki wanted to make a #Pippi #Longstocking :

> Initially, both men wanted to adapt Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking series, and, along with their mentor Yasuo Ōtsuka (who was animation director on these films, Horus, and a handful of other projects on this list), went to Sweden to beg permission, which was denied them.

https://www.vulture.com/article/hayao-miyazaki-isao-takahata-before-studio-ghibli-guide.html