I liked that it included 'Crouching Tiger', 'Bride With White Hair', 'Zu', 'Legend of Zu', and 'Princess Mononoke'.
I wondered whether in fact, this was my humble contribution to HQ, since this list of films was suggested by me as views on HW a few months back on the list. However, knowing Robin's tastes, I'm sure that he came up with those completely independently (but I can still proudly have delusions, can't I 8).
I was a little disappointed though that Mononoke-Hime made it on the list, but Nausicaa did not, as I think Nausicaa is every bit as Hero Warsish as Mononoke-Hime is.
(Indeed, I think the HQ engine would work wonderfully for play in just about any Miyazake-like universe.)
> I'm sure just about everybody's two-page heroquest
> bibliography would be extremely different. I was a bit
> surprised there were no comics - Sandman, Beanworld, Lone Wolf
> and Son... But once you start on lists like this, you can go
> on almost forever.
Or Bone! Don't forget Bone! Bone and the Rose mini-series are very good inspiration for HQ I think. They have the same kind of interesting balance between humour and deep, mythic fantasy evident in Glorantha itself.
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