As I've recently gotten back to playing The Legend of Zelda on the Wii, 2 words struck me over and over again (alright, maybe closer to 4 or 5, but they're all interrelated), and that is....HAYAO MIYAZAKI!

Why Hayao Miyazaki? Well, if you don't want any spoilers, don't read on any further, but unlike me, I'm quite sure many readers here have already gone much, much further than me. =P

When you first see the Twilight world and the "Boom Tube" the weird designs just screamed "NAUSICAA!" over and over again. Any manga readers of Miyazaki's Nausicaa will notice how eeriely similar many of the architecture and style of the twilight bad guys are very much like that found in the organic "lost" technology in Nausicaa, or when you save the First Guardian of Light, it looked very much like the Deer of Nature found in Princess Mononoke. Even the Second Guardian of Life's art style reminds me very much of how Miyazaki would drove kami-like nature deities and so on.

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Is it my imagination going wild, or do you see it too? Post on, dear readers!