As we noted last week, legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki may have left the world of anime, but he hasn't retired entirely. Instead, Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki revealed he's working on a samurai manga, set in the Sengoku (Warring States) period of Japanese history. And on Monday, Japan's NHK broadcast a first look at Miyazaki's progress.

Miyazaki actually drew his first manga, Puss in Boots, in 1969, but he is best known for his seven-volume Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which Viz Media recently reprinted as a two-volume boxed set; the first part of the story was the basis for his film of the same name.

Suzuki previously said last week that Miyazaki regards drawing as his "stress relief"; the manga will run in a magazine and that Miyazaki is doing it for free. Here's a look at the work in progress: