Hikōtei Jidai

Hikōtei Jidai (飛行艇時代; lit. 'The Age of the Flying Boat') is a manga by Hayao Miyazaki. A fifteen-page, all-watercolor work, it was published in Model Graphix, a monthly magazine about scale models, in three parts as a part of Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes series. It was published in English as Crimson Pig: The Age of the Flying Boat in the Animerica magazine, July to September 1993 issues, translated by Matt Thor. Like other manga in this series, Hikōtei Jidai is a manifestation of his love for old planes. It is filled with aircraft from the 1920s (heavily modified by Miyazaki) and their technical details, as well as with the men (good-hearted and silly) who love them. The manga received a film adaptation titled Porco Rosso in 1992.

Hikōtei Jidai was published as a book in July 1992 by Dainippon Kaiga. It has about sixty pages and includes the manga, several airplane vignettes, resin-kit models of aircraft, photos of some real counterparts of the floatplanes which appeared in the film, and some interviews with Miyazaki regarding airplane model kits. An expanded 72-page edition was published in 2004.