Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind


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Hiroyuki

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Nausicaä & Teto
The film of Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (Kaze no Tani no Naushika) has been a favourite of mine since before I even knew who Miyazaki was, but this week I finally read the manga too.

As I waded into the 1100 pages, my first reaction was that I preferred the film: the manga is a tale of unrelenting war, with little of the beauty of the film to counterbalance the carnage. Moreover, in the film, Nausicaä’s mystical powers are hinted at rather than being drilled through your head on every page, and her role as messiah and fulfiller of ancient prophesies is left to the viewer’s imagination until a scene at the end, rather than being shouted from the rooftops by everyone she comes into contact with.

Nevertheless there are a couple of things to be said for the manga: it is very plot heavy and gives you plenty of food for thought, particularly about the nature of life and humankind’s role in the world.

And then there’s the ending, where Nausicaä has the end product of thousands of years of civilisation: the sum total of human knowledge, in her grasp—and destroys it! I really liked that. Nausicaä wanted life to be free, unconstrained by the dead weight of human history and the sterile edifice of technological achievement.
 
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