Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1
An epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by the legendary director Hayao Miyazaki!
In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving indistrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air.At the periphery of the sea, tiny kingdoms are scattered on tiny parcels of land. Here lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens; a nation given fragile protection from the decaying sea's poisons by the ocean breezes; and home to Nausicaä.
Nausicaä, a young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant Ohmu insects and animals of every creed. She fights to create tolerance, understanding and patience among empires that are fighting over the world's remaining precious natural resources.
Loved by our collective!
If you read all seven volumes (it requires a bit of patience...), the ending is so different from the movie! (Warning that the war violence is more explicit and graphic in the books. The depiction of the unique world is more detailed and beautiful too.) An 80s exploration of survival as humans, nature, and technology in an apocalyptic world. Nausicaä may be almost too idealized, but love her flying with the wind, searching the secret of the world with animals like a squirrel-fox, bird-horses, and sacred insects.
Product Details
- Paperback
- 136 pages
- ISBN
- 9781591164081
- Publisher
- VIZ Media LLC (2/11/04)
- Tags
Tags
solarpunk
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