Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
1995 • 288 pages

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Average rating3.3

15

I wanted to read the comic after watching the movie, cause the adaptation was so dense and intense, and I needed more backstory about the characters, yet somehow the comic is even denser. The art is beautiful but I can understand now why it took Miyazaki 13 years to finish the series.

The main point I got from the comic (more flagrant here than in the movie), is the fact that all these tribes are being attacked by the forest's protectors, the Ohmu, yet all they can think of doing is kill each other off, while finding ways to be even more destructive towards nature. It is the curse of humans bent upon expansionism.

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