Astounding
5 stars
I had only ever watched the movie and didnt realize that the manga existed. This was an incredible fleshing out of the world and the story.
Graphic novel, 136 pages
English language
Published March 18, 2004
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1
5 stars
(2 reviews)
In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial 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 emphatic 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.
Review of 'Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Box Set' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
An incredible journey. If you've seen the movie, it corresponds roughly with the two first books, albeit in a bit simplified manner. The manga is more of the same, but delves much deeper into the dynamics of the world and builds upon the same themes of environmentalism, anti-war and sacrifice. The manga is more gritty, the horrors of war and its effects on the psyche are not downplayed and all this culminates in a highly thought-provoking philosophical combat about existence itself.
I could find some parallels with Frank Herbert's Dune, with a hostile world that is much more than it seems at first glance, and with a messianic figure, a noble from far away lands who befriends the natives and trancends their role to become a determined and fierce force of their own.
In this age of political tumult and environmental crisis, I think this book is as important as …
An incredible journey. If you've seen the movie, it corresponds roughly with the two first books, albeit in a bit simplified manner. The manga is more of the same, but delves much deeper into the dynamics of the world and builds upon the same themes of environmentalism, anti-war and sacrifice. The manga is more gritty, the horrors of war and its effects on the psyche are not downplayed and all this culminates in a highly thought-provoking philosophical combat about existence itself.
I could find some parallels with Frank Herbert's Dune, with a hostile world that is much more than it seems at first glance, and with a messianic figure, a noble from far away lands who befriends the natives and trancends their role to become a determined and fierce force of their own.
In this age of political tumult and environmental crisis, I think this book is as important as ever.