#Nausicaä

[manga-and-stuff]

Source: The Art of Nausicaä of the valley of the wind

by Hayao Miyazaki

Link to the full Artbook

[schweizercomics]

It's the 40th anniversary of the release of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind!

[daughter-of-the-hearth]

WHAT

this is genuinely one of the FUNNIEST edits I’ve seen holy shit

[rubynrut]

The odyssey as memes that found on tumblr

[seeseagulls]

[cruelangel94]

Happy 40th Anniversary Nausicaä!

[womeninfictionandirl]

Nausicaä by Julia Tveritina

[lyculuscaelus]

Don’t you wonder why there are no Phaeacians in Epic, out of every encounter?

Don’t you wonder why there are winions in the song Dangerous, out of every creature?

Don’t you wonder why there is a winion princess, out of everything?

Guys. The Phaeacians are also winions in Epic just like how Lotus-eaters are the winions. And here, Nausicaä is the winion princess.

[bebemoon]

look for the name: NAUSICAÄ

@wickedslip

alexander mcqueen "shipwrecked" runway sheer silk shredded top, s/s 2oo3

roberto cavalli leather mini skirt

paco rabanne chainlink crochet beanie

ancient future "the mirage of abyss" shell corsair imitation pearl necklace

a pair of venetian chopines, c. 17th cent.

[azertyrobaz]

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ), 1984

[glitchy-creations]

I finally finished all the kiddos!

I have a video on my tiktok (link in bio 😉) with little notes on all of them if anyone is interested, I just don’t feel like making another super long post. One thing that I will mention is the age order of the kids(

Telemachus is the oldest. He’s, approximately, in his mid-late 30’s

Telegonus is the second oldest. He’s, approximately, in his mid-late 20’s

Nausicaä and Poliporthes are twins and the third and fourth borns. They are both, approximately, in their mid-late teens with Nausicaä being a few minutes older than Poliporthes.

[manga-and-stuff]

Source: The Art of Nausicaä of the valley of the wind

by Hayao Miyazaki

Link to the full Artbook

[helenmask]

Nausicaa the gardener 

[valoniaart]

Nausicaa ✨

[geekysteven]

[meeblo]

It's so tiring seeing a post about Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind that starts out so strong, complaining that common looks at the "ghibli aesthetic" sand down both the actual art styles that ghibli movies use as well as the themes inherent to the works, only for that post to fall for the extremely common blunder so many of these sorts of posts fall into. It proceeds to describe what Nausicaa is "about" without discussing:

Any of the story from the source manga at all, which makes far more complex and nuanced points than the inherently limited movie that had to constantly shave down its script and make sacrifices in production to fit even 1/6th of the manga into a film.

Within the movie itself, any of the film's discussion on colonial occupation, the relationship between the colonial siphoning of resources and the perception of nature that hinders that as "valueless," and really any of the discussion on war at all seriously how the fuck do people manage to talk about Nausicaa without mentioning the elephant in the room

Discussion of Nausicaa's environmental messages are certainly not without merit, and it would be stupid to deny their presence in the story, but it is exhausting seeing people either deliberately dance around or somehow miss the hugely prevalent subjects of colonialism, weapons of mass destruction, the attempted suppression of native religions for the benefit of empire, gender roles, motherhood, racism, and more.

Even if you're solely looking at environmental messaging within the work, the manga has so much more to dig into. The level of complexity that the movie is able to cover in terms of the relationship between human life and the sea of corruption and the purpose that it serves on the Earth is like. Weenie Hut Jr. compared to the full reveals and discussions the manga gets into about the nature of the Ohmu and the Sea of Corruption. The movie's reveals about the sea of corruption are fundamentals the story needs to establish before moving to the much meatier thematic exploration that facilitates. Stopping there with only what the movie covers is just disappointing.

Miyazaki is a man with a lot of opinions about war and Nausicaa is arguably the work of his that most openly puts that at the forefront. To see that constantly pushed aside in favor of endlessly retreading the same points about the movie's limited depiction of the story's environmental messages is just sad.