#nausicaä manga

[balrog-slayer66]

Homage to Nausicaa by Moebius

[elizadraws]

私と共に生きてくれ。”I can’t tell you how happy I was when you chose to come back and leave the pure land unsullied. That’s when I realized that the purpose of this journey was for me to meet you. Live your life with me, Nausicaä.”

“Trust me Nausicaä, turn you body over to me for the moment. “

I turned some manga panels into movie stills, because I love Nausicaä and Selm, but the anime doesn’t even show us Selm.

[projectorthus]

Was in a silly goofy mood and colourized some pages from the Nausicaa manga. They’re a little rough around the edges because I Did This For Fun.

(To be clear I love and respect black and white comics and have nothing but respect for Miyazaki’s work, I just wanted to practice my comic colouring and happen to love this manga so much! All art by Hayao Miyazaki, colour by me)

[vampirerobot]

Heedra in Nausicaä

[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.

[dulaman-na-farraige]

What if we kissed in front of the flag of Tolmekia 😳🙈

It's been more than one year since I'd first drawn them together. It's insane how much their designs in my style changed since then. I've decided to change their color pallettes because there are a lot of references to South Asia in the worldbuilding and the designs but everyone is strangely white and this might have been the best decision in my life

[oilyfishtail]

loved her in the manga

[variasus]

Reminder to read the Nausicaa manga, also by Hayao Miyazaki. So many people are missing out on this great epic and setting full of interesting characters, and beautifully drawn too.

Unironically my favourite manga, been reading it every years since my childhood

[kushanna]

what are all the kushana and nausicaä parallels you think about?

so glad you asked. (also i'm going to assume you're talking about the manga)

what i usually begin by thinking about is something i saw on a random comment online one time, that the two of them gradually become more like one another as the story progresses. it's as if they develop in opposite directions, so that by the end they have approached what it feels like to be the other. which is good for kushana cause at the end she's in a much better place within herself than she was at the start, or at least she makes an effort to be, there's much more hope and love in the way she views and interacts with the world after meeting nausicaä, or maybe it's better to say that that love is now being channeled into a more positive direction, that it shows itself more and in a less destructive way. but it's not as good for nausicaä cause now she's seen and experienced and learned a whole lot of unpleasant things about the world, some of them the very unpleasant things that have always been a part of kushana's life, she's learned about other people too and became more compassionate, but all of that takes a toll on you. we see kushana act more affectionate and find sorrow in herself as the story progresses and, on the the other hand, we see nausicaä be more conscious of the anger and violence in her. while also feeling a lot of sorrow.

i think a lot about the environment they were raised in, cause i think that makes a huge difference in determining the differences and similarities between them. they were both sheltered, in a sense, since they were born and raised princesses, which is not a comparable background to someone like kurotowa's, for example, but there's a difference in their backgrounds as well. nausicaä was surrounded by kindness from other people all her life (i'll get to her mother in a minute), as much as she was being raised to succeed her father, learning how to sword fight, etc, the valley is very directly presented as a peaceful place, something that feels more like a large community at times than an actual full-blown monarchy. which is very different from the environment kushana was raised in, there was a lot of violence and hostility from an early age, she was very hurt from an early age and by people close to her, and the training she received was military, which in itself puts you in a very aggressive... worldview, if that makes sense. when kushana says that nausicaä is walking the path "she has chosen as she sees fit", nausicaä has chosen a path because she can choose it, because she gets to choose it, because it's "easy" for her too choose it. kushana can choose as well and she does so, but it takes a lot more effort and will and a lot more opening yourself up to it, which puts you in a very vulnerable position. which is something nausicaä naturally is, vulnerable.

i think what i want to say here is that, yes, they are very similar people and, given the right conditions, kushana has the same potential and is just as capable of goodness and kindness as nausicaä, and nausicaä is just as capable of being led by anger as kushana. there's that scene in early volume 5 where kushana says to master yupa that, during the insect attack in volume 4, she "found herself" doing exactly what nausicaä had taught, she "became aware" that she was singing, and then immediately afterwards says she would never try to "emulate" nausicaä like that again. this is so funny and sad to me cause i've always seen kushana as someone who acts very consciously, in the sense that she's always in full awareness of what she's doing, very self-aware and also just aware of things and the world in general. so on the one time she was not in full awareness of it, the one time she was not thinking about her actions, when she was acting mostly based on intuition, she behaved in a way that perfectly approached nausicaä. sweetheart... you are not "emulating" anything, this is who are you are. these are very telling scenes for me. i think the opposite example can be made for nausicaä early in the story, when she killed one of the torumekian soldiers and was immediately shocked at her own behavior, like she hadn't been in full awareness of herself in that moment of violence. (note that i am not saying that how they act unconsciously reveals the only truth about their character, since choosing to act a certain way is also very telling of who you are as a person, after all. what i'm saying is the unconscious acts do show different facets of them, facets that parallel one another).

there's also the stuff with their mothers, i made a post about it some time ago, i'm gonna just link it there cause otherwise i would have to copy and paste the whole thing here. basically, it feels like it's the same issue to me, but in opposite ways, in reverse. ironically, kushana being so loved by her mother and nausicaä not feeling loved, and then all the tragedy and grief and sorrow that came with it, which is so similar while being so different. there's other stuff as well, something about how they both end up being seen and looked up to as these "leaders", these people who will be necessary and valuable for the "new era" that's expected to come. i saw a comment once (i don't remember where) about how even if they're both seen as "leaders", nausicaä is actually more a guider. kushana would be the one with the actual leadership role, while nausicaä guides people, she gently steers them in the right direction, which i think is something nice to think about. and that leads me to another sort of parallel, which is how they both renounce their expected positions as new kings of their respective kingdoms. it lines up with the leader/guider thing, since kushana, while able to renounce the position of king, still takes on a leadership role. nausicaä doesn't, though, she's just there to gently guide people. they're both also very self-destructive. if i want to frame it in a nicer way i can say they're willing to sacrifice themselves for higher ideals and purposes, but it's borderline suicidal at times. which is something i feel like, with kushana, is sometimes very associated with a lack of self-worth, though i don't notice this with nausicaä.

i think i went on huge tangents and i miiiiiight have forgotten something important but i hope that's somewhat what you were expecting ^_^

[saltwatercatfish]

Just finished the Nausicaä manga and omg it was probably the best thing I’ve ever read (or laid my eyes upon. Absolutely stunning. And everything about it was fantastic from every character, to faction, to lore. Just stunning. Don’t know what I will be able to do with my life now that I’ve finished reading it.

I mean just look at this page 🤯

[glorifiedspacefiller]

*unimpressed in Tolmekian*

[elizadraws]

Dune and Nausicaä headpieces I enjoyed painting.

There are prints available ↓

Art Prints | Tip | Instagram

[rainydayzxd]

vintage stuff I found in Paris (based on my obsessions so I guess it’s vintage)

[shpjarkley]

Watching Furiosa the day after deep diving into Nausicaä's Tumblr fandom has given me a lot of thoughts about the two of them as protagonists. Both are blue-clad girls born in a land sheltered from postapocalyptic dangers, raised by a strong and fair community that is nurturing yet knows how to defend themselves.

But the two heroines take such different trajectories: Nausicaä is able to stay in her community until the very beginning of adulthood, learning from her community, environment, and teachers. In the first chapter of the manga she is already a character well-equipped to survive her world's horrors through her physical skill and compassionate understanding of the world around her.

Furiosa is taken as a child and raised by the very people who perpetrate those horrors. Her only escape, hiding among the masses, cannot spare her from complicity. It's only when she herself is reaching the cusp of adulthood that she has a figure in her life that will tolerate any vulnerability - Jack, who mentors her in war much like Kushana mentors Nausicaä during the siege. Furiosa's natural compassion is buried under the violence that defines her world and almost ends up defining herself. She never has the opportunity to grow into the kind of heroine that Nausicaä is, which might have been her trajectory had she never been stolen from her family (perhaps such a trajectory is the next step of her journey after Fury Road?).

The last, fascinating piece to this is that both heroines are left with a choice at the end of their respective stories - totally different in nature, yet pulling on many of the same thematic threads. Nausicaä and Furiosa must both confront the fact that there are no innocents left in their world, tainted as it is by war. Yet they choose to believe that someday, an innocent humanity might exist. In fact, they stake the entire world's future on that belief. Both these women start and end in the same place, and their vastly different journeys tell us the same thing about the nature of hope in the wasteland.

[dulaman-na-farraige]

Might as well post Kushana

[wert5680]

The Real Blue Clad One

And green and red…

Anyway, this piece marks my return to pixel art after a very long hiatus, from which only the illustrious Kurotowa could pull me out. When I first saw the Nausicaä movie I was infatuated with the aircraft, and after reading the manga I just had to draw the bestest lad standing in front of one.