Often mentioned in favorable comparison to the anime film Princess Mononoke and authored by one of the most loved manga authors in Japan, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind combines heart-thumping battle action with struggling for honor and a strong ecological message. Nausicaä is a passionate defender of the natural world on a...
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The war rages, and Nausicaä travels towards enemy lines with Princess Kushana’s retinue in an attempt to join up with the third army before Torumekian forces are overwhelmed by a Dorok siege. While troop movements unfold slowly on the ground, a more complex battle unfolds among the clouds. Nausicaä’s affinity for her polluted world’s...
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Somewhere deep below the Dorok Emperor’s palace a fearsome god warrior is growing tended by priests and an army of strange creatures. Above ground the Emperor’s aerial navy has unleashed a genetically modified mold to devour the Torumekian army and render their lands uninhabitable. The mold has mutated out of control, forming a giant...
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Nausicaä gains her most dangerous adopted child yet when the God Warrior is born. Flying in a corona of toxic light, this ages-old being carries Nausicaä to the holy crypts of the Dorok empire in the city of Shuwa, an ancient civilization’s hiding place for technology that once nearly destroyed the world. Separated again,...
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