Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (manga)
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | |
North American cover of the second volume of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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風の谷のナウシカ (Kaze no Tani no Naushika) |
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| Genre | Apocalyptic/Post-apocalyptic, Epic, Science fantasy |
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| Written by | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Published by | Tokuma Shoten |
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| Magazine | Animage |
| Original run | February 1982 – March 1994 |
| Volumes | 7 |
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Japanese: 風の谷のナウシカ Hepburn: Kaze no Tani no Naushika?, IPA: /nɑːuːskə/) is a manga by Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki that ran from 1982 to 1994. It tells the story of Nausicaä, a princess of a small kingdom on a post-apocalyptic Earth with a bioengineered ecological system, who becomes involved in a war between kingdoms while an environmental disaster threatens humankind.
Prior to creating Nausicaä, Miyazaki had worked as an animator for Toei Animation and Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS), the latter for whom he had directed his feature film debut, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979). After working on an aborted adaptation of Richard Corben's Rowlf for TMS and the publishing firm Tokuma Shoten, he agreed to create a manga series for Tokuma's monthly magazine Animage, initially on the condition that it would not be adapted into a film. Nausicaä was influenced by the Japanese folk tale The Princess who Loved Insects, a similarly-named character from Homer's Odyssey, the Minamata Bay mercury pollution, and various works of science fiction and fantasy by Western writers, among other sources. The manga was serialized intermittently in Animage from 1982 to 1994 and the individual chapters were collected and published by Tokuma Shoten in seven tankōbon volumes. It was serialized with an English translation in North America by Viz Media from 1988 to 1996 as a series of 27 comic book issues and has been published in collected form multiple times.
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