
The source of my complaint was that I had read Miyazaki’s manga by the same title. It’s an issue that I’ve mostly sewn up in a burlap sack for disposal into the nearby lake, but at the time my disappointment in the cinema realization of Nausicaä was tremendous. The problem was that I was still too much a purist, too much a fan. Or at least it did in my mind at the time.

When I finally arrived at Nausicaä, I was very excited, having saved the best for last. Weeks earlier, I was able to get ahold of a Hong Kong set of all of Miyazaki’s works up to that point and was slowly working my way through the collection. I had heard a lot of good things about it both from friends who adored the bastardized American release fifteen years earlier, Warriors of the Wind, and from friends who regularly sought out Japanese fare. I ended the story at the same point as we are now, at the starting point of an incomprehensible world.Several years back (this was maybe 2002, right before Spirited Away hit American shores) I was finally able to see Hayao Miyazaki’s film Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind. "Having ended Nausica doesn't mean that everything has ended or come to a conclusion. A modern masterpiece, the entire series is now available in this deluxe box set containing two hardcover volumes with interior color pages and a bonus poster.

Nausica of the Valley of the Wind is an epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo. Nausica of the Valley of the Wind is an epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. Hayao Miyazaki's own creation, the legendary Nausica manga is now all in one A deluxe compilation of the classic manga series written and illustrated by Academy Award(R) winner Hayao Miyazaki.
