Naausica rocks!!!
Several people have asked about this, so here goes. These are fan drawings of the character Nausicaä, from Hayao Miyazaki's animation epic Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (also a multivolume manga). The name Nausicaä isn't very catchy--Miyazaki took it from a minor character in Homer's Odyssey. The second drawing from the top on the left is mine (a larger version was posted here a few weeks back). The rest are from Google Images. The character is much known and loved throughout the world; she has a low profile in the States but the film is being re-released by Disney to coincide with the next Miyazaki widescreen film. The Nausicaä DVD was supposed to be released Aug. 31, but according to this Miyazaki fan site, Disney has delayed it AGAIN. I still think it has something to do with Miyazaki's unfortunate decision to give her flesh-colored leggings, which makes it look like she has nothing on under her kilt, so to speak. I'm sure that's driving the puritans at Walt's company insane.
Just saw this last night (though distracted by working on imovie at the same time). Great dopey monster beasts and strange, compromised human relationships to toxified nature and chemically modified environments. Definitely a predecessor to Princess Mononoke. Didn't notice the lack-of-panties problem.
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- tom moody 7-22-2004 9:51 pm
Naausica rocks!!!
- Abraham Kalashnikov 7-23-2004 8:48 am
Several people have asked about this, so here goes. These are fan drawings of the character Nausicaä, from Hayao Miyazaki's animation epic Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (also a multivolume manga). The name Nausicaä isn't very catchy--Miyazaki took it from a minor character in Homer's Odyssey. The second drawing from the top on the left is mine (a larger version was posted here a few weeks back). The rest are from Google Images. The character is much known and loved throughout the world; she has a low profile in the States but the film is being re-released by Disney to coincide with the next Miyazaki widescreen film. The Nausicaä DVD was supposed to be released Aug. 31, but according to this Miyazaki fan site, Disney has delayed it AGAIN. I still think it has something to do with Miyazaki's unfortunate decision to give her flesh-colored leggings, which makes it look like she has nothing on under her kilt, so to speak. I'm sure that's driving the puritans at Walt's company insane.
- tom moody 7-28-2004 9:43 pm
Just saw this last night (though distracted by working on imovie at the same time). Great dopey monster beasts and strange, compromised human relationships to toxified nature and chemically modified environments. Definitely a predecessor to Princess Mononoke. Didn't notice the lack-of-panties problem.
- sally mckay 7-28-2004 10:28 pm