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upghost parent
Do yourself a flava and read the Manga. The movie ends before where the first volume ends, but the story goes in a completely different and much more interesting direction.
echelon
There is no work from Miyazaki that should be more relevant to us on HN than Shuna no Tabi (シュナの旅, Shuna's Journey).

It was published during Nausicaa's run and has similar themes to Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke. It's certainly more brutal.

It reads like Cormac McCarthy's "The Road", and the themes are incredibly prescient for the world we're about to be living in [1]. It has direct relevance to everyone on HN.

https://archive.org/details/shuna-no-tabi-complete-translate...

It's a hidden gem and often overlooked.

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https://rot13.com/

wahnfrieden
Thanks for sharing this
kibwen
Worth mentioning that the manga is itself drawn by Miyazaki, and that he originally stipulated that it should never be made into a film. Fully agreed that the manga is far more beautiful and complete than the film.
KeepFlying
Don't forget how horribly the first English adaptation of the film went too.
upghost OP
Was the plot completely butchered...? Yes.

Were there gaping narrative discontinuities...? Certainly.

But that 80s voice acting in the English dub... chef's kiss. The guy who voiced Milo("Asbel" in the movie) was the voice of Leonardo from Ninja Turtles and Kaneda from original dub of Akira!! (Cam Clark)

If I watch any version, I watch Warriors of the Wind. It really is the "Hollywood version" of Nausicaa.

Yeah, the newer one is better, but it doesn't hold a candle to the manga so give me that 80s synth and big hair voice acting any day.

Also I was like 5 when I saw it so nostalgia goggles.

wk_end
It’s probably easier to list the anime characters that Cam Clark doesn’t voice!
frollogaston
Didn't even know about the old one. The newer one has 80s synth too, though.
InvisibleUp
It wasn’t that bad. It cut a few scenes but most of the movie is still there perfectly intact. It even won film festival awards. The movie mostly flopped in the US market on account it being distributed on a very low budget limited release against Rambo and The Goonies. SpaceHunterM on YouTube made a good video explaining a lot of misconceptions, if you want to check that out.
tomrod
The movie completely inspired me as a child and as an adult. I didn't relaize the story continued.
tuna74
Miyazaki was the director of the movie and probably drew a lot more than a traditional anime movie director.
Kapura
Glad to know that others agree; this is the elephant in the room that the original link doesn't mention. The manga was completed several years after the film's release, and the expanded freedom allows the story to be expanded in every direction. Many of the themes present in later Miyazaki works (stuff like redemption for certain villains) are absent from the film but have time to develop in the manga.
magic_hamster
This is especially true for Akira. While it's an incredible movie, it really doesn't end clearly and the reason is that it's simply not the end of the story. The movie ends roughly half way through the Manga which is insanely well done and should be read by everyone.
HideousKojima
Also the secret truth about the world in Nausicaa (not going to spoil it here) has been copied by several other animes and video games since, it's been very influential. Notably the anime Ergo Proxy and the video game Nier seem to take some significant inspiration from it.
omnee
Like others I want to recommend the manga. It's a masterpiece and in my opinion Miyazaki's Magnum Opus.
echelon
It's certainly his biggest world, and the themes of climate change and environmentalism are directly relevant.

I still am not sure which between Nausicaa the manga, Nausicaa the film, Princess Mononoke, or Spirited Away are his magnum opus. They are all spectacular.

I posted below about his manga, "Shuna's Journey". It's also exceedingly relevant.

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