Comments on: Review: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/ Bonus comics, movie reviews, and random rants Mon, 13 May 2013 10:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lori Dunn http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-509 Lori Dunn Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:59:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-509 I’m very proud to say that when I was in university, collecting comics (both Akira and Nausicaa, plus a couple of others — I referred to it as my $20/week habit), Akira came out in the theatres…and I took my young cousin to see it. I think he was 12. To this day, I’m still his favourite cousin, ’cause of that experience.

]]> By: Sarah Gilbert http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-501 Sarah Gilbert Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:33:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-501 Oh, man. I was introduced to Miyazaki at a young age when a friend with rather artsy parents sat me down and made me watch My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service in one sitting. Later, when I was nine, I begged my parents to take my younger sister and I to see Spirited Away in theaters. I left the cinema with my eyes wide and my heart fluttering in my chest cavity. My sister was scared shitless.

When my hungry friends and I were perusing the shelves of Costco years later, I came upon a box set of single-disc DVDs… including Porco Rosso, Nausicaa, and The Cat Returns.

Nausicaa terrified me. I crept into bed after watching it, mind full of underground forests and giant insects and an all consuming sand and fire. I couldn’t watch it again for a long time.

Recently, with the aid of years of experience and a little bit of marijuana, I sat down and watched Nausicaa again.

To be honest, I don’t think I can truly describe the experience with words. It was unlike any other movie experience I’ve ever had.

]]> By: Bad Cat! http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-224 Bad Cat! Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:42:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-224 I had the exact same experience! I remember spending a bored afternoon in front of HBO, when this Nausicaa (or rather, Warriors of the Wind) came on. It was so completely different than every other cartoon I had seen at that point. I can still vividly recall watching it on our cruddy ’80′s tv, my grandmother cooking dinner while I went on about how COOOL the gliders were!
As an adult, I was trying to think back to that movie, but was only remembering a few random scenes. How do you figure out the title of a movie if all you have is “glider, girl, face-masks, and golden tentacles” (or rather, how to you find Nausicaa, and *not* hentai!).
A few years ago, I was in the beginnings of a relationship with my current boyfriend. I had just gotten out of a bad marriage and was freaking out about the idea of jumping back into the romance game again. He had to work on some house project and suggested I watch some of his DVDs. I looked through the stack trying to find something interesting, and found Nausicaa – I recognized it immediately!
Now I’m not saying that “Nausicaa saved my relationship” or anything that cheesy, but it was definitely one of the first signs that I had found my soul-mate. :)

]]> By: Meghan http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-218 Meghan Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:00:54 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-218 I had the exact same experience! I remember spending a bored afternoon in front of HBO, when this Nausicaa (or rather, Warriors of the Wind) came on. It was so completely different than every other cartoon I had seen at that point. I can still vividly recall watching it on our cruddy ’80′s tv, my grandmother cooking dinner while I went on about how COOOL the gliders were!
As an adult, I was trying to think back to that movie, but was only remembering a few random scenes. How do you figure out the title of a movie if all you have is “glider, girl, face-masks, and golden tentacles” (or rather, how to you find Nausicaa, and *not* hentai!).
A few years ago, I was in the beginnings of a relationship with my current boyfriend. I had just gotten out of a bad marriage and was freaking out about the idea of jumping back into the romance game again. He had to work on some house project and suggested I watch some of his DVDs. I looked through the stack trying to find something interesting, and found Nausicaa – I recognized it immediately!
Now I’m not saying that “Nausicaa saved my relationship” or anything that cheesy, but it was definitely one of the first signs that I had found my soul-mate. :)

]]> By: Tarpo http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-203 Tarpo Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:37:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-203 Well we know that NOW

]]> By: Jeremy Strang http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-165 Jeremy Strang Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-165 Few people are David Willis.

]]> By: Gordon McAlpin http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-159 Gordon McAlpin Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-159 Her pants are definitely a shade or two lighter than her skin!

]]> By: Gordon McAlpin http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-160 Gordon McAlpin Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:28:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-160 Clearly, I’m not David Willis. :)

Battle of the Planets (a.k.a. Gatchaman) then?

]]> By: Jeremy Levett http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-158 Jeremy Levett Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:48:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-158 I read the manga first, and thought the film was a real letdown – so much was cut out (also, the manga was only half finished when he made the film.) Both are essential viewing, though.

]]> By: Tarpo http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-149 Tarpo Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:05:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-149 You can admit you thought she wasn’t wearing pants as a kid right?

]]> By: Jeremy Strang http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-147 Jeremy Strang Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:02:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-147 Transformers wasn’t Japanese. The cartoon was American produced. The toyline was created by Hasbro for American markets, and sourced from a number of unrelated Japanese toylines. It wasn’t until Hasbro was successful that Transformers as we know it here was imported back to Japan. It wasn’t until after the American cartoon ended that Japan started producing their own episodes.

Ugh, I feel like an encyclopedia.

]]> By: Trevor Okazaki http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2010/08/31/review-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/#comment-148 Trevor Okazaki Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:01:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=300#comment-148 Nausicaa is one of the best films put out by the studio. Along with Laputa and Porco Rosso it rounds out my top 3. If you can get ahold of the Japanese region 2 DVD release and a region free player the bonus disk has a great feature. It plays the movie as normal without subtitles but you can use the alternate angle option to switch between the storyboards and the movie to see how it progressed.

“Whisper of the Heart” is fun if only for Japanese schoolgirls singing John Denver’s “Country Road” in engrish.

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