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4.49 AVERAGE
4.49 AVERAGE
This story as a whole is so beautiful and amazing. I love the movie and some part of me wished that the love interest remained the same as the movie. This is a story that I just want to reread over and over.
I already loved the Nausicaä movie. It is a wonderful ghibli movie about environmentalism. It has beautiful animation and feels ever relevant in a world of demagogues and warmongering amid eminent environmental collapse.
But the Manga is on a whole other level.
The close of the series makes it something truly revolutionary. The Manga grapples not just with environmentalism, but how one lives in an apocalypse, which also feels relevant. The series ultimately ends with a message to live. Do not rely on plans or have a particular end in mind. Live and build in a way that benefits the people living there. It reveals in its own way the nihilism of dogmatic hope, of underground bunkers and Martian colonies. Not only would they perpetuate systems of power and exploitation in most cases, but they do not allow humans to live. The people living through that apocalypse are treated as a stepping stone instead of the beginning of a new way of life. Nausicaa is about becoming the light in the darkness not the light that "banishes" the darkness.
Nausicaa is also a fantastic character. I think this is a case of a character who does not change but changes the world around her. She does grapple with nihilism in a real way in volume 5, and that is where she begins her path to living.
I am so glad I read this manga. I think it is up there with Berserk.
But the Manga is on a whole other level.
The close of the series makes it something truly revolutionary. The Manga grapples not just with environmentalism, but how one lives in an apocalypse, which also feels relevant. The series ultimately ends with a message to live. Do not rely on plans or have a particular end in mind. Live and build in a way that benefits the people living there. It reveals in its own way the nihilism of dogmatic hope, of underground bunkers and Martian colonies. Not only would they perpetuate systems of power and exploitation in most cases, but they do not allow humans to live. The people living through that apocalypse are treated as a stepping stone instead of the beginning of a new way of life. Nausicaa is about becoming the light in the darkness not the light that "banishes" the darkness.
Nausicaa is also a fantastic character. I think this is a case of a character who does not change but changes the world around her. She does grapple with nihilism in a real way in volume 5, and that is where she begins her path to living.
I am so glad I read this manga. I think it is up there with Berserk.
Whew! This was a wild ending of a terrific series. It kinda felt like the last season of a show that was trying very hard to wrap everything up in an interesting way but gets caught up on itself, Parks and Rec seems relevant. The last storylines were all over the place and motivations of characters were lost. That all said, the drawing was beautiful and the dialogue remained sharp--Miyazaki knows how to tell a nuanced story!
A good ending to this series, which is refreshing considering how boring the rest of it was. I really enjoyed it's originality. I worry I miss out on a lot of stuff that someone familiar with Japanese culture would pick up on, but I still appreciate the story.
I often feel I was a bit spoiled for manga. My first encounters were this, Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, Akira and Lone Wolf And Cub. These blew most comics of any type and from any region completely out of the water, but with manga in particular I always ended up comparing them unfavourably with these three, and they usually came up short, though admittedly lots of otherwise great manga turned... skeevy, let us us say, which I found off-putting. I shall have to see what I can find via the library and maybe remedy that.
The final volume of Nausicaa, and I finally run completely out of bits that I sort of vaguely remember reading before. Nausicaa is in charge of a god-warrior with a mother-fixation. Everyone's racing towards the crypt at Shiwa where the knowledge that lead to the recent daikasho came from. It must be sealed, but there are some final truths about the nature and origin of the Sea of Corruption that means such an act could ensure species extinction for humanity. Nausicaa may have more in common with the emperors and the vipers, Kushana's brothers, than she realises. The rather huge problem of human suffering and the nature of death hangs over this crowded, fast-paced climactic volume. Nausicaa is becoming all to well aware of the problematic nature of her own role as messiah, as saviour and destroyer.
In the end, the upshot is that humanity continues to move towards futures always made uncertain and dangerous by our own actions. We are often the authors of our own, or other's suffering, but life survives and we try to carry on. And really, it's hard to dispute those truths at this time.
The final volume of Nausicaa, and I finally run completely out of bits that I sort of vaguely remember reading before. Nausicaa is in charge of a god-warrior with a mother-fixation. Everyone's racing towards the crypt at Shiwa where the knowledge that lead to the recent daikasho came from. It must be sealed, but there are some final truths about the nature and origin of the Sea of Corruption that means such an act could ensure species extinction for humanity. Nausicaa may have more in common with the emperors and the vipers, Kushana's brothers, than she realises. The rather huge problem of human suffering and the nature of death hangs over this crowded, fast-paced climactic volume. Nausicaa is becoming all to well aware of the problematic nature of her own role as messiah, as saviour and destroyer.
In the end, the upshot is that humanity continues to move towards futures always made uncertain and dangerous by our own actions. We are often the authors of our own, or other's suffering, but life survives and we try to carry on. And really, it's hard to dispute those truths at this time.
Nausicaä and the God Warrior that she accidentally awoke must go on a quest to seal the Crypt that preserves the technologies that kings and emperors have used over the years for evil, but it seems that even now, her way isn't easy.
And so Nausicaä's story finally comes to a close, with a message that is very Miyazaki-ian in nature, and somewhat reminiscent of Laputa. The warning in the tale is reminding us where arrogance can lead and to avoid thinking that we have all the answers and can 'fix' the world around us. The plot moves quickly and Nausicaä never stops being a sympathetic character you can't help warming to, and you feel for her when those around her are in pain.
It's a well-told (and well-drawn) story with a satisfying conclusion. And the series is inexpensive enough to pick up reasonably quickly and is probably worth buying since I think it certainly has re-read potential.
And so Nausicaä's story finally comes to a close, with a message that is very Miyazaki-ian in nature, and somewhat reminiscent of Laputa. The warning in the tale is reminding us where arrogance can lead and to avoid thinking that we have all the answers and can 'fix' the world around us. The plot moves quickly and Nausicaä never stops being a sympathetic character you can't help warming to, and you feel for her when those around her are in pain.
It's a well-told (and well-drawn) story with a satisfying conclusion. And the series is inexpensive enough to pick up reasonably quickly and is probably worth buying since I think it certainly has re-read potential.