In The Christianizing of Animism in Manga and Anime, Eriko Ogihara-Schuck conducted a comparative analysis of the religious themes in the manga and the film. Ogihara-Schuck wrote that Miyazaki had started out with animistic themes, such a belief in the god of the wind, in the early chapters of the manga, had conflated the animistic and Judeo-Christian traditions in the anime adaptation, but had returned to the story by expanding on the animistic themes and by infusing it with a non-dualistic worldview when he created additional chapters of the manga, dissatisfied with the manner in which these themes had been handled for the film. Drawing on the scene in which Nausica sacrifices her own life, in order to placate the stampeding Ohmu, and is subsequently resurrected by the miraculous powers of these giant insects, Ogihara-Schuck notes that "Japanese scholars Takashi Sasaki and Masashi Shimizu consider Nausica a Christ-like savior, and American scholar Susan Napier considers her as an active female messiah figure". Ogihara-Schuck contrasts these views with Miyazaki's own belief in the omnipresence of gods and spirits and Hiroshi Aoi's argument that Nausica's self-sacrifice is grounded on an animistic recognition of such spirits. Ogihara-Schuck quotes Miyazaki's comments in which he indicated that Nausica's self-sacrifice is not as a savior of her people but is a decision driven by her desire to return the baby Ohmu and by her respect for nature, as she is "dominated by animism". Ogihara-Schuck concludes that in many of his later films, much more than in the anime version of Nausica, Miyazaki expressed his own belief in the animistic world view and is at his most direct in the manga by putting the dualistic world view and the animistic belief in tension and, through Nausica's ultimate victory, makes the animistic world view superior.[35]
A state on the periphery of what was once known as Eftal, with a population of about 500. They are ruled by King Jhil and his daughter Nausica. Their nation is made up of medieval-level agriculture and harvesting activities, and they have a reservoir that draws water thanks to a large windmill that takes air currents delivered from the ocean of salt. The strong wind from the valley helps protects the land from rotten sea spores and the toxic miasma. Despite this, the nation still suffers from the sea-borne poison that can cause stillbirth and fatigue among its people.
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The Nausicaa manga is quite an interesting piece of work for examining the Miyazaki ideology, as its large serialization span of over 10 years covered many stages of Miyazaki's own intellectual developments, including his view towards idealism, utopianism, Marxism, politics, life, people and nature.
In my humble opinion, one of the major messages of the manga is the respect of life and nature.The people before the Seven Days of Fire idealistically thought that they could set out a well-defined programme for life, and believed that everything would follow the programme. They, however, ignored the complexity and the way of life itself. It was far too arrogant for the humans, who destroyed themselves, to be the world's ultimate programmer. Ohmu and the Sea of Decay (Fukai) was developed as "tools" for the sake of cleaning the world, but these "tools" acted even more nobly than the majority of the humans. Life and nature should never be underestimated, while humans should never overestimate their limits.
Okay enough blabbing . I would like to know what your own views towards the ending is . After all Nausicaa seemingly, followed the route of her predecessors, and brought humans back to unachievable idealism and practical sufferings. The path of Nausicaa is strikingly similar to the one of the first Dorok Emperor.
And yea there are also some questions in my mind:
At the end, King Vu said that Kushana would be the legitimate heir of his throne, then the King died. However Kushana didn't accept the throne, and said that there was already a new king. Who was the new king?
Nausicaa said that she loved the people of the Valley of the Wind as much as the Ohmu, but in the manga it seemed that she cared the latter much more. She always thought about the Ohmu and was even willing to die with them. However she seemed not to care much about the valley people who missed her very much. Even at the end when everything was settled down, she didn't return to the valley. Instead she lived with the Doroks/Forest people. What's your view on this?
I've just been puzzling the very same questions!
I've gone through the manga trying to find that elusive future king of Torumekia! Perhaps it's Chikuku? After all, Kushana was willing to form a joint Dorok-Torumekian kingdom, and Chikuku gave the name of an old Dorok king whilst addressing the crowds in book 6 I think...not sure what that was about either! Hmmm, maybe it's Nausicaa herself? Kushana seems very attached, almost in awe of Nausicaa towards the end.
Well, in truth I just don't know.
As for the people of the Valley, remember the coming of the new windrider? Tepa was her name I think. My view is that Nausicaa is a universal leader, the Doroks, wormhandlers and torumekians-in fact practically everybody becomes intertwined with Nausicaa in some way. She had to leave her people behind in order to do that, and maybe that's why Tepa steps in to take her place back home, Nausicaa's role has been moved on to something greater. It's not that she didn't care about the valley people.
In short, I'm rambling. I think I'm taking this Nausicaa thing way to seriously
Also, what do people think about the artwork in the manga? I used to think it was absolutley awsome, but after reading Akira I'm not so sure...though make no mistake, I still love it!
Hayao Miyazaki's Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, based on his own manga, was released in 1984 and has been a cult classic ever since. In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Decay, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and poisonous spores. Beyond the sea lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens and home to Nausica, who risks everything to save her people and bring peace and health to the valley.. 006ab0faaa
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