Bonfireside Chat 175: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Added 2021-02-21 19:57:14 +0000 UTCIf you step foot in Ash Lake, you'll be struck by the improbability of a sea of trees rising infinitely to a sky you cannot see. And if you've seen Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, you'll think "this looks familiar".
It's impossible to deny that Hayao Miyazaki's work influenced Dark Souls, which is why we decided to cover it on this show. What we found was that the influences are relatively few and shallow... BUT, we also discovered that this pre-Ghibli classic has influenced an untold number of things we've consumed over the past three decades. While the plot and pacing left us wanting, the imagery, atmosphere, and sheer cultural importance of this work make it something we'd recommend checking out. Listen in to hear why.
Comments
Not just 16 and 32 bit games, Crystalis had a poison swamp level that should have been legally actionable.
Richard Van Deusen
2025-01-25 03:38:35 +0000 UTCThere was no good reason to call this a "children's movie", and I can't imagine why someone would find it boring...
Tasorius
2023-12-10 15:14:23 +0000 UTCIts a crime how much worse the Movie is versus the manga. Almost all your complaints regarding characterization and the weird messiah-ness are addressed. Also its much better connected to Dark Souls in that its about the legacy of a failed/failing society trying to cling to power and hold modern humans hostage towards a defunct and terrible system. The manga also complicates the environmental message tremendously by pointing out the inevitable death caused by deindustrialization and how there are good and inherently evil ways to move away from industrial-capitalist society.
Joe Spiro
2021-02-21 23:44:01 +0000 UTCThe manga has so much more breadth, the movie feels incomplete by comparison.
Cody F
2021-02-21 21:56:36 +0000 UTC
