Posted by Jiji on 06.25.2005, 04:24 AM: Some questions and thoughts on the Nausicaa manga 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.
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Posted by Aliceface on 06.25.2005, 12:08 PM: I've just been puzzling the very same questions!
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Posted by Jiji on 06.25.2005, 03:54 PM: Hi Aliceface! Glad to meet you and welcome to the forums!
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Posted by Aliceface on 06.26.2005, 09:12 AM: I agree, Akira is WAY too expensive. Out here in the UK you have to pay extra for the American imports thats why I only have volume 1!
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Posted by Jiji on 06.26.2005, 09:35 PM: Oh I live in Hong Kong. Probably it costs even more to import Akira to here than to buy it in the UK. Eww... sheer luck...
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Posted by Aliceface on 06.27.2005, 05:00 AM: Hmmm, yes. I really really like the artwork, make no mistake, but occasionally I feel frustrated when Miyazaki hasn't quite drawn a face right so it looks a bit strange.
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Posted by Jiji on 06.27.2005, 02:29 PM: Umm... the inconsistencies do not sound very obvious to me, but I agree that they do exist (just like in some Miyazaki movies ). Well perhaps I am not that a keen observer, or I get far too absorbed into the story.
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Posted by Aliceface on 06.27.2005, 03:51 PM: I'm not sure about the end actually. Half of me thinks that it's an incredibly brave and noble thing for Nausicaa to have done, to destroy the future human race who were to have lived in harmony with earth in order to save her own race. I also think it was true that it was pure arrogance for the creators of the crypt to re-write the earth, it was them that destroyed it in the first place. What right did they have to modify it just so they could live?
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Posted by Jiji on 06.28.2005, 09:44 AM: In my opinion what Nausicaa had in her mind was that the human race would eventually evolved to adopt to the pure environment. As an ecologist, she should have a good idea on how long it would take for the purification to complete, and how capable humans were on adapting to changes of the environment. She probably had enough confidence that humans would gradually manage to evolve or develop new technologies that could sustain their survival. After all, it is assumed that the purification process would take thousands of years to complete. By the end of process, humans should either have developed well enough to survive . (or have already extincted due to various reasons, like wars, diseases, etc )
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Posted by Aliceface on 06.29.2005, 06:05 AM: I think that I would have been tempted to leave the crypt and except the new peaceful race of humans, if I were Nausicaa. I would probably have been thoroughly fed up with mankind by now after all that war etc.
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Posted by Jiji on 06.30.2005, 01:56 AM: Eww... sorry for the long reply... (^_^;; )
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Posted by Aliceface on 07.01.2005, 05:39 AM: I see what you mean about the cloak and the loss of the ohmu suit, although at the end she comes out of the crypt wearing an the suit again, only it's been dyed even more blue by the crypt's blood. And I also remember the part when she refuses the sword offered to her, perhaps she realises her hands have already shed too much blood. I don't think there's any particular symbolism in the donning of the cloak except perhaps to show that Nausicaa has grown and changed. She's no longer the girl she was in book one. I also think that she seems much more subdued and, well bitter is too strong a word, but sad. She's had to withstand so much, such as Teto's death and the demise of the Ohmu. I can' help feeling that Nausicaa will never be the same carefree girl anymore.
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Posted by Jiji on 07.02.2005, 03:28 AM: I am not sure if Suliman is made to be an archetype of a "goddess." A pity that there is not much in-depth portrayal of her background and personality. She just seems to be another Miyazaki villain to me (with a moody mind that can start and end a war with almost no reason at all.)
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Posted by Aliceface on 07.04.2005, 12:54 PM: I don't think there's any special meaning about the more blue suit at the end except maybe that Nausicaa's finished her role as the 'blue clad one' I also much prefer the image at the end of nausicaa dancing on the golden ground, I can imagine all the golden shadows flickering around the dancers. It seems much more alive than the early bit where Nausicaa walks on the Ohmu feelers (it's lucky she didn't have ticklish feet!), much more joyful. It's a really satisfying bit of the ending, despite the questions that remain I think that bit is my favourite part. That and the journey Nausicaa takes with Selm to the end of the sea of corruption. Yay! It's making me feel all happy just thinking about it
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Posted by nanashi on 07.04.2005, 02:36 PM: Domu is the masterpiece. i think that it is the marvelous work of Otomo, for me.
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Posted by Aliceface on 07.05.2005, 04:45 AM: I'm curious now Nanashi What's Domu about then? IS it better than AKira? Oh, can you get it in England though? |
Posted by Jiji on 07.05.2005, 05:50 AM: To me, one of the most memorabe part was Nausicaa's confession to Selm (through telepathy) after telling the worm handlers the "truth" of the toxic forest. Nausicaa has never failed to stun me with these words, which are embodied with an immense amount of strength and hope, despite of the tough environment and fate lying ahead. These words also remind me of the theme of Mononoke Hime: the will to live (生きろ)
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Posted by Aliceface on 07.15.2005, 07:34 AM: Ah yes, Nausicaa's confession to Selm is wonderful. I'd forgotten about that! It's a very powerful bit- but then Nausicaa is full of very powerful bits! It's enough to make you want to explode. Tha's how I felt anyway when I'd finished reading it for the first time. SO that skeleton was nihilism was it? that makes sense. I got a bit confused when the skeleton was referring to itslef as the holy one (which holy one?! I thought. The Dorok holy one or the monk in the temple with Chikuku?) But now it's all clear. When Nausicaa found out through Selm that the dark place full of bones was inside her I realised that the skeleton was some kind of feeling inside NAuscaa, not the holy one....I think
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