![]() ![]() ![]() Miyazaki employs a fluid and organic form of storytelling in many of his works. An exercise in world-building on par with Tolkien’s Middle Earth and Herbert’s Dune, this dense epic also represents one man’s intensely personal struggle with a story filled with complex ideas rooted in ethics, politics, and philosophy. I consider the manga (Japanese comic) version of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind to be Hayao Miyazaki’s magnum opus, spanning over a thousand pages and taking the renowned animator twelve painstaking years to complete. Thus begins the greatest piece of ecological fiction ever created. – Introduction, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Industrial civilization was never rebuilt as mankind lived on through the long twilight years…” The complex and sophisticated technological superstructure was lost almost all the surface of the earth was transformed into a sterile wasteland. ![]() The cities burned, welling up as clouds of poison in the war remembered as the seven days of fire. Plundering the soil of its riches, fouling the air, and remolding life-forms at will, this gargantuan industrial society had already peaked a thousand years after its foundation: Ahead lay abrupt and violent decline. “In a few short centuries, industrial civilization had spread from the western fringes of Eurasia to sprawl across the face of the planet. ![]()
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