Nausicaa box7/4/2023 The lettering choices from Walden Wong are also clear and professional with a touch of Renaissance flair that is shared with the general aesthetic. It is on the alien high fantasy side of things, but personalities come through and you connect with everyone as intimately as they do each other. The dialog feels crisp, the myriad allegiances and double crosses are clear. The translation by Dana Lewis, Toren Smith, and Rachel Thorn was handled beautifully. The drama of flashing sword showdowns are executed with Seven Samurai perfection and then criticized for their ego. One power experiments with using this environmental destruction to wipe out the other, the other strikes back with the lost technology of annihilation behind the scourging of the planet. Nature’s reset to continental tabula rasa has ended the age of man. Overgrowing these last castles are giant forests of poison spores, protected by mammoth beetles who spread the plague when drawn to their borders. Miyazaki’s ceramic age of knights and airships totter at the brink of their era’s collapse. Nausicaä rises as a folk hero, the accidental leader of an army of outcasts- others who are caught between the sides and the blight. The matriarch of a family of vipers on one side, religious zealots led by a dark wizard and his watch-the-world-burn brother on the other. Nausicaä: princess and heir, capable with a glider, contemplative regarding her toxic world, bound to honor her small kingdom’s allegiance to one side of a war.
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