 | NAUSICAA Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind (kaze no tani no Nausicaa) A film by Hayao Miyazaki (1984) In just about every poll done about Japanese animation, Nausicaa rates either the first or in the top five animes of all time. Miyazaki began the story in 1982 as a manga (comics) serial in the Japanese magazine Animage. The story proved so popular that he was approached about making a movie version of it. The movie follows (with a some variations) the story of the first two volumes of the manga. Miyazaki continued the story in the manga after the film was released and finally finished it in 1994. | |
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TOY STORY Buzz: Crystallic Fusion When you're busting your tail at ten times the speed of light, fossil fuels just don't cut it. Lucky for the universe, all Space Rangers have access to the limitless powers of crystallic fusion. How else could I lock into hyper-drive, engage in intergalactic warfare and interact with aboriginal life forms without so much as breaking a sweat? Wait. I already know what you're going to say next. As a gesture of peace, why not share the formula for crystallic fusion with your indigenous leaders? Sorry, but no way! Star Command would bust me back to cadet for a security breach of that magnitude. Besides, from what I've seen of your primitive computers, they lack sufficient memory to download the equations. |