4.25 The movie is similar to the manga for the first volume. There is much more detail on the other kingdoms that aren’t in the movie that definitely adds to the lore. The art is fantastic and it was an enjoyable read from one of my favorite Ghibli movies.

Apart from my inherent bias over loving the anime, the graphic novel was predictably gorgeous. The story didn't read as repetitive, and instead bulked out the anime story line. Action, adventure, psychic insects, and environmental advocacy-what more would you want in a book?

Miyazaki never ceases to impress me. I tried to read this on my ereader, but because of the beautiful style and massive amount of details in the drawings I stopped and bought the Manga in A4-size (printed with brown ink, btw -- which is AWESOME) to enjoy it as much as possible.

In the comic store they told me I was lucky to find it because they stopped printing this manga, and I really don't understand why. It's, like I already said, beautifully made but the story is also amazing. It was made in 1982 and the manga criticises pollution -- which is quite a time before this got a political issue worldwide. It's about a world where people polluted so much there are toxic fumes everywhere and the forrest and insects are "taking over". The young Nausicaä discovers that the forrest is doing this to clean the earth. Meanwhile there's a war going on between the small clans of humans because of a special object they want to have.

I hope I get rich very quickly so I can buy the rest of the volumes at once, since they're VERY rare and I'm afraid they'll be sold out soon. Especially since Ghibli films and Miyazaki's work got very popular since he announced his retirement (he did denounce it, right?).

Beautifully drawn by Miyazaki, the added details make this much more interesting compared to the movie.