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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
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here’s my (non-exhaustive) woman chart. rate my taste in fictional women
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That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science
Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?
#nitashinori#I'm not POSITIVE#it was PROBABLY#Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind#which my parents had like a bootleg VHS of for some reason#I dont even know where they GOT it honestly. Im not even sure if it MAKES SENSE CHRONOLOGICALLY that they had it#did a timetraveler reverseburgle a VHS of Nausicaa into my childhood home? It's Possible! My parents ARENT EVEN ANIME FANS#I watched that before I even knew 'anime' was a THING so that's Most Likely It#BUT! I also watched#Tenchi Muyo#really really early so it might have been that instead#Or it could have been#Guyver#The Dreaded Animes#Our Staff
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Inspired by this poll
#sauntering vaguely downwards#tumblr Polls#First Anime Obsession Poll#HMMM#Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind#I've said this before but my parents had some bootleg of this I watched the wheels off of#I have NO IDEA How Im not even sure the chronology works for it#some other super early obsessions:#Vampire Hunter D#Tenchi Muyo!#for one look at Hakubi Ryoko I'd sit through a hundred hours of Tenchi's personalityless ass#for one look at Hakubi Washu I would sit through a thousand more#I caught like an OVA film of it or something on Sci Fi Channel one saturday and I was positively RABID for details about it#which obvsl I could not find#and when I DID I was disappointed as all hell cuz the series is pretty underwhelming honestly#but damn: The Character design!#OH! Iria: Zeiram the Animation#I actl caught the sentai film of this first and honestly like it better#but Zeiram's just such a well designed Creature#but anyway#Our Staff#minitagrants
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If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about
#eventually darling#Hmmmm#Cryptozoology#UFOs#Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty#Eels#Wolves#Plato#Politics#French Horn#Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind#The X Files#The Simpsons#Horror Movies#Babylon 5#Star Trek#TAGEDIT:#Greek Myth#HOW could I FORGET?!??!#Our Staff#Age 11#Tag Memes#frivolous reblogs
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One of my favorites, and I worked very hard on it. I never liked drawing standard heroine pictures of Nausicaä looking cheerful. I couldn't draw her disconnected from the story. Nausicaä looking out of the picture and smiling just seemed wrong to me. When she's alone, I always imagined her looking very unapproachable. Not because she was intimidating, but because of a quiet isolation, like she wasn't part of her surroundings at all.
– Hayao Miyazaki.
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That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science
Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?
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NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND 風の谷のナウシカ 1984, dir. Hayao Miyazaki
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This Saturday #gallerynucleus #kimchicat book signing event! I’ll have the original watercolors for inktober there as well!
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zenosanalytic replied to your post:wtf does making Studio Ghibli stronger even mean
The Ghibli film of my youth was Nausicaa the Valley of the Wind(on what I’m p sure was a bootlegged copy no less) and I kinda wonder if and how that impacted me :T
fwiw my first reaction was “lmao, of course it was”
Yeah see, like, I think about myself in context to it and I say: “Fantasy Sci-Fi. Huge, Wise, Rolly-Pollies. Lots of Guns. Giant Firemen of Death. Vast Deathforests eating Fallout to fix the Earth. Post-Apocalyptic. Female Protag who is both Deeply Compassionate and Ready to Fight for her Convictions at the drop of a hat, and isn’t presented as “Unnatural” or “Conflicted”. Ecologically Radical. Deeply, Inherently Political. Ultimately Pacifistic and Egalitarian. Amoral Charismatic Lady-Villain in Armor Driving Tanks, Getting in Sword Fights, and generally Ruining everyone’s Shit. Clear Chemistry between Lady-Hero and Lady-Villain. Anger-Hair” and I’m like. Yeah. Of course. No Brainer. But then I think: but I can’t remember ever NOT being into those things :|
But here’s the other thing: I can’t remember a time when I hadn’t seen it either! It was just always That Animated Dune with Subtitles. So maybe the first time I saw it I was really, really young, and it had a big impact, or maybe it was just the Perfect Thing for me that Miyazaki just, fortuitously, made. I simply cannot know u_u