Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Field Set compiles all seven volumes of Miyazaki’s superbly written and illustrated manga into two premium hardcover books. Every outsized Deluxe Version has watercolor paintings by Miyazaki on the quilt and endpapers. The books will be saved and displayed within the slipcase proven above, which additionally has authentic paintings by the creator created whereas writing the sequence. Together with the books, you may discover a foldout, watercolor poster of Nausicaa, the princess of the Valley of the Wind.
Nausicaa is best-known because the 1994 Studio Ghibli animated characteristic movie, however the story informed within the anime first appeared in Japanese in written type in 1982. And by the point the movie launched, the manga was nonetheless in its early days. In consequence, the movie is essentially a condensed model of Quantity 1 with some plot factors and themes from Quantity 2.
The manga did not attain its remaining conclusion till 1994, a full decade after the movie debuted. So in case your solely expertise with Nausicaa is the movie, you’ve gotten roughly 1,000 pages of story to expertise nonetheless. Collectively, the two-volume set is 1,104 pages. Viz Media began printing the English translation for the primary time again in 1990, and the complete story has been obtainable in English for almost 30 years.
The sequence can also be obtainable in commerce paperback, however you’d spend extra on these than you’d on the field set–even for those who paid the complete $80 MSRP for the gathering.
Nausicaa Trade Paperbacks — ~$90 for Vol. 1-7