
The combatants disrupt the relative peace of the Valley and start shoving their weight around. The Valley of Wind suddenly finds itself in the middle of a war between two warring nations, Torumekia and Pejitei. She’s the archetype of the Miyazaki heroine: strong-willed, confident, and full of spirit. The heroine, Nausicaa, is a chieftain’s daughter, lives in a small nation in a protected valley, and shares an empathic bond with the insects of her world she firmly believes that humans and insects can peacefully coexist, despite the ever-present threat of the growing forests. "Based on a 12th Century Japanese folk tale (“The Princess Who Loved Insects”), Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind is set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans struggle to live amongst poisonous fungus forests, mutant insects, and herds of giant blue-eyed slugs called Ohmu.


2.1 Nausicaä & Dune - Japanese Animation News & Review - July 1991.
