{"id":452,"date":"2009-08-25T07:06:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2009-08-25T07:06:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T12:06:38","slug":"sci-fi-sunday-part-one-nausica-of-the-valley-of-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/25\/sci-fi-sunday-part-one-nausica-of-the-valley-of-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi Sunday Part One: Nausica&auml; of the Valley of the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday, Glade and I got up at around noon, ordered a pizza with green chilis and feta (sounds weird but it was delicious) and watched <i>Nausica&auml; and the Valley of the Wind<\/i>, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which was a birthday present from Glade. I&#8217;ve been trying to get into anime lately and the movie seemed like a good entry point, since I voraciously read all seven volumes of the manga, which was written and drawn by Miyazaki in between Studio Ghibli films, when I came across it back in 2004.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2009-08-25_image1.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I enjoyed the movie, even though I have the redubbed version from 2005 that features voice acting by Patrick Stewart, Uma Thurman, and Shia LeBeouf, which was a little distracting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2009-08-25_image2.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The movie only covers about the first quarter of the manga. The God Warrior is only active for a few minutes in the anime but has a prominent role in the manga.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2009-08-25_image3.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite thing about the manga, tho, is how Miyazaki blends the influence of Moebius into his style. I would love to see an anime version of Dune done by Studio Ghibli circa the mid eighties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday, Glade and I got up at around noon, ordered a pizza with green chilis and feta (sounds weird but it was delicious) and watched Nausica&auml; and the Valley of the Wind, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which was a birthday present from Glade. I&#8217;ve been trying to get into anime lately and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-reviews","tag-hayao-miyazaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}