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Is it possible to find a Nausicaä-like girl in a live-action movie? It’s difficult for me to find heroines influenced by Nausicaä outside of Japanese animation. It’s also hard to find heroines like her before Nausicaä. Of course, it’s possible to find prototypes of Nausicaä in myths and historical facts. Hayao Miyazaki reportedly named Nausicaä …

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The tale of Nausicaä (discussed hereafter considering also the comic version) begins with the ‘Sea of Decay’, a forest filled with miasma, a poisonous gas. Humans must wear gas masks here or else their lungs rot and they die. Even outside the Sea of Decay, if they come into contact with drifting miasma poison, their …

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