CHAPTER :
The Valley of the Wind
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shane anciso   —   8 years ago

It all started back in cotton farm days, living with my grandparents, when I my friend had leant me some videos over the weekend to watch. Little did I know it would be my first true taste of epic level anime and Hayao Miyazaki...

One of those videos was a uncut, dubbed Nausicaa and the Valley if the Wind. Nothing could prepare me.

Even for its time the animation was flawless, the soundtrack breathtaking, the characters demanded your attention, despite even brief confusing moments of narration in the middle leading to a heart stoping dramatic battle where the fate of mankind amongst a planet earth filled with giant intelligent insects and toxic atmosphere hanged in the balance.

Was one of the first movies that somehow made me cry at the end too with a mind shattering ending so awesome that to this day still stays deep within my mind.

This was the mark thereafter that I held each Miyazaki film to thereafter, being rarely dissappointed 10yrs later.
What stays with me thereafter that became my all time classics up there with this film was the amazingly accurate, with what I thought were phenomenal subbed English voiced Spirited Away & Howls Moving Castle, which I am glad to say I was able to take my mom, and my grandma to see before my grandma Lupe passed away, and seeing afterwards the glow of how they loved the whole experience!

What also stays with me is how you literally feel like you have been sucked into these films and come out feeling like you were there with the characters for days on end, glued in the whole time (which is why I believe the Cartoon Network commercial break versions are an injustive to the pacing effect of these films FYI!)

Anyway, I met a booth years later here in Austin during SXSW promoting this website, which I am glad to say I finally found the time to visit tonight and leave what I will only hope will be one of yet many letters that will inspire and motivate Miyasaki to assemble the resources, funding, and talent to produce yet one more masterpiece in mu lifetime, following what I have felt a mediocre way for such a movie studio to end it's era of superb story telling on...

  • - just now