History Trivia / NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind

* DuelingMovies: With Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/Dune1984''. Both are films set in a DesertPunk vision of the distant future, with various giant insects/worms, a blend of medieval and futuristic styles, and a MessianicArchetype protagonist. In fact, Miyazaki himself stated that the original ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' book was an inspiration for the film and manga. Many audiences in Japan have compared the two films as ''Dune'' premiered just a few months after ''Nausicaä''. ''Nausicaä'' was a massive blockbuster success in Japan. ''Dune'' still performed decently and was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff more beloved by Japanese audiences than most other territories]], but even its Japanese success was not enough to save the film from being a BoxOfficeBomb.

* The Japanese Blu-ray release had heavy amounts of noise reduction and clipping on the Japanese audio track, resulting in DigitalDestruction. Most international Blu-ray releases would use this same audio track except for the 2011 US Disney Blu-ray release, which used an unfiltered version of the Japanese audio that has more analogue noise (natural for such a film) but sounds much crisper and natural. Unfortunately, the Disney Blu-ray would soon go [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes out-of-print]] [[ChannelHop to be replaced by]] Creator/{{GKIDS}}' Blu-ray release, which would use the same filtered audio track from the Japanese release.

* BuryYourArt: The 1985 English dub, ''Warriors of the Wind'', has never been re-released since New World Media's rights to the film expired in 1995. The dub was loathed by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki for its heavy edits, leading Creator/StudioGhibli to institute their famous "no cuts" policy for later English dubs of their works. Fittingly, Creator/{{Disney}} would put out a more faithful English dub of this film in 2005.

** As the English dub was produced by Disney, this is inevitable. Fortunately, they put together a pretty solid cast for this one – standouts include Creator/PatrickStewart as Yupa, Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos as Mito, Creator/UmaThurman as Kushana, Creator/MarkHamill as the Mayor of Pejite, and they even brought in well-known traditional voice actors – Creator/TressMacNeille plays three different women (most notably Obaba), Creator/JimCummings is one of the old Valley men, Creator/JeffBennett as Gikkuri, Creator/FrankWelker plays Gol, [[CrossRegionalVoiceActing and]] Emily Bauer voices Lastelle; with Creator/JodiBenson as Lastelle's mother. All with narration duties provided by Creator/TonyJay.

** As the English dub was produced by Disney, this is inevitable. Fortunately, they put together a pretty solid cast for this one – standouts include Creator/PatrickStewart as Yupa, Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos as Mito, Creator/UmaThurman as Kushana, Creator/MarkHamill as the Mayor of Pejite, and they even brought in well-known traditional voice actors – Creator/TressMacNeille plays three different women (most notably Obaba) and Creator/JimCummings is one of the old Valley men.

* CreatorKiller: An interesting case - while Creator/{{Topcraft}} would survive another year after the film's release, including co-producing [[Creator/TatsunokoProduction Tatsunoko's]] ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'' and animating ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'', most of the staff that formed the basis of the studio would split off into both Ghibli, Creator/StudioGainax, and Creator/PacificAnimationCorporation not long after.

* CreatorKiller: An interesting case - while Creator/{{Topcraft}} would survive another year after the film's release, including co-producing [[Creator/TatsunokoProduction Tatsunoko's]] ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'' and animating ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'', most of the staff that formed the basis of the studio would split off into both Ghibli and Creator/PacificAnimationCorporation not long after.

** The film was going to be produced by Creator/{{Daiei}} (of ''Film/Rashomon'' and ''Film/Gamera'' fame) as their first anime film, but Tokuma Shoten (Daiei's then-parent company and the eventual parent company of Creator/StudioGhibli) sent the film to Creator/{{Topcraft}} instead as they thought Daiei had little experience with making animation.

* LifeImitatesArt: There really are fungi that can neutralize various forms of pollution such as nuclear fallout and plastic waste and scientists have expressed interest in the possibility of breeding and possibly genetically enhancing them to clean up the environment en masse. Given the growing awareness of how many of these pollutants people's bodies are saturated with, doing so may indeed have health consequences for the people the fungi try to "purify".

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* SelfAdaptation: Miyazaki is both the manga's author and the film's director. He actually starting writing the manga ''[[EnforcedTrope specifically]]'' so the movie could be funded.

* CreatorKiller: An interesting case - while Creator/{{Topcraft}} would survive another year after the film's release, including co-producing [[Creator/TatsunokoProduction Tatsunoko's]] ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'' and animating ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala''. Most of the staff that formed the basis of the studio would split off into both Ghibli and Creator/PacificAnimationCorporation not long after.

** After the movie was released, producer Suzuki and animator Anno proposed Miyazaki a sequel (or a spinoff, according to another version) centered on the Kushana wars, but Miyazaki rejected it, not liking the emphasis on violence. Producers still wanted to do a sequel for many time, so Miyazaki eventually conceded and entrusted the work to Anno in 2011, but the project entered DevelopmentHell and they eventually desisted. Around this time, however, Miyazaki and Anno did a short live action film, ''Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo'', featuring one of the God Warriors (whose animation had been done by Anno himself in ''Nausicaa'').

* TroubledProduction: The movie's making was a dire process. Topcraft was heavily understaffed and was forced to hire extra animators, among them a young Creator/HideakiAnno, who later revealed he had to sleep under his desk in the Topcraft offices because there was neither time nor money for a regular schedule.

** After the movie was released, producer Toshio Suzuki and animator Creator/HideakiAnno proposed Miyazaki a sequel (or a spinoff, according to another version) centered on the Kushana wars, but Miyazaki rejected it, not liking the emphasis on violence. Producers still wanted to do a sequel for many time, so Miyazaki eventually conceded and entrusted the work to Anno in 2011, but the project entered DevelopmentHell and they eventually desisted. Around this time, however, Miyazaki and Anno did a short live action film, ''Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo'', featuring one of the God Warriors (whose animation had been done by Anno himself in ''Nausicaa'').

* TroubledProduction: The movie's making was a dire process. Topcraft was heavily understaffed and was forced to hire extra animators, among them a young Creator/HideakiAnno, who later revealed he had to sleep under his desk in the Topcraft offices because there was neither time nor money.

** After the movie was released, producer Toshio Suzuki and animator Creator/HideakiAnno proposed Miyazaki a sequel centered on the Kushana wars (or a spinoff according to other versions), but Miyazaki rejected it, not liking the emphasis on violence. Producers still wanted to do a sequel for many time, so Miyazaki eventually conceded and entrusted the work to Anno in 2011, but the project entered DevelopmentHell due to schedule problems and they eventually desisted. Around this time, however, Miyazaki and Anno did a short live action film, ''Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo'', featuring one of the God Warriors (whose animation had been done by Anno himself in ''Nausicaa'').

** After the movie was released, Creator/HideakiAnno, the animator behind the Giant God Warriors, proposed Miyazaki a spinoff film centered on the creatures' story, but Miyazaki rejected the idea. This has been cited as a possible inspiration for Anno to later make ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', which also features similar biomechanical giants. Amusingly, almost three decades later, Miyazaki and Anno eventually did it and produced a short live action film, ''Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo'', featuring one of the monsters.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/NataliePortman was considered to voice Nausicaä in Disney's dub before Alison Lohman was cast.

* CreatorKiller: An interesting case - while Creator/{{Topcraft}} would survive another year after the film's release, including co-producing [[Creator/TatsunokoProduction Tatsunoko's]] ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove''. Most of the staff that formed the basis of the studio would split off into both Ghibli and Creator/PacificAnimationCorporation not long after.

* CreatorKIller: An interesting case - while Creator/{{Topcraft}} would survive another year after the film's release, including co-producing [[Creator/TatsunokoProduction Tatsunoko's]] ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove''. Most of the staff that formed the basis of the studio would split off into both Ghibli and Creator/PacificAnimationCorporation not long after.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Several characters' names are different depending upon the translation, as are some terms.
** Sea Of Corruption (manga) vs. Sea Of Decay (DVD/BD subs) vs. Toxic Jungle (English dub)
** The Princess of Pejitei: Rastel (manga) vs. Lastel (DVD subtitles) vs. Lastelle (Bluray credits)
** Torumekia (manga) vs. Tolmekia (DVD/BD)
** Pejitei (manga) vs. Pejite (DVD/BD)
** Ohmu (manga) vs. Ohm (English dub). The official subtitles are inconsistent on this one – DVD says "Ohmu", Bluray says "Ohm".
** God-Warrior (manga) vs. Giant Warrior (movie)
** Mehve (manga) vs. Möwe (German for "gull" and clearly what Miyazaki intended with メーヴ). The movie's English subtitles and dub ignore the term and just call it Nausicaä's glider.

** In a different interview (seen on Disney's U.S. Bluray), Miyazaki says he created ''Nausicaä'' at Toshio Suzuki's request at a time when he wasn't getting work – though almost immediately after, he was hired as animation director for ''Anime/SherlockHound'' – and so he intentionally made a story that could not be easily adapted to animation… and then he was asked to do exactly that.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Warriors of the Wind'' is out of print and will never be rereleased, but can be found on torrenting sites.

** The Japanese dub has Creator/SumiShimamoto, Creator/GoroNaya, and Creator/IchiroNagai in lead roles. This movie was from before Miyazaki decided he hated working with professional seiyuu and switched to using on-camera {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}s instead.