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This article is from the misc anime FAQ, by nikkou with numerous contributions by others.

3.1. What's this Anime?: Mystery Anime 1

From: guy-jin Subject: identify this anime

there is an anime i want to see again, but it has been years since i saw it, and i do not remember the name.

the main charachter is a girl who flies around on a jet wing, with no cockpit, just handlebars. the movie opens with her going around a jungle. she wears a mask, because the forest pollen is dangerous(i think). she gets the eye lens of some giant insect that kinda looks like a big blue pillbug.

most of the rest of the movie is a blur, but the people live in the desert, her father dies from pollen(?) and eventually they must escape the pillbugs - thier eyes turn red and they start herding en masse. they fly over the herd in a hot air ballon, and drop a bomb on the bugs.

thanks for any help!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: vanfanel Subject: Re: identify this anime

"Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind", also known as "Warriors of the Wind" in its U.S. dubbed version, which is about 20 minutes shorter than the full cut).

--Daniel

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: guy-jin Subject: Re: identify this anime

aha! i thought the descriptions of nausicaa were familliar, but i knew the title didn't have nausicaa in it.

btw, what was in nausicaa that wasnt in warriors? what did i miss?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: S.t.A.n.L.e.E Subject: Re: identify this anime

Specifically, the ecology themes were cut or toned down. Like the cut scene where Nausicaa grows the forest plants in the castle basement, but the plants don't release deadly spores because they are fed clean water and unpolluted soil. From that, Nausicaa deducted that the plants absorb pollution (which gets into the spores) to clean the soil, so the plants actually heal the earth. Without the ecology themes, it became a mere action war film, which is emphasized in the title "Warriors of the Wind."

The dubbing was OK, especially for its time - it was helped that half the time the charas' mouths are covered with something (gas mask, beard, armor, etc.) so there's less trouble with lip-synching - but the editing and the missing 30 min were what killed it. (Incidentally, somebody mentioned that June Foray is in it, but I'm still not sure about that.)

Laters. =)

STan

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