THE FIRST STUDIO GHIBLI FILM: *NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND* (1984) REACTION

Here is my reaction to Studio Ghibli's first animated film, the 1984 adventure fantasy Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
First time watching Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) Reaction.
Far in the future, after an apocalyptic conflict has devastated much of the world's ecosystem, the few surviving humans live in scattered semi-hospitable environments within what has become a "toxic jungle." Young Nausicaä lives in the arid Valley of the Wind and can communicate with the massive insects that populate the dangerous jungle. Under the guidance of the pensive veteran warrior, Lord Yupa, Nausicaä works to bring peace back to the ravaged planet.
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[@alinac5512]

One of my favorite childhood movies. So good.

[@TrophyReacts]

That’s amazing!

[@alinac5512]

Nausicaa is one of the best Ghibli Protagonists, tbh. And a total badass with a functioning moral compass. Such a great role model for everyone. Plus that scene where the army first arrives in the valley and she flips back and touches the ground to look for a weapon without looking down will live rent-free in my head for so long.

[@laughingvampire7555]

she is everything Hollywood can't create anymore

[@Pip8448]

Nausicaa IS my favorite Studio Ghibli movie and I love her, but Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke is a total decisive badass and I think he wins between the two.

[@Shadow952013]

This was my first Ghibli movie, saw it in the mid 00's when my mother finally found a copy that she had spent nearly a decade searching for it. It now has a place of honor in my own collection right next to my hardcover collection of the manga

[@user-sv3lz4kt5f]

他の人も言及してるけど、 コミカルなシーンでもないのにヘラヘラ笑ってて、映像作品を馬鹿にしてる？ 何も考えずにジブリ作品のタトゥーも入れたのだろうと浅さが透けて見える。(もののけ姫のタトゥーを紹介した時、キャラクターの名前は忘れた発言してる。)

[@user-ud5dq9nr8n]

リアクター失格レベルの配信者だよね！(笑)

[@kyuokuo]

I know that your whole vibe is more giggly and jokey, I have been watching your videos long enough to know that... But I don't know about this one, it was just... odd! It felt like it didn't really match some of the energy of the movie. Some quiet scenes you were more quiet, in others you would be making jokes that wouldn't exactly land. I wonder if this is my own bias towards this movie, or if this was just my own feelings regarding more serious ghibli movies in general and how some people can take them. It was a good reaction overall, and while I like your video reactions this one just didn't stick the landing.

[@leonthelad3208]

I have NO idea who you are dude, but I love the vibes. I watch almost every reaction to this movie since it probably my favorite Ghibli film. It's just so nice to see such out there physical worldbuilding, and it's definitely inspired many of my novels.

[@TrophyReacts]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Appreciate that you were on the same vibes, hell yeaaaaah! Plan to do all the Ghibli films so will maybe see you on some of the others ✌🏼

[@lorettabes4553]

I love the audio of this movie, it's so comforting. Like the sound effects are ones they wouldn't use nowadays and it's just so satisfying

[@keisukeh1066]

なぜあなたは常に笑っているの？ なにが可笑しいの？

[@Avenger85438]

One of the charms of Ghibli film's is the attention to detail delivering a sense of belivabilty with how everything works. Even with their most fantastical designs, the way little parts of them move and shift when they're in motion permits our brains to buy into the. It's a unique sort of "functional fantasy" which the studio excels at.

[@otaku-sempai2197]

Nausicaa was actually made by Topcraft but led to the founding of Studio Ghibli. I love Joe Hisaisi's score; I have multiple soundtrack CDs for Nausicaa.

[@codename1176]

Have you heard Joes demo reel he did? Some tracks based on the factions in Myasaki’s manga of Nausicaa. The theme he made for the Dolomites actual is in the film. Made these to get the job at Ghibli.

[@hoffa57]

Too be honest it didn't seem like you liked or understood the movie at all. All I saw was you making fun of the movie. Such a shame.

[@Pip8448]

What? this is the first video I've seen of his, but he seemed to like the movie. It's not a very complicated movie to watch so he got to say a lot about the nostalgia of older anime styles.

[@nerdwisdomyo9563]

Das a bit gatekeepy come on

[@Artnotforthesakeofart]

I'm glad you are getting into Ghibli reactions! My top 3 favs are: 1) Spirited Away 2) The secret world of Arrietty 3) Whisper of the heart

[@lorettabes4553]

My top 2 are: 1. Castle in the sky 2. Spirited Away And all the other ones I like for so many different reasons that they are all on number 3 for me.

[@champ6436]

mine are : 1) whisper of the heart 2)Omoide poroporo 3)princess mononoke ( + kiki, marnie, chihiro and majority of ghibli) 4) howl's moving castle (one of my less favorite ghibli, the music in that one is maybe the best work of Jo hisaishi but the story i have some issue with).

[@nisikazeyoh]

私はシリアスな場面で笑う人が嫌いです 物語が真剣な時は、見る人も真剣であって欲しいと思います 時々、自分の真剣さを人々に見せるのを嫌って、そう言う行動を取る人がいるのは理解しますが 彼とは友達にはなれないでしょう このビデオを30分ほど見たがダメでした、さようなら

[@user-si6nr2gy9z]

笑う所あった?

[@darcijelly7643]

Great reaction! I can’t wait to for you to enjoy more Ghibli movies

[@TrophyReacts]

Excited to see more too!

[@vsGoliath96]

Oh no, Tito the fox squirrel 😢 If you know, you know.

[@joshjames582]

If you enjoy the world of Nausicaa, consider reading the manga. The movie adapts the first two chapters and changes some things around. Certain characters have very different fates in the manga, including the Giant Warrior!

[@TheMiniatureRobot]

I know people have strong feelings about the Disney dubs for these films but I truly believe they are some of the best dubs out there. Disney put an insane amount of money and care into adjusting the script to match the mouth movements of the characters in all the films. I also think that the voice casts are really well suited for most of the movies Edit: I also wanted to add that this is Miyazaki's first film that he directed as part of studio ghibli but it is also the first project of a young animator named Hideaki Anno. He would go on to create a show called Neon Genesis Evangelion which is widely regarded as one of the most influential anime of all time and the show that single handedly introduced anime to the west.

[@bigfrankfraser1391]

howls moving castle is a magnificent dub, knows some japanese fans who prefer the dub as it encapsulates the atmosphere better with the englishness of it

[@OT_Lake]

That caught me off gaurd! I never knew that! Most of the time in my opinion, I think the word and sentence choices in the Japanese versions fit better, but i like the English va's more, so it kinda evens out. ​@bigfrankfraser1391

[@harmlessspider3693]

I love this movie, but I liked the story in the manga better. The movie cuts most of the story short and simplifies what it does keep. Love the visuals and music though, nausica is best character.

[@birdback3625]

As the director said an interview,this work seems to have been broadcast overseas in　 a terrible way at first.After that,excellent mediators came in,and Ghibli films began to be screened overseas.

[@19Rena96]

If you enjoyed the movie, reading the manga is a must because everything is more fleshed out and detailled. The movie covers 1/3 of the story and they changed/left out a lot.

[@Spacecowboy1997]

best ghibli film imo

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

This is a pre-Ghibli film, but made by several of the same people who later formed Studio Ghibli. What strikes me about Ghibli films and this one in particular is how much they tell you with just pictures. After the credits have run, we meet the main character and by the time we get five minutes in, including the prelude and credits, we already can see that Nausicaa is a young woman comfortable with weapons, and she obviously has a scientific interest in botany. You can tell that she's not just collecting samples for someone else, because of the interest she shows in one sample right after sealing the phial. That's brilliant visual story-telling. And I didn't notice the first dozen or so times I watched this film... look at the last image you see before the opening credits end... then look at the first glimpse we get of Nausicaa just a few seconds later... That silly-sounding "la, la-la-la, la-la-la" chorus turns out to be one of the most significant musical pieces of the movie. The first time we hear it is when the Ohmu is "talking" to Nausicaa right after the gunship and glider land in the swamp. Then the second time we hear it, we see the memory which it's connected to, and which the Ohmu obviously saw earlier. Then the third time we hear it, the Ohmu repay like for like, and life for life. Oh, and I think that fox-squirrel's name is actually Keyto which is pronounced kay-toe.

[@0FynnFish0]

Take my comment as food for the ever-hungry algorithm. The video has only been out for 3 hours at this point but those views really need to go up. This is a freaking masterpiece!

[@TrophyReacts]

Aha, I didn’t expect the Ghibli films to do very well as I never do anime here, doing it more for myself 😅but thank you so much!

[@0FynnFish0]

@@TrophyReacts Maybe it'll open up a new audience for you over time. I'm super happy about it. I've been here for Friends, Heartstopper and Avatar, recently just stayed for Gilmore Girls. But now I've got another "series" to look forward to. ♡

[@rafaelgalindo4794]

I love when marnie was there and the wind rises

[@TrophyReacts]

Excited to see the wind rises!

[@MedusaLegend]

He is in my top 3. First is Spirited Away, 2nd Howl’s Moving Castle, 3rd Nausicaa 4th Totoro 5th Laputa 6th Princess Mononoke ( yeah, I know, it deserves better) 7th: Kiki’s delivery service 8th: Porco Rosso Now if I should rank it about music, Howl’s moving castle goes first, then Spirited away, then Totoro, and next Nausicaa (the intro, the lullaby and the ending are so great)

[@HelTra91]

1. Princess Mononoke 2. Howl's Moving Castle 3. Nausicaa 4. From Up on Poppy Hill 5. The Wind Rises I adore them all, although Pom Poko was weird AF.

[@emilioperez6888]

Japanese folklore, so westerners will have no idea what the fuck is going on.

[@mimsy1644]

This guy's disrespectful laughing is so annoying.

[@TrophyReacts]

Because I reacted to a film differently than how you did it’s disrespectful? What a load of waffle

[@user-dc8md5by8w]

@@TrophyReacts自分で映像出しといてちょっとクレーム言われたからって食ってかかるのは違うような気がするよ。人間が小さい証拠である。つまらないゲイである。

[@Yngvarfo]

There is a huge manga of the story. I haven't read it yet, but the size tells me that it must greatly expand on the story. Miyazaki apparently likes those crooked evil smiles. If you watch The Castle of Cagliostro (not Ghibli, since Ghibli didn't exist yet), the bad guy looks very similar. You have seen The Cat Returns, but *not* Whisper of the Heart? You should The Cat Returns is kinda a sequel. Or maybe a story told within Whisper of the Heart, since that is mostly realistic, except for some odd details.

[@smq7184]

日本語版だとナウシカの声優とアスベルの声優はもののけ姫でも共演するんですよね。 アスベルとアシタカが同じ声優でした。

[@christopherb501]

It's been like five HOURS; how is this video still up?!?

[@TrophyReacts]

Why wouldn’t it be up?

[@kalakritistudios]

LMAO

[@kyuokuo]

@@TrophyReacts the copyright for ghibli movies is strong!

[@adrianmak9680]

Btw this movie only capture like 1/8 content of the full manga

[@laurainathunderstorm]

I haven't finished the video but I just wanted to tell you that Nausicaa is wearing pants 😂😂 why are they the same color as her skin? I don't know 😅 but they're there.

[@rohan1970b]

My favorite is Castle in the Sky (Laputa).

[@moon_0207]

Not many know this, but this movie is based off the manga.

[@MedusaLegend]

Guys, can you imagine if they suddenly decided to make live action remakes of the Ghibli animes?

[@beetehwez7752]

Love to see people watch great things that I also adore. That said, a correction needs establishing. Ghibli was not formed as a company and collective studio until production began on Laputa/Castle in the Sky. Nausicaä was produced by Miyazaki and Takahata at Top Craft. People make the same mistake with Castle of Cagliostro, which was Miyazaki but not Ghibli.

[@lorettabes4553]

29:12 I have the same thing! I also can't do the Star Trek thing 🖖 My pinkie and ring finger just don't want to meet up

[@davidmichaelson1092]

The manga version of this is one of the deepest, most amazing epics I have ever read. The movie is roughly the first quarter of the manga, more or less. When Nausicaa goes berserk, it is amazing! Beautiful in every way. Sadly the first attempt to dub it was a disaster, almost convincing Miyazaki never to allow his movies to be dubbed again. It took Disney to talk him into it again. This is the good dub. The bad dub just makes me cringe! Even changed the names and music.

[@enterpriseuss1910]

Чел пол фильма ржет , даже где убивают , ты больной или как

[@JediMB]

Every time KZbin recommends a reaction to my girl Nausicaä's movie, they're watching the damn dub. 🥲 👀

[@edward18517]

Such a happier ending than the manga XD

[@TrophyReacts]

Ooh what happens in the manga?

[@edward18517]

​@@TrophyReacts Well, for starters the movie's only like...maybe a fifth or sixth of what the manga is. The movie started being worked on while Miyazaki was creating the earlier parts of the manga, and the manga itself wouldn't be completed until 1994, 12 years after it started (he'd keep working on it between movies). The stuff with the Torumekians and their princess (Kushana) using the God Warrior don't happen and Nausicaa, when she leaves with their forces, ends up delving further into the mainland (the movie only shows a small part along the outskirts of society). There's a lot more war and death and stuff further into the manga (Mr. Slant-Mouth even almost dies at one point but is saved after he gets injured trying to help them get away from enemy forces). As it progresses more and more villages get swallowed up by the bugs and the Toxic Jungle that they propogate (with The Empire (the main enemy faction)) developing a new type of substances that causes the forest to grow even faster endangering society even more. The Empire is the main driving forces behind the conflict which is never shown in the film. At first Miralupa is the one leading The Empire (if I remember right the Empire is The Doroks) and has immense psychic abilities but isn't able to kill Nausicaa and she ends up leading him into the afterlife after making their way through the Jungle. It's also shown that at the other side of the Jungle birds and normal life are actually living beyond it and the air is completely clean after going through the process of rejuvenation that the movie eludes to that far into the Jungle. But it's also implied that anyone that lives in Nausicaa's world will cough up blood and die in our type of environment meaning that if the planet ever does recover all those of Nausicaa's world will just die in the end anyway due to the environment that their bodies are used to. There are also people that live in the forest with devices to help them breathe and stuff, though it's revealed later after Nausicaa is eaten by an Ohmu and allowed to emerge from it that they produce a substance that allows people to be able to breathe in The Toxic Jungle without a mask, which a few of the others that live there end up ingesting afterwards from the substance that emerges with Nausicaa. After Miralupa dies, his brother, the actual Emperor, emerges from where he'd been submerged during his brother's reign due to the advances that their society has allowing him to live an elongated life span. Eventually things come to a head when The God Warrior is finally born in the manga and it ends up thinking Nausicaa is its mother. The Emperor's head gets chopped off and falls to the Earth below (they're on airships at the time) but the head is laughing at the apocalypse that it seems like will be assured as his head falls (his head is able to stay alive without the body due to how advanced of genetics The Empire is able to manipulate). The Torumekian Princess's brothers also end up trying to get her killed though she survives and her brothers end up coming across a sanctuary of sorts with Nausicaa in the wasteland that has all sorts of animals living there under the care of some man who has all sorts of books from The Old World. Nausicaa also heals there after she'd started to become ill from being in contact with The God Warrior (it's never stated but it's implied that she was getting Radiation Poisoning from it) and the man that oversees the sanctuary tells her that there are others hidden out there in the wastelands to preserve things from The Old World for when Earth would finally recover. After getting information about where she needs to go she sets out for The Empire's capital (the Torumekian Princes stay at the sanctuary as they enjoy it there) and the capital ends up being where Mito, other allies of Nausicaa's, and some Torumekian forces all end up converging at while the rest of the world begins to succumb to the ever-growing Toxic Jungle with survivors mainly taking refuge on plateaus and such. At the Empire's capital there is a seemingly impenetrable structure, The Crypt, that everyone tries to break into and which Nausicaa does manage to get into (as does the Vai Emperor (Kushana's step-father)). Within the Crypt it's shown to be rather creepily advanced with parts of it seeming to be like the characters are inside of some creature's organs and there's living heads without bodies that talk to them and stuff. It's essentially where The Empire has been able to get their advancements from and they had even started developing Ohmus themselves with its aide. Nausicaa ultimately makes it to The Master of The Crypt which is some entity that chooses who is to be the new ruler of The World once a previous ruler dies. The chamber also contains various pods that humans from The Old World are still alive within, waiting for the day when the Earth would finally be cleansed and liveable for them again. The World of Nausicaa essentially ends up being revealed to have been constructed by those of The Old World in a plan to clean the pollution that had ruined the planet. The Ohmu and Toxic Jungle were designed to filter it and the humans of Nausicaa's world had been created to maintain things until the world was finally fixed, at which point the people of Nausicaa's world would die off due not being able to survive in the repaired environment. The Master of the Crypt chooses Nausicaa as the new leader of the world but she rejects it calling out to The God Warrior and having it "Shine its Light" into The Crypt. The Vai Emperor who had made it into The Crypt's depths shields Nausicaa from the power that's given off as The Master of The Crypt is killed and The God Warrior dies. The Vai Emperor himself dies afterwards as everyone is able to reunite amidst the ruins, telling his step-daughter, Kushana, who is left as the leader of the Torumekians, to not kill anyone of their royal court or she would just end up killing and killing as he ended up doing. With the Empire and The Crypt in ruins, humanity's fate does not necessarily look like it might have the best future, but it is the choice that Nausicaa feels needed to be made. The ending gives a few suggestions as to what might have happened afterwards but ends by saying something along the lines of "that is not for this story to tell".

[@MrKmoconne]

The better version of this film was Princess Mononoke. It's kind of the same theme and same characters. Miyazaki had matured as a person and a director. Nausicaa was not actually produced under Studio Ghibili, it was under Topcraft. The entire Nausicaa story was better rounded out in the manga series.

[@nicholasbrassard3512]

My absolute fav Ghibli film (and also fav of all time) is Princess Mononoke! God I love that movie

[@user-oh3nl7jq9k]

なんかジブリとかもののけ姫が好きな割には、内容理解してないんだなと思いました。 笑うシーンじゃない所で笑ってるのよく分からない。 多分吹き替えの話し方に対して笑ってるのかな？ そうじゃない所でも笑ってるけど。 日本語音声で英語字幕にしてジブリを観ればいいのに。 ジブリは日本人が作った日本の映画だから、日本語の意味や解釈を英語では表しきれない部分があると思いますので。 まぁ、このコメントも英語に翻訳されて読まれるんだろうから、投稿者に言いたいことも伝わらないんだろうなぁ そもそも読まれるかわからないし笑

[@ThePorpoisepower]

As much as I love and respect Patrick Stewart... he's too damn posh to be Master Yupa.

[@TheRedPeril]

My ex made me watch a Studio Ghibli film. Was good. Can’t remember the name though. Was some girl on a bit of a revenge rampage

[@TrophyReacts]

I literally don’t know which one that could be 😅😂

[@alinac5512]

Princess Mononoke? Was the film pretty brutal?

[@JKL-JKL-JKL]

Princess mononoke?

[@ZARA9056f9]

深刻なシーンでもずっと馬鹿にしたように笑ってリアクションしていて気持ち悪くなりました。

[@marinaryu5463]

この人とは、感情を共有できないな。 何が面白いのか、全くわかんない

[@user-pl8ym3uz1b]

ほんとそれです。 バカにされてるようで不快です。

[@laughingvampire7555]

for some reason the Japanese pronounce Ghibli as Jeeblee

[@jessquinn6106]

This is not the original.

[@user-qt6de7xe8e]

笑う場面でないのになにコイツ笑ってんの？

[@zetzle]

ghibli dubs are good, but make sure you're watching the right ones. my neighbor totoro was re-dubbed by disney using the fanning sisters and it Completely Ruins the entire watching experience. yes, it's possible i have too strong feelings about it, but i'm also right. 1993 dub for life

[@TrophyReacts]

Do you know which version is on Netflix?

[@zetzle]

@@TrophyReacts no, but the 1993 dub exists online somewhere

[@williambranch4283]

Japanese do love their bugs

[@tomomib8539]

Nausicaa isn’t a Ghibli movie. You got a wrong information on your video title.