Dune influenced 風の谷のナウシカ (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)

Miyazaki's Nausicaä shares Dune's ecological premise: a world after catastrophe, a poisoned environment that turns out to be restoring itself, giant creatures that humans misread as monsters (the Ohmu, like Herbert's sandworms), and a heroine who understands the ecology when the armies do not. HIGH : Hayao Miyazaki has officially acknowledged Frank Herbert's Dune as a major influence on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.