Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 film adapts the opening of his own manga, which he began in Animage in 1982 and went on drawing until 1994, so most of the manga's story is not in the film.
Manga· 1982· Science Fiction
風の谷のナウシカ (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)
by 宮崎 駿 Hayao Miyazaki
風の谷のナウシカ (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind): 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 4 recorded sources.
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Hayao Miyazaki named Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea among the works behind the Nausicaä manga, with Aldiss's Hothouse, Asimov's Nightfall and The Lord of the Rings.
Miyazaki named Mœbius's wordless Arzach as a comic that deeply impressed and inspired him.
Hayao Miyazaki named Brian Aldiss's Hothouse among the works behind the Nausicaä manga.
Miyazaki listed The Lord of the Rings among the fantasy works behind the Nausicaä manga, alongside Earthsea, Hothouse and Nightfall.