Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a story about a girl in a post-apocalyptic world slowly being consumed by the Sea of Corruption, with extreme attention to detail and visuals. The reason I highlight the visuals is that other than those, the movie doesn't have that much to offer. The world Nausicaä is set in is absolutely amazing, beautiful, but ultimately unexplored due to it being a two hour movie. This is more of a criticism of its formatting, Nausicaä was a visually amazing movie, especially for it's time being from 1984 and still holding up visually to anime released today. The effort put into animating some of the ohms and the titan is absurd, especially it all being hand drawn, while something like it would be heavily CGI nowadays.

Nausicaä serves as less of a traditional story and world, but more as examples and possibilities; the main themes of the movie being how issues are best handled by pacifism and diplomacy as well as the respect of nature. My first and lesser critique of this movie is how the main character feels less like a real human, but more of a one dimensional role model. She serves as a very good role model, but as a character there isn't much depth to her or really any of the other characters in the movie, as we are just thrown into this world with its characters. This being a movie, the lack of depth and exploration is reasonable, although.

Now onto my critique of the world and the story in general, I think given a TV format would've benefitted the story immensely. The world of Nausicaä is vastly unexplored, and I think given a series it could've had amazing worldbuilding and more exploration of the forests in general. We only get a small glimpse into the history of the world of Nausicaä, even though it has so much that could've been explored there. This is reasonably natural although, it is a movie after all.

I think by this point you can tell my main critiques and issues with the movie lie in its un-used potential and opportunity that could've been with different formatting. The story could have been an amazing saga or journey if given different formatting, more development, exploration of the world and worldbuilding. Despite have immense missed potential and opportunity, the movie was still good at what it did do, but very lacking where it did not focus. The overall movie is a good one, it has fantastic visuals and a nice soundtrack, with a little over-usage of a few songs at times. It does have its flaws. I would still recommend the movie even with its flaws, it's an old and ahead of it's time classic that is still aesthetically holding up extremely well even today.