She is followed by Mito, who travels on a reclaimed gunship. After receiving counsel from the village seer Oh-baba, Nausicaä leaves the valley in hopes of finding a way to prevent the conflict from spreading any further. The leaders of the Periphery states are vassals to the Torumekian Emperor and are obliged to send their forces to help when he invades the neighboring Dorok lands. When the Valley goes to war, Nausicaä's takes her ailing father's place as military chief. As they return to the Valley, Yupa informs Nausicaä's father King Jhil of the herds of Ohmu attacking human villages and spreading of the spores' miasma. She takes in a young fox squirrel, naming it Teto. She is reunited with Lord Yupa following an encounter with an Ohmu. An inquisitive young woman, she explores the territories surrounding the Valley on a jet-powered glider, and studies the toxic, spore-filled forests. Nausicaä is the princess of the Valley of the Wind, a state on the periphery of what was once known as Eftal, a kingdom destroyed by the Sea of Corruption, a poisonous forest, 300 years ago. Nausicaä travels to spore-filled forest to study its ecology.
It received the 23rd Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize (大賞, Taishō) in 1994 and the 26th Seiun Award Comic Category in 1995. It was serialized with an English translation in North America by Viz Media from 1988 to 1996 as a series of 27 comic book issues and has been published in collected form multiple times. Production was delayed four times due to Miyazaki focusing on film production. The manga began serialization in the February 1982 issue of Animage magazine and was completed in March 1994.
Miyazaki was also strongly inspired by French comic artist Jean Giraud Moebius' Arzach (1975), as seen in the documentary, Ghibli: The Miyazaki Temple. The story itself was inspired by the 1971 comic Rowlf by American cartoonist Richard Corben, while the name Nausicaä was derived from the Greek epic Odysseus. The first volume was adapted into the film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984 and a Kabuki stage play in 2019. It tells the story of Nausicaä, a princess of a small kingdom on a post-apocalyptic Earth with a bioengineered ecological system, who becomes involved in a war between kingdoms while an environmental disaster threatens humankind. 17 million Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is a manga by Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki that was first serialized on Tokuma Shoten's Animage magazine from 1982 to 1994.
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