Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Careful Miya-san, she's contagious!  Hayao "I heart military aircraft but not in an otaku way m'kay" Miyazaki's timeless fable of ecological devastation and the valiant efforts of a young autistic kung fu scientist woman with a love for the bugs and fungi of her radioactive hell world.  This is a custom edition of the Animage laserdisc edition [98LX-1] of *Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind* (a.k.a. *Warriors of the Wind*, 1984), which offers a basic telecine of the film with pristine, vivid color grading not seen on any release since. The film is presented without video matting, so sometimes, things you're not supposed to see in the animation seeps through, like this shot of the juvenile Ohmu/Gorgon:  So yeah, I went through the trouble of syncing up a buncha cool audio tracks, including a custom version of the actually-not-the-worst-thing-in-the-world-whatsoever abridged export dub written by the director of *Crawlspace* and produced by the ADR supervisor of a *Godzilla* film, where our plucky teenage heroine is voiced by a nasally midland accent woman in her forties (we love you Susan!), which you aren't allowed to talk about anymore or else Toshio Suzuki and his army of hivemind weebs will mail you a prop katana. Video: 720x480 4:3 3200kbps x264, 23.976p, manual IVTC, GOUT-synced to 2010/2014 Japanese BDs, so all audio tracks will sync to those releases.  Audio: FLAC Japanese - Animage Hi-Fi VHS (better fidelity than the analog-only LD) FLAC Japanese - Stereo Drama CD audio (custom sync with some editorial liberties) FLAC English - *Warriors of the Wind* dub Hi-Fi VHS hybrid audio (cut portions revert to M&E track. Sourced from my personal ex-rental copy of the original New World SP mode VHS) 192kbps AC3 English - Buena Vista Sound Services dub (Disney 2005 DVD, actually the best fidelity version of this dub outside the lossless demo VHS tape) FLAC Music & Effects track FLAC Isolated score (custom assemblage from albums, German 5.1 remix and M&E track) FLAC Commentary by key animator Hideaki Anno and assistant director Kazuyoshi Katayama (2003)  Subs: English (common subs with some slight revisions) English SDH for *Warriors of the Wind* dub English SDH for Buena Vista Sound Services dub Japanese SDH English subtitles for commentary track (GKids translation)  Screenshots:                   Chapters (remember those?) are based on the physical reel structure of the film:   Subs vs. 1984 SDH vs. 2004 SDH example:    Stay safe out there this fall!  Coexist.