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From: ins_atrh@jhunix.UUCP (Thomas Richard Holtz)
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Subject: Re: Latest on Arthur Adams (or, more specifically, the P.S.)
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 21:04:21 EST
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(Please excuse any ineptitude here.  I'm not used to the net yet.)

As to the plot of Nausicaa, this is as much as I can remember:

      On what may be (in my opinion) an Earth colony seperated from
the mother planet and become technologically more primitive (like
MacCaffrey's Pern), huge humanoid alien beings attacked the humans,
only to be repelled by equally large giant arthropods (which looked kind
of like potato bugs).  Anyway, that war ended long before the story begins,
and much of that knowledge has been lost.
     Beginning of movie:  our heroine, Nausicaa, a cute young woman
who's a dead ringer for Clarice Cagliostro from the Lupin III movie
"Castle Cagliostro", is a member of a fairly primitive, pseudomedieval 
village in an isolated valley.  She goes in for things like flying around
on her jet-propelled surfboard contraption and making friends with the
wildlife of her homeworld's nasty jungles.  On one of her excursions
she gets involved in a war between two more advanced (roughly 20th century
Earth technology) nations.  One side wants to use the potato bugs to
trash the enemy's cities, while the other is trying to resurrect a mutant
version of the giant humanoid invaders, with a radioactive breath weapon
like a small Wave-Motion Gun. (You following all of this?)
     Anyway, lots of bad things happen to both sides, lots of things go
wrong, Nausicaa falls in love with a handsome pilot, etc.  The movie
is basically a pro-enviromentalist statement ("Don't fool with Mother
Nature!!!"), is VERY well animated, and (now get this)
         HAS RECENTLY BEEN RELEASED IN ENGLISH!!!!!
     I haven't seen the English version myself, so I can't tell you
how close it is to the original.  
                                               Tom Holtz,
                                                      Dominus Draconum