How This Legendary Director's Obsession With an Ancient Bug Girl Blew Up His Career
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Story of the Lady Who Loved Insects, and how she kick started Hayao Miyazakiâs career.
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00:00 Beauty and the Director
05:06 Why he named her NausicaÀ
07:49 The Lady Who Loved Insects
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What do you think about the bug girl?
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She and he meet again later and , knock it off? It sounds like a cute progress of a relationship?
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I felt bad putting off a portrait in art until the last minute and it became my art teacher's favorite piece by any of the students he'd ever taught.
Sometimes it works that way for videos too đ
I like to think of that not as putting off a project but of putting as much time as possible into the concept stage.
Ironically, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro is now considered an all-time classic, and both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg quote it as the one of the major insprations for Raider Of The Lost Ark.
That was some smooth stealth advertising.
"They admitted she was clever but was probably not right in the head." 10:17 min.
I *SO* can relate đč
Miyazaki is many things, and subtle was never one of them but I think that's also what makes his work endearing. As a storyteller I think he is a masterclass because his stories are so universal; while many come from the folklore of Japan he also encouperates much of world mythology and everything about stories from around the world that are universal to humans.
Don't forget his obsession of flight machines and chase scenes, great money shots.
At least you admitted that he's anything but subtle. Sadly the rest is the typical ridiculous fanboyish Miyasoymilk-worshipping.
Nausicaa is my favourite Ghibli movie. It's got the wonder and beauty of every Ghibli movie, but it has an ugly brutality to it which is appropriate for the setting.
Nausicaa, as a character, is how you do a messianic character right. She's kindhearted, but you do glimpse some darkness in her. She sacrifices and suffers and even dies to save her people.
It also has a weird soundtrack.
I assume you've read the manga but if not, DO IT. It makes the movie look bad in comparison (I love the movie, my favourite too).
It has amazing music. What I heard is that Miyazaki wrote it.
Ironic, as Nausicaa was produced by Topcraft, Studio Ghibli wouldn't be founded until a year later in 1985.
It is a Miyazaki movie to be more precise.
@@paleoph6168 I know it isn't technically a Ghibli movie, but I still consider it as such. Unlike Miyazaki's previous films, Nausicaa feels like a Ghibli movie. And the success of the film is what made the formation of Ghibli possible.
I love that they included the Bug Girl in Omnyoji so much! I remember hearing about her in a storybook when I was little, and I was so happy that she got some attention in the anime. I hope she went on to travel around the country, studying her bugs and answering her questions.
He Official's Reply Poem Meant: "I am less than a bug to you. What need to you have of my name?"
Japanese history and folklore/legend has so much material for Miyazaki to make movies out of.
now depending on which Miyazaki, you might get a different sort of movies.
Miyazaki 1 is more about dreamy child-friendly movies,
Miyazaki 2 is about that child becoming an abusive god after an age of prosperity so another worthless hero is destined to cut it down.
And games too
As a former autistic kid who loved watching bugs, I empathize so much with the girl who liked bugs. Heck yeah autistic queen, you keep on doing your thing.
That was my impression too, she was so awesomely autistic she became a Fuckin' Legend.
You have no proof she was autistic.
Was getting those vibes too. Especially since autistics can have difficulty with hygiene.
â@lainiwakura1776 yeah, I enjoy watching bugs and I'm not autistic. I also struggled with hygiene when I was deeply depressed. I wish people would stop trying to diagnose the long-since deceased from different cultures with different practices. We have no idea how certain environmental and cultural practices would have impacted their personalities and daily struggles since we're so far removed from it. Even professionals can only speculate and give educated guesses, and even those are bound to change as more knowledge is gained.
@@lainiwakura1776 Why is a diagnosis necessary to empathize and identify with a character portrayal?
âJoe-Schmobunagaâ made me choke on my Cheetos, haha
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What a fascinating story and a shame the rest was lost to history. Despite how what the author could have meant given the times, the girl who loved bugs was still a fully-fledged character with strengths and flaws, and despite how others viewed her always had a good mindset of her own values. As such, I want to believe maybe the story was defying the social norms and she ended up managing to find her own happiness.
In addition, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, is an amazing film that was just ahead of its time.
I love this movie. I saw it years ago when i was a kid. Found out years later it was a comic. I bought it, showed my mother, then lost them for a few weeks.
Nausicaa was my first anime ever at 8 years old. To this day it hits different and no other ghibli movie can compare.
The bug girl story though is so sad, she was ostracized and made fun of for "being weird" when it was sociality itself that was too restrictive at the time.
Of course even ancient Japanese people will have seen some good in this biologist. If he didn't like her, why did he keep sending her poems? If she was not lovable, how is it that her family and age-mates liked her so much? Maybe she will marry one of the boys who help her gather insects.
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And now here I am to say the manga is better.
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"there she goes again, saying silly things we cant argue with"
ah, yes, the ground is made of sky... lol
Have been lucky enough to gt a cell from The Castle Cagliostri, that has Lupin and the Princess in it.
I like the bug girl. đ
Nausicaa is one of my favorite Ghibli movies but a lot of people have never seen it.
A few months ago, I took a class on poetry. Coincidentally, a lot of the poems I wrote for that class were about bugs.
Iâd love to read some of your poems as a big fan of bugs!
As an autistic lady, the bug girl is severely relatable
Stop bragging about your weakness and claiming characters for you.
â@@candide1065 bro shut the hell up, autistic people are awesome
@@cellinemartins Like morbidly obese people? And people who don't know their own sex? And people with borderline personality? And cancer? Tell me you're a failiure without telling me.
â@@candide1065lol you're a weakness, get better
@@candide1065 wtf? Are you okay, buddy?
This is a weird suggestion, but if you're a Gintama fan, I'd love a video on the historical setting and connections made in the animme!
Thank you for another awesome video Linfamy! I really enjoy the coloring style for this videođIts really soft and refreshing! I had no idea Nausicaa was inspired by a japanese story, and the best part is both of the free-thinking bug girl stories are amazing in their own ways!!
â..where any regular Joe Shmoe-bunaga could see her..â
hahahaha nice
I've never done anything for the first time.
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Well, you should try to some time. There's always a first time for everything
@@Heulerado I....I just did...
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Ah yes, Nausicaa. It's one of my favorite anime films. Though I would consider it to be merely an appetizer for the much more detailed manga version that Miyazaki himself wrote.
never knew about these unproduced films of Mizyaki good job
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Another amazing video !
I love Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. It's my favorite Hayao Miyazaki movie. I'm hoping to get a full set of the manga so I can see how the story continued.
Wait wait wait, where's this story from? You know me, I'm a sucker for Heian Period stories and I would love a crack at the original text. The only way I'm gonna be able to guess about the poetry is if I see the original.
It's from a collection called Tsutsumi ChĆ«nagon Monogatari ć €äžçŽèšç©èȘ
@@Linfamy Excellent. I'll take a look later today. My deepest thanks
đGreat video. As someone relatively new to anime (started in 2021), I have not seen any Miyazaki movies, except Ponyo this year. I remember seeing trailers for Spirited Away back in Nigeria but never saw itđą But I have taken steps to rectify this by buying several of his studio films digitally. Now I can finally watch and appreciate his genius.
Hope you enjoy the films!
I remember reading this in elementary school in a school library book. I can't remember the ending but was definitely some "Happily Ever After" type of take. I believe it was titled the Caterpillar Princess or something like that.
Caterpillar Princess is not a bad name :)
@@Linfamy I'm not sure that's what is was but it sounded something like that. I haven't been able to find anything about it. It was probably like 2005 when I read it
I found it. It was actually called "The Girl who Loved Caterpillars" and I guess it was faithful to ending of not having one so I must have made that part up, but I think it went with the interpretation that the note said he wasn't good enough for her.
Hello, I didn't watch any of your videos in a while and I have to say "I love how you visuals look now đ"
Thanks! I appreciate it
love your drawings
14:36 He was saying that beautifully romantic, classic old line, "No one will ever love you but me."
12:54 i thought the bias they had against bare teeth and purpose of covering them in sulfur and charcoal was to prevent staining from tea and food? Basically their way of dealing with/preventing yellowing of the teeth.
So wouldnt his disgust be more that he teeth are stained yellow?
Ghibli is pronounced with a hard 'g'. In italian, G followed by I is soft unless an H is placed in between.
You're right, but it's neither the first, nor the last time the Japanese didn't care for the native pronunciation. They called the studio "Sutajio Jiburi" and we can go eff ourselves.
The artist should illustrate children's books!
Wow I didn't know the girl who loved insects from netflix's onmyuji is actually a famous girl in Japanese literature
I love the movie and just recently bought the manga volumes as special print. I wasn't aware of so much stuff missing in the movie - after all I shouldn't be THAT surprised I guees. Anyway - going to read the manga now. See ya XD
I still remember putting off a portrait of my baby sister eating a egg the face frustrated me so much but my mom found it hilarious her face is a egg
Favorite movie and manga
Bug girl sounds like an autistic icon & i love her, happy disability pride month!
I watched this movie when I six years old on an old vhs tape lent to my father.
It was unlike anything i had seen. A strong princess who DID things for her community instead of the disney and storybook princesses shoved down my throat at an early age who sat idle and usually got kidnapped.
She flew gunships and killed people in a rage. She got along with all animals, not just the pretty ones. She fought and got wounded and was a real person almost in a fantasy world. She was the first princess I could see myself in when I was a child.
Sat idle and got kidnapped!?
Snow White had to escape an assassination attempt, and became the boss of the seven dwarves
Cinderella was fighting to stay positive while stuck in an abusive situation... something MANY people can relate to!
Sleeping Beauty...well, she wasn't the real main character, the three good fairies were, and Prince Phillip was unable to do much without their help.
Jasmine just wanted to be treated like a human, and refused to marry someone who wouldn't do so.
Belle was able to recognize the red flags surrounding Gaston while the rest of the village thought he was great
Ariel was hyperfixating on humans and only accepted Ursula's deal because of how her father treated her
And that's just the 90's and prior!
Also, of those examples, Jasmine was technically the only one kidnapped! (Belle agreed to stay with The Beast, her father was the kidnapped one)
You don't have to put down other women to raise one up.
Hope you grow up one day and don't have to project your feminist sensibilities into a cartoon character and that you'll be able someday to just enjoy a normal show without expecting characters of your sex to dominate a show so you feel better about not being strong in your real life.
@@PyroGothNerd Even if you kinda tried to say the right thing there (I guess), all of what you wrote are made up bs interpretations.
All of these movies are based on fairy tails which were written hundreds of years ago when there were no strahng whamen, boss ladies and feminists who could destroy a story with obtrusive gaslighting (which is why stories then were much better than stories today).
The reason why Disneys fairytail movies were so successful is because they didn't pander to any woke people by making women strong as if that has ever been the point about women OR movies.
Japan's first legendary Real One
Kazuo Umezu?
Man, I hope they pay you double for the work you put in those advertisements
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You're telling me there's more to the story of Nausicaa?!
:D
One frame of Onmyoji and you don't mention its significance? Bug girl is the best character among several great characters in that anime.
It's "Now-see-kay-ah"!
OMG Cagliostro is my favorite Miyazaki ever! I didn't know it was a failure!
Bug girl rules
It's real! Nausicaa is a character in the Odysee!
EDIT: wait... Nausicaa's mother is Arete? wow
I'm glad the story ended there. Considering the era when it was written I was afraid it would end in a worse note.
I wish we knew the rest. đ
Me too!
wow
sad the lupin III movie didn't work out so well. I remember Lupin III being pretty much the first anime I ever watched willingly. There was dragonball but I never really cared about that one
The bug girl story was retold in the Onmyoji limited series anime. I had no idea it was a medieval story.
"Counting your samurai before they are appointed" lol, yasuke.
Great video, as always!
Thanks!
Love the bug girl. Love the snack interlude. And love the Miyazake animation. What a great episode
Miyzaki's Adventures In Totland
Aye..
I particularly enjoy your drawing style in this video!
Now Iâm starting to wonder why thereâs so many stories of, âsaving the village,â when every single person in the village seems to be a judgemental asshole.
We know a neurodivergent Queen when we see her.
The intolerance to grooming practices could certainly be due to sensory overstimulation associated with autism and ADHD. Autism could also explain the way she takes religious teachings very literally, unlike other people.
And I know someone who has never touched someone of the opposite sex when I see them.
@@candide1065 Buddy, I was fucking both sexes while you were still in your daddy's balls, now shut up because I use my cuck-seeking radar to find him and give him a son he'll actually be proud of.
@@VoltasP That must be the most cringworthy insult I have heard in years if not decades and I work in an elementary school. Has anyone ever clapped for you and your pathetic "burns" outside of your favorite gay club and your grannies living room?
Please, please, PLEASE, do a video on Mushi-shi. That show is the shit, easily in my top 3 animes
bugs go brr
If the bug girl have lived today she would have dr degree on biology and make youtube videos about catepillars, butterlies, bugs, etc on her free time.
15:00 Really? "The original author probably meant his story to be a warning that you should follow social rules." Based on your description and the context, I thought it was an explicitly Buddhist story. It seems to discuss suffering, ćèŠć «èŠ, and without-attachment as the way to reduce suffering. But, I haven't read any scholarship, so I have no idea.
I recently read his early graphic novel "shuna's journey". it incorporates a tibetan legend, but it's mainly interesting because you can see quite a few archetypes and concepts he later uses in various movies, especially nausicÀa
I've never read it, how was it?
@@Linfamy lots of pretty aquarell tones, though it still manages to portray meager landscapes. reminded me of the pretty desert scenery of nausicÀa. a few characters also similar to mononoke no hime. also some nice character building, though untypical for miyazaki to have a young male hero as a leading role. i would recommend it to people interested in the evolution von miyazakis graphic concepts and retelling of legends.
@@fmleverynameistakenx thanks!
The lady who like bugs was ahead of her times.
People say that whenever they don't know how to actually make a compliment to anything or anyone.
But why did he never made rwolf after, it sounds pretty good. It was to hasoda to bring werewolf, minus the wild scififantasy, where is cyberpunk werewolf? Where are my werewolves at, dung snubbed again :P
The manga is very good btw...and sad too
Yes, it is heartbreaking by the end of the series. He wrote the entire series over a period of 10 years, and is the only manga he has written.
Although I understand that social rules are important, they are not the most important things in the world. Being true to yourself is also very important. Being different or weird does not mean being unhappy. She didn't let other people define what happiness meant. And I like to think that, in the end, she did find her happily ever after, just not the kind that her peers could ever imagine.
Be like the bug girl.
If any of you are hesitant to go watch the theatre/broadway version of _Spirited Away_ , donât! Itâs ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT ! Book good seats because itâs that good. đđŒ
Definitely on the spectrum.
Hayao Miyazaki doing a Richard Colben, now THAT would be a wild ride!
Video is good but please can you pay more attention to the names? Without the subs it's impossible to tell that some "Nazka" is actually Nah-u-see-ka or Nah-u-see-kah-ya.
As a person who is enamored by bugs and loves studying them, I love the bug loving girl and her free spirit.
Hope she sees this bro
Ya know Thai folks eat bugs as food so some of them might scoff at this Japanese story. :P
Ghibli films were so unknown to most of our friends, that my sisterâs friends believed she made them up. Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, and Valley of the Wind were so different from other animated movies that people gaslighted her into believing she made them up. Luckily, that doesnât happen anymore.
That bug lady needs to be a gym leader in a Pokemon game. It's perfect!
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@@Linfamy how's life? How's your health?
Happy and healthy. I hope you are too!
@@Linfamy I'm doing well. Thanks for asking. Wishing you luck for the future!
Bug girl is very cool...I wish to meet her some day
Castle of Cogliostro's my favorite Miyazaki film! I had NO idea about the backstory that led into his next.
I've never watched, some others have mentioned that it's good too.
â@@LinfamyIt's oddly grounded yet simultaneously stylish, like for protagonists from an old 60s era spy thriller found themselves in a fantasy world.
Lupin is done a fantastic service as a character. In the later seasons of the show, he's often portrayed as a smarmy goof who mostly succeeds due to the stupidity and arrogance of those around. In the film you feel like that goofy personality is all just a façade and, when push comes to shove he, actually is clever and spectacularly talented, not just lucky.
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Miyazaki is a legend. He might actually be a male version of the girl who loved insects. He lives by his own rules. I have a lot of respect for him. My favourite Ghibli movie used to be "Princess MononokĂ©"...then a couple of months ago I could finally watch "Spirited Away" and it changed everything (đ€©).
Spirited Away is amazing
I can absolutely see Miyazaki (over)identifying with a little girl.
Funny thing, I found all the Ghibli movies and was just about to watch Nausicaa, when I dropped it in favor of My Neighbor Totoro. But Mononoke Hime is my favorite movie of all times, and hearing that that and Nausicaa are similar I got so excided to watch it next!
Hope you like it!
@@Linfamy Let's just say none of them lived up to Mononoke Hime imo
the Spiderman from Spirited Away feels like he could be Dr. Eggman's paranormal uncle
Mmm, bugs. đ„Žđ„”đ„”
Rowlf synopsis sounds wild also I was like Rowlf..... Rofl (Rolling on the floor laughing) yeah the title needs to change but the story sounds rad.
Born a biologist. If there is such a thing as reincarnation I hope she can live out her interest today.