Nausicaä was inspired by both a Japanese folktale, "The Lady who Loved Insects," and the Phaeacian princess from Homer’s Odyssey .
The Internet Archive’s lending library hosts scanned pages of classic animation magazines from the 1980s and 1990s, such as Animage (the magazine where Miyazaki originally serialized the Nausicaä manga). nausicaa of the valley of the wind internet archive
Joe Hisaishi’s score for Nausicaä is legendary, blending electronic synthesizers with grand orchestral arrangements. The Internet Archive holds various community-uploaded audio files, which sometimes include: Nausicaä was inspired by both a Japanese folktale,