“Miyazaki's dark children's graphic novel about war's devastation, serving as prototype for Nausicaä with Tezuka-influenced art.”
Sabaku no Tami
砂漠の民
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Miyazaki's dark children's graphic novel about war's devastation, serving as prototype for Nausicaä with Tezuka-influenced art.
Is a manga which Miyazaki wrote for a newspaper targeted for children. It is more of a graphic novel than a manga, since most of the text are written outside of the frames and there are very few dialogue bubbles (though towards the end of the story, it moved closer to the traditional manga style). The surprisingly dark story deals with the devastation of war, betrayal, and the ugliness of the human nature under desperate situations, including deaths of several characters. One can see the influence of Tezuka Osamu in the art style of this manga (as in most of the manga written in this time), but you can also clearly see the style and motives you find in Miyazaki's later works such as "Nausicaä." In a sense, this is a prototype of "Nausicaä."
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A Manga Publication
- Format 26 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 28m approx
- Published Sep 1969 – Mar 1970
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M11642 catalog