Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 3

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 3 by Miyazaki, Hayao. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781569311110.

Humanity in its hubris, has precipitated a devastating environmental disaster. Flourishing industrial civilizations have been swallowed up by the Sea of Corruption, an enormous forest of fungi that releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. Nausicaa, a compassionate young princess, and her allies battle to heal a wounded world and its inhabitants. Now Nausicaa embarks on an inner, spiritual journey to the very heart of the Sea of Corruption, where she discovers its surprising secret! Compelled to share her discovery, she returns to the land of the living. But then she accidentally awakens a God Warrior, a biotechnological abomination of the war known as the Seven Days of the Fire, from its stasis. And now the monstrous, yet childlike, God Warrior thinks Nausicaa is its mother!