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I know. The cover art is great and makes no sense. Some dude with an assault rifle (I guess supposed to be Milo/Asbel) riding a sandworm along with his buddy Dr
by upghost 1y ago
I know. The cover art is great and makes no sense. Some dude with an assault rifle (I guess supposed to be Milo/Asbel) riding a sandworm along with his buddy Dr. Doom I guess, a squid guy with a lightsaber (firewarrior probably?) and there's a guy flying pegasus for some reason? [1] Truly iconic.
Some of that is explainable but the pegasus, dude on the pegasus, and Dr Doom ... makes absolutely zero sense. I guess this is the rock opera version we never got. Maybe Dr Doom somehow sorta kinda was supposed to be Princess Kushana..?? I think the squid guy is a firewarrior, but so is the "sandworm" -- some kind of fever dream Ohm/Gorgon/Firewarrior mix. But why is a tiny adult fire warrior riding a baby giant fire warrior? lololol
I can only imagine the requirements gathering session that lead to this debacle.
Legendary.
[1]: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/00/fe/12/00fe121ffa3600cfb14bbbe1cca106c9--wind-movie-studio-ghibli.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/00/fe/12/00fe121ffa3600cfb14bbbe1c...
Edit: Dear haters, I <3 <3 <3 Warriors of the Wind and all things Nausicaa, incl. the quirky cover. I even love your downvotes, it means you read this and cared enough to click the button, which hopefully means you are defending the cover. So I love you too!
- the_af 1y agoThanks for taking the time to write this! I'm... appalled by that cover. I wasn't familiar with it. It's bizarre how all the elements of Nausicaa are technically there, yet it looks completely different (in a bad way). Nothing at all like the actual artwork of the movie!
- ionwake 1y agoThis is brilliant thank you for sharing ! wtf is he riding Pegasus !!!! This is so much more barmy than I remembered - either the screenshots on the back were great or the cover was different. Great post - thanks
- Hikikomori 1y agoThe hollywood version.