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The movie is a very condensed "greatest hits" album, I would say at LEAST half the story, if not three quarters is missing entirely from the film. The film does a very amazing job of foreshortening a lot of the character development of characters like Princess Kushana, Kurotawa, and Master Yupa. The Manga really expands on these characters and there are many other characters and plotlines that don't even appear in the film at all, I'm just telling you, it really changes the story quite a bit.
If anybody is wondering, Shuna's Journey is also truly excellent but disappointingly short, another Miyazaki work that would make a great film or anime.
And the original "Princess Mononoke" manga is fairly neato, way too short, but in this case, it's the anime film which is way more expansive. The manga is a cool little bedtime story that bears almost no relation whatsoever to the film of the same name.
But the Nausicaa Manga is a masterpiece. The film alone does not really do it justice. If it got a proper, full adaptation, there isn't much it wouldn't fucking mog.
