Manson International's dubbed and abridged international export version of Miyazaki's *Nausicaä* (1984), which, despite being a comparatively tame localization of a foreign genre film for its time, has remained the opinionated anime fanboy's ire for nearly forty years, to the point where you cannot even have a nuanced conversation about it with the average hivemind weeb. If you're unfamiliar and want the basic gist of what's different in this version, read my article for [Wikizilla.org](https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind#U.S._release) or see to the [German Schnittberichte](https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=834) During the production of the film, without informing Miyazaki or the production staff, Tokuma Shoten, the primary financier of Miyazaki's project, covertly sold the overseas sales rights to the Tokyo-based import exporter World Film Corporation, who in turn pre-sold the distribution rights outside Japan and the Republic of Korea to Hollywood-based import-exporter Manson International, which was founded by Edmund Goldman, the former Columbia Pictures branch manager responsible for the purchase of the U.S. rights for the original *Godzilla* from Toho in 1955. 12-15-83,*The Hollywood Reporter*, page 4:  Although whoever re-edited the picture is uncredited (*who* would want to be remembered at this point?), the English-language dubbing was undertaken by longtime showman and ADR producer Riley Jackson, who had previously worked on many U.S. English versions of Toho kaiju films, and screenwriter David Schmoeller (of *Tourist Trap*, *Crawlspace* and *Puppet Master* fame). Schmoeller was tasked with reworking the dialogue of an existing English script, presumably provided by World Film as a basis, which he admitted in Empire of the B's (2014, Dave Jay, Nathan Shumate, and Torsten Dewi). For the dubbing cast Jackson assembled a troupe of established voice artists: Susan Davis (Princess of the Valley of the Wind, renamed Zandra in the dub.) Hal Smith (Lord Yupa, her martial arts teacher and mentor, as well as Axel, her one-eyed right-hand man) Linda Gary (the Amazonian conqueror Queen Selena of Temecula) Cam Clarke (Milo, Prince of Placida). All of these voice artists were clearly chosen not only because they had previous animation roles, but all had done dubbing as well as pre-lay. They were all professional and talented people, and quality of the dubbing suffers mainly from the editing of the film and what seems to be a very hurried recording session for all involved, which, because of their dubbing experience, is why they were chosen in the first place. 4-10-85, *The Hollywood Reporter*, page 8:  *Warriors of the Wind* premiered on October 29, 1984, at the MIFED in Milan, Italy. After shopping the edited film around at other various festivals and exhibitions, the North American buyer of the distribution rights was announced in April, 1985: New World Pictures, which founder Roger Corman had sold two years prior, so in spite of his ongoing legal battle with his former company over them not holding up their end of the bargain to distribute films produced by his new company, New Horizons, the B-Movie King had absolutely *nothing* to do with New World's handling or marketing of the film, which after disappointing trial runs in South Florida and Ohio, promptly vanished from cinemas outside of a few screens in the Northeast and Canadian provinces. Bummer. 10-2-85, *The Hollywood Reporter*, page 4:  After the unceremonious theatrical release and a festival screening of the film in Los Angeles, where it won first prize for animated feature, the film was shoved onto VHS and Beta by New World Video in November '85, and in early '86 by Vestron Video overseas in the UK and Australia. From August 6, 1986 (fittingly the 41st anniversary of Hiroshima) to June 1, 1988, it became a mainstay on HBO, which many older fans of anime can attest to. After VHS reissues in the U.S. in 1990 and 1993, in the UK, respectively, despite rumors of a DVD release in 2000 by Anchor Bay (who promptly quelled these rumors), *Warriors of the Wind* was swept away by the expiration of New World's NA rights in '95 and the go-forward on the 1996 Tokuma-Disney deal, never to be seen or heard on a release again. Now that Studio Ghibli has an uncut English dub they like, they have since made it their mission to bury this version from any sort of popular discussion, other than the same dead horse resurrections of it and its questionable NA artwork for clickbait top 10 lists. Pictured: Toshio Suzuki ordering Nausicaä fans to ["dismiss [this version] from [their] minds":](http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki//ghibli/history/history6e.html)  There is a much older 1080p version online. At this point, reconstructions of the Manson cut are a dime a dozen and go back over a decade. It's such an easy cut to reconstruct, but no version I've personally encountered strives to: 1. Preserve all unique English visuals. 2. Reinstate the Manson logo 3. Be of overall technical competency. I have used the 2010 Blu-ray because it's easier to color correct since it doesn't really have much of a built-in grade. I have strived for a neutral-looking grade with white balance as a primary goal.  There's also the rumored Hungarian dub, but I've not seen anything for it beyond forum and database posts alleging its existence. For the English visuals, I used a combination of the U.S. and UK tapes. I call this a 'purist' edition because although I could potentially recreate the title card and ending credits digitally, I have elected to use the original analog sources on which they appear pillarboxed to the appropriate area relevant to the HD footage. Although DVD and Blu-ray releases of actual Studio Ghibli titles usually include the textless opening and ending footage, in the case of poor old *Nausicaä*, the credits-free opening and ending footage has not once been included on a release (so far as the Disney English version pasting its visuals over the completed Japanese titles), presumably to mitigate people like me from doing exactly what I set out to do with this reconstruction!   U.S.: Textless opening credits shots, textless end title UK: Opening text, title card, ending credits Barring a rescue of a 35mm print, ideally, a future revision would use video from one of the French tapes for the majority of the visuals:  As you can see, it's more or less 1.66:1 frameable to 1.85:1. Unfortunately, because of bad encoding and careless deinterlacing, both of my French sources have an effective resolution of 288p, half of the 576i of the original SECAM VHS tapes. For the English audio, it comes from my personal copy/capture of an ex-rental New World VHS. There's some hi-fi crackling throughout so it's not pristine. I based the sync on the UK VHS since that was from an actual print with an optical track, and used it to patch one bit in reel 6B. "Kinda scary if you sit around and think about it..." that there's never been a definitive super high bitrate or DV capture of the New World VHS or beta (with stacking! or an RF capture!) in the OriginalTrilogy-brain world. Y'all super nerds should get on that. I think it's kind of dangerous that in the public at large, it's relegated to analog, non-disc based video releases (and captures of said releases), and the odd chance a release print from its super limited theatrical run in the United States ends up in the hands of a collector. German: I noticed reel 1A through reel 2A were out of sync compared to the rest of the dub, so I properly synced those segments even though that's not how things were presented on the actual UFA VHS release. I must extend my thanks to Nausicaä superfan Kei/Nappasan for giving me a copy several years ago. French: I used the bootleg DVD of the French VHS that still has the English title card. I also have the 288p .mp4 of the *La Princesse des étoiles* version. Neither copies are ideal but it felt the DVD was better for my purposes for the time being. The Latin American dubs were provided by my friend and contact from Argentina, as well as the hi-fi capture of the Castilian Spanish dub. 1-30-89, *Guantanamo Gazette*:   **“wow so you really think it’s a good idea to burn down the Toxic Jungle? please tell me more.”**