Nausicaa.net is an English-language fan website established in 1996 to contain information discussed on the Miyazaki Mailing List and to be a general resource for information regarding

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, and related topics.

History

The site was originally named The Miyazaki Web and was hosted from 1994 on tcp.com before being moved to a dedicated host by Jeremy Blackman in 1996. Team Ghiblink, the group of volunteers who maintain the site, was formed in 1996 from people on the Miyazaki Mailing list (which was established in 1991). The site is used as a major source of Studio Ghibli information by anime news sources such as

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. It is named after one of Miyazaki's films, '' Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind''. One of the major efforts by Nausicaa.net was the creation and distribution of press kits for the ''

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'' video release and the ''

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'' theatrical release. The site also hosts a searchable archive index of the Miyazaki Mailing list. The site was hacked in October 1998 and was mostly recovered and relaunched in early 1999 through the efforts of many people who used the site as well as through backups made by early versions of

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Awards and recognition

In 1999, the '' Science Fiction Weekly'' named Nausicaa.net its "Site of the Week", stating it was "unbelievably comprehensive", "well organized", and for "anything related to Miyazaki, there's no better resource on the Web."

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, who wrote the English language script for ''

'', stated that he used Nausicaa.net when he first began working on the script, and that the site and those running it were "tremendously helpful". Nausicaa.net was named one of Intute's Best of the Web in January 2007 in the Arts & Humanities category.

References

External links

* * {{Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Internet properties established in 1994 Anime and manga websites Studio Ghibli