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My brother and I were channel surfing at a family friend's house and we came across a cartoon where a big muscley guy was being crushed in the hand of a giant ape that wore huge pointy shoulderpads, and the big muscley guy was actually bleeding and really beat up. It was DBZ (of course), and it blew our tiny minds. I couldn't have been older than ten. My brother would later buy pirated VHSes with subtitles so we could finish the drat Frieza cycle, and we made it up to the Cell Tournament. Good times. Shortly after we discovered DBZ, my brother rented a movie called Warriors of the Wind. I loved stories featuring women warriors, but this was before Mulan came out, much less movies like the Hunger Games. I hadn't discovered Tamora Pierce yet, either. So to get a movie featuring the courageous and compassionate Princess Zandra, facing off the incredibly competant if misguided Princess Kushana, was incredible. I loved that movie so much. These days I know I should look down on Warriors of the Wind as a butchered version of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, but I can't bring myself to dislike a movie that meant so much to me as a little girl. My brother actually bought the manga as it was translated into English, so I got the real thing anyway (it's still one of my favorites today). I did eventually see the uncut Nausicaa movie, but that was more than a decade after I watched Warriors of the Wind. It was a little strange (if delightful) to see all the scenes that had been cut from my beloved childhood movie. Oh yeah, and my brother brought home AKIRA when I was ten. I made it to the doll scene before bolting. Still read each volume of the manga whenever he bought the new one, though. I kind of thought of his collections of AKIRA and Nausicaa as a shared collection and bought the final volumes for each with my Bat Mitzvah money. I still have the fourth volume of Nausicaa on my shelf (he took all the other volumes with him when he went to college, the jerk).
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