 An agreement was reached that Miyazaki could start developing his sketches and ideas into a manga for the magazine with the proviso that it would never be made into a film.The manga—titled "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"—ran from February 1982 to March 1994.The story, as re-printed in the "tankōbon" volumes, spans seven volumes for a combined total of 1060 pages.