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Shuna is the prince of a small village in a valley. The village isn't prosperous, the harvest isn't good, and people go hungry all the time. One day, an ill traveller, visiting the village, talks about the golden grain growing in a field to the west. Its harvests are plenty, and can feed the whole village. Despite this promise, Shuna should ''not'' travel to the field. He'll leave the safety of his village behind. In the village, he doesn't live well, but at least he still ''lives'', and the golden grain is guarded—
 
Oops. Shuna left the village insearching search offor the golden grain.
 
The journey isn't easy; it's the opposite of easy. Shuna stumbles across slave traders and bandits, and vast dunes of nothingness. Plus, his journey isn't quite over once he ''arrives'' at the rumoured field, for the place changes a person...
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* [[Artsy Moon]]: The moon is flat, more like an alien spaceship than a moon. When it sets, it deposits human bodies into a living structure that makes Shuna nervous.▼
* [[Author Appeal]]: Hints of the [[Arcadia]] lifestyle, a complex tale of man vs. nature, exploits of capitalism, strong and independent female characters, and well drawn, detailed landscapes. Almost every Miyazaki staple is in there, except the [[Cool Plane]].
* [[Because You Were Nice to Me]]: Because Shuna was nice to Thea and freed her from slavery, Thea later nursed him back to health. {{spoiler|After taking seeds from the land where the moon sets, Shuna lost his speech and wandered aimlessly until he reached Thea's village. From there, Thea slowly nursed him back to health, until he recovered his speech and intelligence.}}
* [[The Call Knowsto Where You LiveAdventure]]: The call to adventureThis is a man who journeys into Shuna's improvisedimpoverished village, with the promise of golden grain to feed everyone in the village far in the west. Thus, [[Title Drop|Shuna's Journey]] begins.
* [[Character Title]]: In ''Shuna's Journey'', Shuna goes on a journey.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Every human character you meet is either improvisedimpoverished or a slave. The gods who live where the Moon sets cultivate vast fields of grain, but demand human sacrifices for them.
* [[Eldritch LocationAbomination]]: The place where the moon sets would be this, with its [[Narnia Time]], strange inhabitants, and how it {{spoiler|takesMoon humandeposits sacrificesthe droppedhuman frombodies. aIt moon}}.immediately Ingave addition,Shuna it'san inhibiteduneasy byfeeling manywhen strangehe andset exoticfoot speciesinside, someand ofhe themran Shuna believed to be extinctout.}}
* [[Eldritch Location]]: The place where the moon sets would be this, with its [[Narnia Time]], strange inhabitants, and how it {{spoiler|takes human sacrifices dropped from a moon}}. In addition, it's inhibited by many strange and exotic species, some of them Shuna believed were extinct.
* [[Fountain of Expies]]: Instead of a single character being exported over and over again, there are multiple characters exported to separate works at [[Studio Ghibli]]. The yakul species was exported straight into Yakul in ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''. Shuna himself has traits from both [[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind|Princess Nausicaä]] and Asbel, and his journey to the west resembles Ashitaka's story in ''Princess Mononoke''. Thea resembles Therru from ''[[Tales From Earthsea]]'', her hairstyle being a particular similarity.
** The characters aren't the only things exported. Some ''locations'' were moved straight into other Ghibli productions. The farm where the golden grains grow resembles the forest in ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'' and the bottom layer of the Sea of Decay in ''[[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]]''. Shuna's village is analogous to the Valley of the Wind.
{{quote|''[Thea] is cousin to Sophie in [[Howl's Moving Castle (anime)|Howl's Moving Castle]] (2004), San in [[Princess Mononoke]] (1997), and of course [[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind|Nausicaä]].''|Alex Dudok de Wit|Note from the translator}}
* [[Human Resources]]: The gods of the golden grain farm uses captive human slaves to do ''something''. Shuna isn't sure what that ''something'' is, whether they are turned into the green monsters that farm the grain or the water that irrigates the land.
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: Shuna and Thea. Shuna rescues Thea from slavery. Thea repays the favour by nourishing Shuna back to health later on, [[Because You Were Nice to Me|because Shuna was nice to her]]. The two briefly interact, and don't exchange many lines, but their relationship has a huge impact on each other.
* [[No Export for You]]: The graphic novel was published in 1983, but despite from one of the most beloved creators in Japan, it was never exported until 2022. There is perfectly good reason to export it, to capitalise on the [[Hayao Miyazaki]] name after the success of films such as ''[[Spirited Away]]'' and ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', but that never happened. After a decade of no films from Miyazaki, the graphic novel was finally exported.
* [[Time Skip]]: After Shuna arrive in the village Thea resides in, several of these are used as he recovers.
▲* [[ArtsyWeird Moon]]: The moon is flat, more like an alien spaceship than a moon. {{spoiler|When it sets, it deposits human bodies into a living structure thatfor makesthem Shunato nervousbe used as resources}}.
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: In the land of the Gods, time passes differently, and the crops which need a year to grow are grown in a day. Plants quickly cover Shuna's gun, and he ages considerably once he leaves the place.
 
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