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'''''Shuna's Journey''''' (Japanese シュナの旅, Hepburn ''Shuna no Tabi'', also known as ''The Journey of Shuna'') is a one volume, six chapter [[Graphic Novel]]. The book was initially published in 1983, and an English translation by Alex Dudok de Wit became available--in the United States--in November 2022.
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 in search of the golden grain.
Oh, and the graphic novel was written and illustrated by a little known man called [[Hayao Miyazaki]]. You might know him from his obscure [[Studio Ghibli]] and films like ''[[Spirited Away]]''. What is ''Spirited Away'', you ask? Just the first and only [[Anime]], traditionally animated ''and'' foreign film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Picture. No big deal, really. ▼
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...
▲Oh, and the graphic novel was written and illustrated by a little known man called [[Hayao Miyazaki]]. You might know him from his obscure [[Studio Ghibli]] and films like ''[[Spirited Away]]''. What is ''Spirited Away'', you ask?
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