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What makes a story truly epic? My own thought is that it needs a personal story of intense significance to the characters involved, set within, and interacting with, a vast backdrop of political or other world-changing events, ideally where the very nature of reality is at least part of the story, and is perhaps even changed by it.
My personal contender, though perhaps not one many will have experienced, is Miyazaki's manga of Nausicaa (rather than the film). Though I'm a bit doubtful about this as her relationship is with the world as a whole rather than any particular person.
What's yours?
What makes a story truly epic? My own thought is that it needs a personal story of intense significance to the characters involved, set within, and interacting with, a vast backdrop of political or other world-changing events, ideally where the very nature of reality is at least part of the story, and is perhaps even changed by it.
My personal contender, though perhaps not one many will have experienced, is Miyazaki's manga of Nausicaa (rather than the film). Though I'm a bit doubtful about this as her relationship is with the world as a whole rather than any particular person.
What's yours?