Miyazaki had intended to make Yara more pulpy than his other female characters, a feature of sketches of her created between 1980 and 1982.
Helen McCarthy considers Shuna from Journey of Shuna to be prototypical to Nausicaä,[REF] and Dani Cavallaro feels Lana from Future Boy Conan and Clarisse of Castle of Cagliostro are also prototypical to Nausicaä [REF].