Odd similarities '86 anime and sky - old news maybe

[Gasgul]

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Laputa: Castle in the Sky

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The second of the Miyazaki anime films, this tells the story of Sheeta, an orphan and a descendant of the people who once lived in Laputa. She is taken by the secret service, her only connection with the past a stone inscribed with a strange emblem. Pirates attack the secret service's airship and in the commotion Sheeta falls. The the stone lights up and slows her descent and she floats down into the arms of Pazu, an orphan boy. He too has an interest in Laputa and so they set off together to find the legendary floating city.

Genre: Animation
Year: 1986
Country: Japan
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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was just surfing the networks here in aus and noticed this movie on the SBS channel,

I was constantly drawing comparisons to the layout of the floating city to ffxi's sky, even down to the grounds keepers,

anyone else seen this movie?

[theo]

Floating castles is a pretty common theme in japanese games and anime anyway. Seems like theres always some sort of evil floating castle, fortress, island, airship, etc. I recall noticing some similarities as well when I watched that movie a while back, but it didn't feel like a big deal at the time.

[Kaludneisucks]

Have not seen this film, i know its supposed to be something of a classic, will take steps to remedy this sit.
SIMILAR topic, slightly related.

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi: first Ep. The 4 lynchpins of the shopping arcade ARE the four chinese skygods, but i get a kick out of the bird being a pelican.

[rezn0r]

i suddenly want to walk out of work and go home to re-play lunar 1 & 2

[Blackmagik]

i suddenly want to walk out of work and go home to re-play lunar 1 & 2

those are fun games, lol

[The Stig]

Laputa is HUGE. There are sections of the city totally submerged in water, it really is quite mysterious. In comparison I feel Sky in FFXI is quite small (and.... empty.)

Good anime/film, I highly recommend people to watch it. In Japanese preferably, the English one got destroyed by silly one liners added in places and CONSTANT music, whereas good use of silence was used in the Japanese one.

[chi]

when sky was first release, Japanese players nicknamed it Laputa.

but yes, floating castles is a common theme. Laputa... Utena. Kam'lanaut is Dios, ect.

[Gasgul]

heh good times, /wink

[Obev]

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Lies, it barely took them an hour to pop Despot.

[Ronfar]

i suddenly want to walk out of work and go home to re-play lunar 1 & 2

Best rpg's <3 them

[cassiraa]

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/570...gardien1xc.jpg

http://www.otakucity.org/IMG/cache-4...33-440x331.jpg

http://www.compagniadelgiardinaggio....i/laputa_2.jpg

http://www.compagniadelgiardinaggio....i/laputa_3.jpg

http://www.googirama.com/albums/Laputa/LAPUTA01.jpg

Flying cities are pretty common themes in a lot of anime. But there's flying cities, Then there's Flying moss covered Cermet Cities that have been uninhabited for centuries, only maintained by robot Groundskeepers until a small group of adventurers come to them to learn about a secret history.

Sorry for tables, will convert to image links at request.

FFXI needs a Squirrelfox though, like in Laputa:http://www.naucon.org/teto.jpg

[Vigilia]

Squirrelfox was in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
Speaking of which, that movie had black chocobos!

I think you could safely say all of the Miyazaki movies took common fairytale/Sci-fi/Japanese traditional themes and compiled, distilled and condensed them like Disney did to old European fairytales and Tolkien to old nordic sagas heavily influencing entire generations' perception of what fantasy lands should be like.
Wonderful stories regardless.

[Khajit]

That squirrelfox looks like carbuncle.

[Tulun]

Haha, that's awesome. SE likes to borrow things, so it's very possible.

My interest is piqued in this show.

[Valacirca]

when sky was first release, Japanese players nicknamed it Laputa.

but yes, floating castles is a common theme. Laputa... Utena. Kam'lanaut is Dios, ect.

Oh god, we need some cutscenes of Kam'lanaut riding on the hood of a car while shirtless and acting like a perv.

[tyraravenlocke]

That squirrelfox looks like carbuncle.

No? Really?

[LD]

Wasn't this figured out like 2+ years ago? Miyazaki movies are pretty popular.

[Vigilia]

Wasn't this figured out like 2+ years ago? Miyazaki movies are pretty popular.

I'm sure it was, I'm positive there was a JP sky LS called Laputa on Asura too back in 2004 or something. I remember going to sky the first time and talking about how much it's like Laputa.

[Lordwafik]

Wasn't this figured out like 2+ years ago? Miyazaki movies are pretty popular.

I'm sure it was, I'm positive there was a JP sky LS called Laputa on Asura too back in 2004 or something. I remember going to sky the first time and talking about how much it's like Laputa.

That was Donald's LS and yeah a sky shell.

[Intense]

Is Donald still around?