Castle in the Sky/Trivia

==Trivia==
*Many believe that the characters from Miyazaki's 1978 series Future Boy Conan were prototypes for the characters of Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Moreover, according to Hideaki Anno, the project was originally pitched by Miyazaki to NHK while producing Future Boy Conan. The illustration Pazu, The Child Of The Sea (海の子パズー) which was collected in Hayao Miyazaki Image Board Collection (宮崎駿イメージボード集 , November, 1983), might be part of this original plan (the illustration featured a character that looked like Pazu looking up to a girl in the water tank in a dark room).
*In the plan, the original bill was SF novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, but when making it into a film, Miyazaki might have changed it to Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels.
*In addition, Miyazaki's plot outline for Castle in the Sky was also re-imagined by Toho as a TV series. The result was Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, a 1990-91 TV series aired on NHK, made by the Gainax studio and directed by Hideaki Anno (who considers Miyazaki one of his idols after working with him prior) and Shinji Higuchi (the predecessor to the same team's hugely successful Neon Genesis Evangelion).
*It is thought by some that the setting of Castle in the Sky is possibly the same setting as another of Miyazaki's movies, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but in an earlier period of history. 
**Although it is mentioned that Castle in the Sky was originally conceived in the wake of Nausicaä's success as a possible follow-up in Viz Media's 2016 art and production book, there was much internal debate on both Animage and Mr. Miyazaki's parts as to whether or not they should indeed make it a sequel or go for something more different. It is never confirmed that the worlds are the same.
*Jamie Hewlett, the artist behind the band Gorillaz, said on a South Bank Show special about anime that he found inspiration from the film for his art.
*In the part where the robot comes back to Pazu and Sheeta with a flower for the Laputian grave marker, it shows four of the same animals - Fox Squirrels - that Nausicaä had befriended running & playing on the robot.
*The Laputian robot design originally appeared in the finale (Episode 155, Farewell, My Beloved Lupin) of the Lupin the 3rd Part II TV series. The episode aired on October 6, 1980. Originally the episode was not planned to be made after Part 2 Episode 154, however Telecom was available and Hayao Miyazaki had total creative control over the production of the episode. After completion, the episode was going to be rejected from the original broadcast as Nippon Television outright refused to accept the episode. This was due to the different style in both animation and plotline. Motoyoshi Tokunaga had to beg the network to air the episode."Part 2 Episode 155", Lupin 3rd Wiki
*The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii and GameCube home video game consoles contains several elements inspired by Laputa, including a puzzle featuring two ancient robots covered in foliage, as well as the final level featuring a sky castle.
*A rumor has persisted over the years among Japanese fans that the film has an alternate ending that was accidentally broadcast on Japanese television during one of its annual airings. This is due to screencaps showing credits super-imposed over scenes, with the conclusion reached that it shows a different ending. The rumor persists so much that Ghibli themselves debunked it in a 2002 website post.2002 post from Studio Ghibli debunking the rumor (link is in Japanese) Investigation of the screencaps shows they actually show scenes from earlier in the film: if they are legitimate, then they more likely depict an alternate edit made for shorter broadcasts, or possibly trailers.2007 forum post identifying the screencaps' sources (link is in Japanese).
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