Other titles: Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa
Laputa The Flying Island
Year:1986
Duration: ~2h 2m
Producer: Studio Ghibli
Synonyms: Castle in the Sky
Information: anidb
Homepage: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/laputa/
Related anime at Hirvine: Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle

Studio Ghibli performs always great works. That’s exactly the reason why I watched this movie of 1986.

Introduction
An air ship flies gracely through the air when suddenly some pirates attacks them. A young girl uses the raid to her advantages and escapes. So it seems she was kidnapped. However the pirates raid isn’t a regular raid. They bash into the ship and makes their way to the girl. The girl flees and uses the window. No luck, the pirates found her and she slides away, falling into the abyss.

Somehow she swiftly floats down until a young boy of her age grabs her. Together they examines the stone, which the pirates where after and glowed during her fall. They make an unimaginable discovery as the ‘bad guys’ have done. With this discovery the orphan girl meets her destiny and descent.

So now needs to confirm their discovery but also to protect what’s meant to be protected.

Graphics
You might think a 1986 has low details, lag of smooth animation, lag of animations at all … You are wrong. You’ll see wappering banners, dresses waving in the wind, pair of hair dancing in the wind and a stunning new world. Compare the graphics with an overal moderate anime nowadays and together with the storyline you have a great movie.

Background music and sound effects
Studio Ghibli never lacked sound effects. Also this time these are from great quality. But you should hear the soundtrack! You will just buy to hear “Kimi Wo Nosete (putting on you)” and “Sheeta’s Deciscion” over and over again. The lyric of Kimi Wo Nosete can be found at Anime Lyrics together with the midi file. Even the midi is worth the listen time over time.

Summarize
If you need to summarize the movie, you definetly should include the words love, power and might. This movie is about how blind people can be searching for the ultimate power. Even if they have or find a heaven place, they won’t see it. A mass of people searching for the ultimate power and a small group protecting it from them. ‘Cause the ultimate power will destroy anything they love.

… Man I don’t want to tell much more. Just watch it yourself. Does ‘Studio Ghilbi’ mark not tell you enough?

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