 If you liked
Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa
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 ...then you might like
Fushigi no Umi no Nadia
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Anno of Evangelion fame hit the big time in animation by quite literally knocking on Miyazaki's door and showing him his animation skills when Nausicaa's production ran out of animators. Afterwards, Anno was inspired by Miyazaki's concept for Laputa and ended up directing his own version of the story with his own studio. This is how Nadia came to be.
If Miyazaki has one weakness visible throughout his films, it's characterisation. More often than not, his imagination for story-telling leaves little room for the nitty-gritty of making his characters into relatable humans, as opposed to plot devices. Anno, on the other hand, is most famous for
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Recommended by AironicallyHuman
Many fans often compare Hayao Miyazaki's high-flying adventure tale "Castle in the Sky" to "Nadia" because it shares many similarities: girl with pendant, boy who loves to build planes, a not-so-evil group of bungling bandits, and a truly ruthless villain. The outline of the plot in both works are similar in many ways as well. Having said that, I think "Laputa" is superior to "Nadia" in terms of its overall flow. Clocking in at two hours, there's no room for the story to derail itself, it's consistently entertaining, and it moves along at a breakneck pace. Granted its characters are
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the characters are very similar plus the story as well as the plot is very alike too.
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Boy inventor meets girl with magic crystal. Both stories involve a lost kingdom. Both stories have comic relief antagonists who become allies of the protagonists. Also they're both loosely based on the novels of Jules Verne.
I believe that Miyazaki was instrumental in the original concept of Nadia and that he later reused some of the ideas in Laputa: Castle in the Sky. That was really noticable when Nadia falls from a great height and the jewel glows and stops her from crashing to the ground, just like at the start of Laputa.
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