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	Laputa
		Laputa is a fictional place from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
		Laputa is a flying island[?] or rock, that can be directed by its inhabitants in any direction.
		The people of Laputa are fond of mathematics and technology, but fail to make practical use of their knowledge.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Laputa.html (168 words)

	Laputa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laputa is a flying island or rock with an adamantine base, that can be manoeuvred by its inhabitants in any direction using magnetic levitation.
		The rebelling of Lindalino against Laputa is an allegory on Ireland's revolt against England, and England's (meaning: the Whig government's) violent foreign and internal politics (see Jonathan Swift for his political career).
		Laputa, as some of Swift's other inventions, was the inspiration and basis for several other works; this may be due to the universally appealing nature of the concept of a land floating in sky, or the popular stereotyping of intellectuals as an otherworldly culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laputa (591 words)

	Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Laputa is a pure adventure film, one with Indiana Jones style chase scenes, exotic locations, really evil bad guys bent on conquering the world, and a young heroine and hero who save the day thanks to their pure spirit and some magical powers.
		It is obvious that Miyazaki drew some of his inspiration for Laputa from the tv series Future Boy Conan that he did for the Japanese network NHK in 1978.
		The Laputa story outline was echoed three years later with the premiere of the tv anime series Nadia, another series about an orphan girl with a magical gemstone who is also searching for the secrets of her origin.
	utd500.utdallas.edu /~hairston/laputa.html (632 words)

	AAW: Laputa: Castle in the Sky Quick Review
		Laputa is an original story written by Miyazaki for this film; a novel version was later written, and included Miyazaki illustrations.
		The parallel is appropriate, except for the fact that Laputa is a crude epithet in Spanish, a fact Swift was aware of when he named his island but Miyazaki was not.
		Laputa: Castle in the Sky is Copyright ©1986 Nibariki - Tokuma Shoten.
	animeworld.com /quicklooks/laputa.html (689 words)

	Laputa Review Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Laputa is just one more example of the master at work.
		Laputa (Castle in the Sky) is a story about two orphaned kids about age 12.
		Laputa has the best music of all the Miyazaki/Ghibli films I have seen so far.
	members.tripod.com /~drseid/laputa.html (619 words)

	Animetric.com >> Anime Reviews >> Laputa: Castle in the Sky
		A young girl named Sheeta holds what seems to be the key to Laputa in the form of a mysterious pendant she wears around her neck.
		Laputa is mainly about Sheeta, a young girl who's being pursued by pirates and government troops alike.
		Laputa is not only an adventure, but also a coming-of-age story which expounds on the simplicity, innocence, and purity of young love.
	www.animetric.com /klm2/laputa.html (531 words)

	Tenku no Shiro Laputa
		Sheeta (the girl) reveals that the stone is the key to Laputa, a floating castle that once held dominion over the earth.
		She comes from one branch of the former royal family that left Laputa on purpose.
		Laputa was dropped because, in spanish, La Puta is a pretty bad thing to say.
	www.theroseking.net /animehub/laputa.shtml (319 words)

	Japanese Movie Review \| Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) Hayao Miyazaki
		"Laputa" tells the story of a boy named Pazu (voiced by James Van Der Beek), who is growing up in a mining town when one day a young girl named Sheeta (Anna Paquin, "Darkness") literally drops from the sky.
		The world of "Laputa" is set somewhere around the start of the twentieth century, with telegraphs and ancient motorcars running alongside those wonderfully impossible flying machines.
		But it is the city of Laputa itself that is sheer brilliance in execution; Laputa is both the Garden of Eden and the Fire of Heaven, and in that juxtaposition lies its appeal, its power, and its danger.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/laputa.htm (907 words)

	Laputa: The Castle in the Sky // Nausicaa.net
		Laputa: The Castle in the Sky // Nausicaa.net
		He helps the girl, Sheeta, to escape from the air pirates and the military who are obsessed with Laputa, a legendary kingdom on a floating island in the sky with which Sheeta is suspected of being connected.
		Disney is set to bring this film to the United States and to the rest of the world with a soundtrack freshly rescored by Joe Hisaishi, who composed the original, and performed by a full symphony orchestra.
	www.nausicaa.net /miyazaki/laputa (147 words)

	Laputa: Castle in the Sky
		Laputa is not one of his first films--it was released in 1986 in Japan--but it came before My Neighbor Totoro, which really got notice both in Japan and in the US.
		Of course, Dora, the mama and leader of the pirate gang, wants to get there herself, but she might have to work with the two friends if they are going to survive the attacks of the army that wants to claim Laputa for their own.
		Laputa is an action film in the vein of the Indiana Jones films, and though it exists in a late 1900s "alternate world," it is something that the viewer can really get into.
	www.theanimereview.com /reviews/laputa.html (521 words)

	Absolute Anime / Laputa: Castle in the Sky
		Loosely based on the mining towns of Wales and the flying island of Laputa found in Gulliver's Travels, it revolves around a young girl named Sheeta who carries a valuable posession; the secret to Laputa.
		Laputa is a island which floats through the sky.
		He is searching for Laputa as well to prove his father, a former airship captain, was not insane when he saw a flying island during a storm.
	www.absoluteanime.com /laputa/index.htm (218 words)

	Story // Laputa: The Castle in the Sky // Nausicaa.net
		Uncle Pom says that only the people of Laputa knew how to create such crystals, and in doing so were able to construct a huge floating island in the sky.
		He shows Sheeta that the marking on her levitation stone and the one on the robot are the same, and says that the stone, once activated, will show the way to Laputa.
		Muska discloses that her real name, Lusheeta Toel-ul Laputa, indicates that she is the true heir to the throne of Laputa, and threatens that Pazu's fate is in her hands.
	www.nausicaa.net /miyazaki/laputa/synopsis (1898 words)

	Laputa Castle in the Sky -- Characters
		When she was very young, her parents died, leaving her in the care of her Grandmother, who probably died shortly before the movie began.
		Because of his father's discovery, Pazu was determined to find Laputa, so that he can prove to everyone his father was telling the truth.
		She was the one who taught Sheeta the spell to awaken the robots, and the destruction spell to destroy Laputa.
	www.wingsee.com /ghibli/laputa/characters.html (478 words)

	New Generation Speedy Anime Extreme - Laputa, The Castle in the Sky Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The reason she is seized is because of the magical stone that has been passed through the ages to her.
		This stone is the key to the castle in the sky, Laputa.
		Laputa, the castle in the sky, is a masterpiece and can be seen as a symbol for Anime itself.
	www.geocities.com /speedyanime/anime/laputa/laputa.html (169 words)

	Anime Haevan-->Anime-->Laputa, Castle in the Sky
		Pazu is about 14 and lives to find Laputa by flying there.(see Pazu's father) He tends to be happy-go-lucky and works as an assistant to the cheif engineer.
		He took a picture of Laputa once but when he returned home he was ridiculed because everyone thought that he faked the piture.
		Mushka now knows where Laputa is because of the light blue beam that came from Sheeta's pendant that pointed toward Laputa, he also found the levitation stone that Sheeta dropped.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/AnimeHaevan/laputa.html (621 words)

	Laputa: The Castle In The Sky Original Soundtrack : SoundtrackCentral.com
		Laputa: The Castle In The Sky was their second collaboration, and one of the most beloved scores to Miyazaki fans.
		Laputa: The Castle In The Sky also contains probably one of the most beloved songs from Miyazaki's movies, "Carrying You", a romantic, luscious translation of the main theme of Laputa turned into a song.
		In the meantime, though, I suggest you purchase the original soundtrack album of Laputa: The Castle In The Sky, as it is currently the only version of the music of Laputa available.
	www.altpop.com /stc/reviews/laputaost.htm (1217 words)

	Castle in the Sky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One city, Laputa, is said to remain in the sky, concealed within the swirling clouds of a violent thunderstorm known as the Dragon's Nest.
		In discussions between the general in command of the fortress and Muska it becomes clear that the government is sponsoring a concerted search for Laputa, and that Sheeta and her crystal are believed to be the keys to its discovery.
		Muska attempts to gain Sheeta's trust and co-operation by showing her the remains of a giant Laputan robot-man that are kept in a locked room beneath the fortress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky (3943 words)

	++ Anime Otaku Fridge :::: Laputa: Castle in the Sky ++
		Because the true heir to Laputa is found, they must go to the legendary kingdom with its fate in their hands.
		His second movie, Laputa: Castle in the Sky took a step further than Nausicaa by centering the story around two children running from pirates, the government and the rest of the world.
		A powerful ending in which you realize just what the floating island of Laputa really is and why it was lost to the world.
	www.otakufridge.com /html_anime/anime_laputa.shtml (541 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Laputa, Castle in the Sky
		Laputa, Castle in the Sky opens with a sad little girl (she seems to be the prisoner of some sinister-looking men) on an airship flying thousands of feet in the air.
		It turns out that Sheeta is a princess of the lost flying city Laputa, and that her pendant is the key to finding the the city.
		Pazu, whose father was the only man known to have seen the lost city, dedicates himself to finding Laputa and returning Sheeta to her birthright.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/laputa.html (1062 words)

	Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Tenku no shiro Rapyuta)
		The moments of gentle humor are pleasantly funny and the scenes showing the shy growth of affection between the Sheeta and Pazu are sensitively and subtly handled.
		The flying vessels are the lumpy, fanciful monstrosities found in several of the director's works, and the town in which Pazu lives, with its deep ravines, houses built into sheer cliff walls, and cobweb of railway bridges, is a fabulous delight.
		Adorned with a vast garden under a transparent dome, an ornate city that rises in spires and descends into deep pools inhabited by mechanical fish, and a colossal tree whose roots penetrate the whole of the island, Laputa is a place of sheer fantasy.
	www.movierapture.com /laputa.htm (531 words)

	AnimeOnDVD.com >> Disc Reviews >> Laputa: Castle in the Sky
		Laputa comes in a single amaray case that has a flapper inside for a second DVD.
		Laputa opens up with the type of scene that Miyazaki is known for, an air scene.
		Laputa was the last of Miyazaki's films that I?ve watched that began when I learned of him after seeing Mononoke Hime.
	www.animeondvd.com /reviews2/disc_reviews/1896.php (1069 words)

	Jonathan Swift's Voyage to Laputa (Draft Lecture) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Jonathan Swift's Voyage to Laputa April 7, 1998 Russell McNeil Of the four parts of Gulliver's Travels, the third, the Voyage to Laputa, is for many the least satisfying and least understood.
		The word Laputa is derived -- as out text reminds us in a footnote on p.135 -- from the Spanish La Puta -- the whore.
		Whatever the validity of the criticisms of the Voyage to Laputa, its lack of unity, and multiplicity of themes, this adventure does paint a picture of an age which although optimistic and heady over its recent achievements, is clearly anxious about the future.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/lec/lecswiftlap.htm (2393 words)

	Laputa Reviews at Animelab.com
		First of all, I LOVE Miyazaki films and I was thrilled to finally see, "Laputa: The Castle in the Sky".
		The structure is called "Laputa" which many people think is just a myth, but Pazu is determined to prove the people wrong.
		Anyways, Musca talks to Sheeta about Laputa and how her necklace is the key to finding it.
	www.animelab.com /anime.manga/reviews/Laputa (497 words)

	Tenku No Shiro Laputa Review Page
		The young girl had been captured by the Secret Service, and escaped from her cell onboard flying fortress during a pirate raid, only to fall towards the Earth...
		Many people have commented that Laputa is their favourite movie, but from a pure technical standpoint, I feel that there is no basis for this opinion.
		Technical arguments be damned -- Laputa communicates at the deepest, personal level in an openly honest and vulnerable manner.
	www.abcb.com /laputa/index.htm (854 words)

	Laputa
		Well, 16 yrs later the animation probably doesn't look quite up to par with the likes of new anime, but story and music wise Laputa can still compete with the big boys of the new age anime.
		Storywise, there's a floating island (Laputa) hidden in the sky with technology that surpasses the 'land dwellers'.
		Various factions (pirates/governments etc.) are after the island for their own purposes (money/power etc.) and the key to reaching the island is through one of Laputa's last living inhabitants, Sheeta, who has no idea about her heritage.
	www.users.on.net /~monkeyd/reviews/Laputa.htm (169 words)

	Laputan Logic - Laputa
		Every one knew how laborious the usual Method is of attaining to Arts and Sciences; whereas by his Contrivance, the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks and Theology, without the least Assistance from Genius or Study.
		The word, which I interpret the Flying or Floating Island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology.
		I ventured to offer to the learned among them a conjecture of my own, that Laputa was quasi lap outed; lap signifying properly the dancing of the sunbeams in the sea, and outed, a wing, which however I shall not obtrude, but submit to the judicious reader.
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2002/11/03-84156025.html (551 words)

	A Screen Near You » Blog Archive » Laputa
		There is always one that I vaguely remember and ask people about, it featured a flying city hidden in the eye of the hurricane, which lay dormant but had lots of robots that came to life when the protagonists (a boy and girl) find it.
		The film follows Pazu and Sheeta, two children who are thrown together when Sheeta falls from an airship in which she is being held prisoner by government agents when sky pirates raid them looking to steal Sheeta’s pendant, which has special powers.
		The government, it transpires, is also looking for the legendary Laputa and the race is on to get there first.
	www.ascreennearyou.co.uk /2006/06/24/laputa (437 words)

	Nadia and Laputa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Both girls have a valuable gemstone that they wear, Sheeta's is a family hierloom, Nadia's is the Blue Water which is the only possession she had when she was discovered as foundling.
		For Sheeta it is the mysterious floating castle in the sky, Laputa.
		And most of the elements of both stories (an orphan searching for her origins, a heroine chased by bad guys, the offer and rejection of worldly powers) are hardly original.
	utd500.utdallas.edu /~hairston/nadialaputa.html (625 words)

	Laputa: Castle in the Sky
		Taking her to his house he soon learns that Sheeta holds the key to the ancient city of Laputa, the flying fortress that his father died pursuing.
		Laputa is one of those few films that grabs you by the shirt collar from the opening minute and refuses to let go until the credits stop scrolling.
		Laputa is so right on so many levels, you'd think that I'd consider it among the very best anime ever produced.
	www.animeacademy.com /finalrevdisplay.php?id=288 (653 words)

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