Nadia

I just rewatched Castle in the Sky and I still can't decide if it's better than Nadia in the end.
Both are extremely similar in their themes and tropes, and both are good (aside from Nadia's Africa arc).

>>152606717
What do you think about Conan?

>>152606781
Never seen it, it's been sitting in my backlog. Is it worth watching? I really like the "kids going on an adventure to find the remnants of an ancient civilization" theme.

>>152606851
Yeah, it's an even earlier iteration of the Laputa/Nadia story. It's okay, but not as good as either of the other two and the most different of the three (it's loosely based on a book).

>>152606937
>not as good
I'll watch it anyway, but why?

>>152606717
>Africa arc
Man, that was the only really bad part.

>>152606851
This reminds me, I found the backstory to be kinda similar to Fullmetal Alchemist, mostly because of the function of the Blue Water/Philosophers stone and then the whole ancient civilization thing too, which made me wonder if they both draw from the same source earlier source, or if Fullmetal took from Nadia.
I couldn't find any connection between the two when I searched it though.

>>152607033
The scope is a lot smaller, for one, and it's less "mystical ancient civilization", and more post-apocalypse. You'll be able to tell it's an earlier attempt of some of the events you see in Laputa, Nadia or even Nausicaa. It's not bad, it's just prototypical.

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Its Anno's best direction imo. It was early career before he injected meaningless imagery and symbolism whenever portraying something poignant.
Haven't watched Shin Godzilla and Love&Pop yet but he does it pretty much everywhere else even Karekano.
I still enjoy his work dont get me wrong, but pic related is my favorite scene from him ever.

>>152607397
Shin is very fast paced, so if you've ever seen his Cutie Honey film, it's like that but more serious. Just a little more serious.

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>>152606583
It certainly had some amazing assets.

>>152607508
Thanks for letting me know. Even more hyped now.

>>152607397
What scene is this from?

>>152608909
When that crew member bit the dust.

>>152608980
Oh. Why Anno create these characters for literally one epsiode and kill them off? He didn't even exist before the episode of his death.

He did the same thing with that guy in Gunbuster. Toren Smith or whatever.

>>152609148
They were proto Kaworu characters.
But the death in >>152607397 is pretty hard hitting. Its the first horrific moment for the innocent, naive main characters and its presented at first like some sort of noble moment till the crew member starts losing it in spectacularly blood curdling fashion.

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>>152606937
Actually, Nadia's outline predates both Laputa and Conan.
Miyazaki actually wrote the idea of two orphans ending up on the Nautilus and going on adventures around the world with Captain Nemo in the early 70s.
The TV studio he was working for at the time(I want to say Toei, but I'm not 100% sure) didn't think it was worth anything and so tossed it on a shelf.
Miyazaki left that studio and went to Nippon Animation. He tried to get his Nadia story from the old studio but they told him to shove it, so he adapted it into a new story about two orphans going on adventures around the world, this time with more airships. That was Conan.
He took his idea of a magical blue crystal necklace being the key to an ancient civilization when he made his movie about the flying whore. I mean Laputa.
NHK eventually get get a hold of the Nadia concept, but Miyazaki wasn't interested in working on it anymore and they shopped it around to various animation studios.
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto led the Gainax pitch for it and was originally slated to direct the whole thing. But he gave up after one episode and handed the reins off to Anno and the rest is history.

>>152609536
Yeah, it was probably Toei.

>>152607781
She's in her early teens.

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>>152609627
She's 14 when the series begins and turns 15 before the end. Perfect breeding stock age.

>>152609627
I fail to see the issue.

>>152607781
>dat fucking nipple slip

every time

>>152609706
Damn that's some insane resolution stitch

>>152610393
Explain that term to me please

t. lazy layman

>>152610656
What?

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>>152610656
You mean "stitch"?
In this case it just means an image made by "stitching" together multiple screenshots to form a single image.
>>152607781 is an example of a computer-generated stitch that takes a shot every frame and melds them together to form one image.
>>152609706 and this are hand-made in that they were manually captured images put together in Photoshop and manually blended together to hide the seams.

>>152610932
Please continue educating. With more stiches of Nadia.

>>152610932
It's funny because looking at the borders here >>152607781 you can definitely see how the studio focused on Nadia's thighs.

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>>152611005
I lost most of mine in a hard drive failure. I've only remade a few since.

>>152606583

Loved the series.

My favorite part was where Jean sings this "love" song to Nadia. It starts out nice enough, then just keeps going...and going, and then he starts insulting her it, and it still keeps going, and going. Everyone's reaction to it is awesome.

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>>152610312

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No wonder she grew up to do what she did

>>152611082
Nadia was and remained a petty bitch though.
All the other female characters were better.

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>>152609627
That's certainly gonna stop me.

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>>152611197
She does grow up and change significantly throughout the series.
Still, canonically worst girl.

>>152611227
The extras were great.

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Seriously though, how does a orphan circus slave even grow to be as spoiled as her?

>>152611227
Who voted for Nadia?

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>>152611315

>>152611383
Then who did Jean vote for?

>>152611428
Electra

>>152611283
Maybe she was the star attraction or something.

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>>152611539

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>>152611283
She grew up into a teenage girl. She's not any more stuck up than a typical teenage vegetarian.

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>>152611570
One fine attraction indeed

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>>152611200
Good fucking god.

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>>152611595
>Electra
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_complex
Is Nadia true deep?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVzkqQMatok

>>152611637
What was their marketing, 'come see our delicious brown teen'?

>>152612066
To be fair Nadia probably introduced a bunch of kids to their first chocolate waifu.

>>152612066
It was the late 1800's if you go by other circuses of the time it's very likely that that was part of their marketing.

>>152611595
>>152611690

Wouldn't her fetus have been killed by those shocks?

>>152612446
I assumed she only got impregnated like the night before or something.

>>152612206
This is too lewd and she's fully clothed. Send help.

>>152612446
Pffft, it takes far more than that to fuck up Nemo's kid.

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Which Nadia do you want?

>>152612575
foreverial tiedup

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>>152612575
Second, third and fifth thanks.

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>>152612575
Naked Nadia

>>152612748
But they all look the same naked.

Now onto Melody of Oblivion.

>produced by Gainax
>animated by JC staff
What does that even mean?

Is the movie actually worth watching? I remember dropping that shit hard after it wasted the first half hour doing a goddamn recap of the whole series, looking worse than even the most rushed episodes in the series

>>152613622
It means it's a Utena clone.

>>152614047
No. No it's not.
It's worse than the Africa Arc.

>>152609706
>>152610245
>>152611200
Not when the FBI traces your IPs and knocks on your doors.

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>>152614222
>FBI
>wasting time with cartoons
America ain't some third world shithole like Australia that's banned lolis.
Of course, if Trump gets impeached and Mike Pence takes over, it might happen.

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>>152606583
I've been seeing more Nadia threads ever since Mother's Basemen brought it o light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izw22kGVGzc&t=925s

>>152614222
>I'm afraid we have to take you in, that drawing was under aged
I'm glad we live in reasonable times

>>152609627
grass on the field

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>>152614047
>the movie actually worth watching?

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>>152614047
why
why did you remind us??

>>152614149
That sounds great

>>152607213
so any thoughts on this?

>>152616674
nadia is ok. it has a style that people remember fondly; i'll still listen to the OP and ED on occasion. but it had some shitty animation direction(budget cuts) and hang time that seemed pointless. should have had more sub battles

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>>152617308
>shitty animation direction
Only in the parts not directed by Gainax. Which were the Island/Africa arcs.

>>152618224
I liked the part on the island when she was showing off the inventions in the dream.