Hello! I follow your blog for really long now and I thought you'd be the right person to ask: when I recently watched Laputa-Castle in the sky, I noticed that the robot who lives on Laputa and cares for the plants and animals there is surrounded by little yellow cat animal things in one scene who just look like that little pet Nausicaä has (forgot it's name). Is this just a random similarity in these two films or is Laputa any kind of Spin-Off to Nausicaä (the robots also look quite similar)?
I am so sorry for the belated reply, I have been a little busy. Please forgive me :3 And you are correct, they are same creatures - fox squirrels. The one in Nausicaa is called Teto. Neither is a spin-off of the other, nor are the films related, but there’s a popular theory put forward that all of Miyazaki’s films are interconnected. If you remember, the susuwatari (soot sprites) also make an appearance in multiple films - My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away. And thank you for following and supporting my blog for so long <333 ^_^