So this is news to me - Lupin episode 155, directed by Hayao Miyazaki gives us the origin or prototype inspiration for the Laputian robots from ‘Castle in the Sky’.
Here we see the man responsible for creating the robots, who would unfortunately lose his creation to the military industrial complex...
Now if that isn’t enough to have piqued your curiosity, the creator’s daughter is none other than Nausicaa, now piloting one of the robots and using it to commit robberies for Lupin and crew or so it seems...
Additionally, Inspector Zenigata pulls of his own old school version of Kaneda’s bike slide:
There are some killer copter designs tracking the Laputian robot that really caught my eye:
Managed to find an animation cel from the episode here as well:
All in all, super stoked to still be running across Miyazaki work that until recently I was totally unaware even existed (possibly will do a post on episode 145 if I can find some more time). Still always putting the storyboard films up in the background while working to just drool over the way he puts story to paper...
