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Gulliver's Travels influenced 天空の城ラピュタ (Laputa: Castle in the Sky)
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The influence
Gulliver's Travels
Book · 1726
The work it shaped
天空の城ラピュタ Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Animation · 1986
The evidence
Miyazaki took the name and idea of his floating city from Swift's flying island of Laputa, and the film says so: Pazu explains that Laputa appears in Gulliver's Travels.
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