FIRST TIME WATCHING: *CASTLE IN THE SKY* (1986) REACTION

Here is my reaction to Studio Ghibli's second animated film, the 1986 adventure fantasy *Laputa Castle in the Sky* (天空の城ラピュタ)
First time watching Laputa Castle in the Sky (1986) Reaction.
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
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Reaction: 01:25
Review: 47:03
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[@Pip8448]

35:53 See this guy right here? This is the inspiration for Iron Golems in Minecraft. That's why they will drop flowers and not just iron if you kill them. This is why Iron Golems are my favorite mob in Minecraft as they slowly toddle back and forth on the same routes around a village protecting everyone.

[@ronaldmcdonald6554]

I never made that connection, but now it makes so much sense, thank you so much lol

[@yamikage8826]

Muska (Main Villian) is voiced by Mark Hamill

[@OTAKING_University]

That's right👍 Ghibli's movies have great pictures and music!

[@ghost_boy2581]

This movie has so many amazing characters and such a beautiful story😍

[@OTAKING_University]

This is one of the best Ghibli movies to watch!

[@clarefox9644]

My favorite ghibli movie❤ i had the dvd as a kid

[@freethinker--]

Mine too,I have a robot head plant pot,on Amazon shipped from Japan,it was a rare find.

[@OTAKING_University]

@@freethinker-- I want one too! I wonder if it's still for sale.

[@OTAKING_University]

It's one of my favorite Ghibli movies too. Laputa is modeled after the Welsh region of England!

[@ChimkenRiceNuggy]

The music, and the intro animation is just masterpiece.

[@OTAKING_University]

Ghibli's movies have great pictures and music!

[@daniilmedvedev3647]

Thank you, Mr Joe, for reacting to my favourite Ghibli film 😊

[@Turnajon]

There's nothing wrong with watching the dubs of any of Miyazaki's movies. All of them are top notch. This is no exception. In fact, it's a fave of mine. I DID see the subbed version once, and though I liked it then, I prefer the dub, mainly because of the performances, but the rescored music by Joe Hisaishi himself (approved by Miyazaki) really adds to the picture.

[@rabid_si]

The rescore isn't bad, but I'm not a fan when put beside the original score. It loses a lot of the moments where silence is used to build tension or loneliness or a piece of orchestration highlights something else where the rescore just loses the musical cue in a sea of other cues.. The rescore is approved but is still very much a compromise as this was something requested by Disney to match "there should almost always be orchestration happening" Disney sensibilities. It's telling that outside of a few very early Disney releases of Ghibli works, changes are basically non-existent.

[@chaoscommentary2179]

I must have had a different version when i was a kid cus there is dialogue missing i remember 8.40 the close up of the pirates shirt exploding i remember someone saying “ now ladies and gentlemen keep your eyes on the buttons” or when the car is on the railroad track after he says “id like to be in the car now mother” he then say “scary ride” or the ending “its a big stone” in my version after that someone says “ yes i can see that num skull but whats it doing thats my question” then dola says “that tree is getting away with our treasure”

[@Pip8448]

"I'd like to be in the car now mother" Definitely was said.

[@SkyForgeVideos]

Best movie of all time. Flawless symbolic allegory.

[@OTAKING_University]

Ghibli's movies have great pictures and music! Laputa is modeled after the Welsh region of England!

[@NT-zf8dx]

日本語版ではBGMの無い印象深いシーンでBGMが足されてるシーンが少なくないな 文化的な違いなのか、あるいは翻訳家が変な事をしてるのか

[@ムスカ大佐-i7q]

欧米文化は沈黙を嫌うようですね。

[@naobiik166]

日本版と音楽が違う場面がある

[@影武者-w3x]

全然違うよね

[@コーチ-p5g]

有名な話ですが、ハリウッド映画に慣れたアメリカ人は劇中曲の流れない無音に耐えられないそうで、フランス映画や日本のアニメ映画の静けさはマイナス評価になるのたそう。そのためアメリカ国内での配給ではほぼ全てのシーンで余計な音楽が付け足されています

[@Soldier_III]

音楽に緩急のないジブリ映画はジブリではないね

[@eptech3486]

だけど声優陣に違和感は無い、英語版も良いかも。ムスカがちょっと悪役さがない声かな?

[@Yngvarfo]

Small note. The floating island of Laputa is actually one of the journeys of Gulliver, from Jonathan Swift's book. Pop culture mostly focuses on his journey to Lulliput, the land of the tiny people, but there are four journeys in all. Laputa was inhabited by people so engrossed in their own thoughts that they barely sensed the outside.

[@OTAKING_University]

Laputa is modeled after the Welsh region of England!

[@skymods777E]

The film's unsung protagonist is Captain Dora, an all-around female pirate. According to Hayao Miyazaki, she is the future version of Sheeta. The proof is the young portrait of Dora on the left at around 27:50 in your video. In terms of character development, Dora can be said to be the person after Nausicaa grows up to become Kushana.

[@scarlet8017]

I would like you to watch the Japanese version by all means. I would appreciate it if you could understand the skills of voice actors from over 30 years ago. (｀･ω･´)ゞ

[@larasemerad2605]

Wild, Mark Hamill does the bad guy trying to get the power of the Castle.

[@tytaylor1461]

I love Castle in the sky, one of the greatest anime movies of all time. Can you react to Children who chase lost voices, please.

[@OTAKING_University]

Ghibli's movies have great pictures and music! It's one of my favorite Ghibli movies too.

[@かきぴ-u6l]

It's so crazy that this is an anime from 38 years ago.

[@Junya1313]

BGMが改変されてて、鉱山の静けさもクソもなくリスペクトが感じられないな やはりオリジナルしか勝たん

[@paandock]

Muska was immediately blinded by the stone when they used the spell, so even if he survived and was stuck, he wouldn't be able to see anything at all.

[@OTAKING_University]

That's right!

[@vjpearce]

I had to get my eldest Nephew the original 1986 English dub on DVD for Christmas a few years back as Sheeta's constantly changing accent in the Disney dub drove him up the wall. Also on a flight, I saw a cloud formation that looked like the one Laputa was hiding in. I looked at my mum as we were both like "Laputa's over there!" It was not the best thing to say when on a plane full of Spanish people. We had a few looks over our way after that XD Also, It might not be classed as a "Ghibli" movie, but you need to see Miyazaki's first ever movie Castle of Cagliostro

[@jeankennedy5445]

The ending reminded me of the end of Silent Running. Such a great film.

[@OTAKING_University]

Ghibli's movies have great pictures and music!

[@アンジェラアンジェラ-i3h]

日本語版を見てほしい

[@vicegamer6944]

After hearing the original music for 44:20 it was beautiful. I sure wish they’d left that in there

[@OTAKING_University]

Ghibli's movies have great pictures and music!

[@lynxvex]

The sub version is far superior, especially since this new (Americanized) version also added music to scenes that didn't need them originally.

[@anpanmanmiru]

And too many lines were changed in translation, too.

[@WesMinhOmura]

I feel like they did a good job of using Joe Hisaishi to re-compose the score though. I remember the original dub of Kiki didn't even use some Hisaishi themes. I personally don't mind the added music because it allows me to enjoy more of the talented Hisaishi since so many of the other Ghibli films have drawn out scores. Sometimes I feel like the silence in the original was a bit too much. But I do think they needed to be more cautious with the casting lol.

[@rabid_si]

@@WesMinhOmura It isn't just added music, the entire score is redone. However, here's the rub. Aside from the fact that silence is used well in the original score (not everything needs to be scored constantly) and the fact that I personally don't think the rescored music is "bad" perse... it is very bland. The melodies remain (for the most part) intact but a lot of the interesting orchestration loses the score a lot of character. This is particularly obvious in the span that runs from the final descent through the dragon's nest to Laputa to the finale. The dragon's nest theme is pretty iconic and is completely gutted and replaced by a really generic orchestrated piece with no relation to the original piece. A lot of the Laputa specific pieces are heavy on the synth in the original score, which really adds to the character of Laputa as an alien and otherworldly place which gets contrasted by being pared right back to very simple piano and vocal choruses when dealing with its ruin and fall. In the rescore it's all just sweeping orchestral compositions, no real texture or character at all. There are several moments where the soundtrack (and at one point in the cloud entry sequence, pretty much ALL sound) just gets dropped out completely because Hisashi (and the sound designers) know how to use silence to enhance eeriness, or the loneliness of a dead city etc. One of my favourite parts of the original score is literally the fact that when they finally land, and the clouds roll back to reveal Laputa, the score is going from literal silence, to slowly building tension on lonely strings, to the swelling of the orchestra. It's a beautiful and emotional moment hamstrung by the rescores inability to just... not be there for more than a minute or two. Anyway, yeah. A lot of people will decry criticism of the rescore as nostalgia and purist contrarianism, but there's a lot of really good points to the criticism if you actually put the two side by side, even if YMMV. I can completely understand why people who (like me) grew up with the original iteration feel kinda tilted by the way the new score takes liberties with the tone of the movie.

[@OTAKING_University]

Ghibli's movies have great pictures and music!

[@Labarbieladior]

Love love love this movie!!!!! It’s also the overall inspiration for the very popular anime one piece which is why it’s my favorite movie ever, cause it inspired many many anime’s after this ! Oda the creator has stated castle in the sky was one of his favorite movies growing up as a child + there’s so many stuff from castle in the sky movie that looks like stuff from one piece like the black floating squares in the bottom part of the castle look exactly like the ponygylphs from one piece

[@OTAKING_University]

It's one of my favorite Ghibli movies too. Laputa is modeled after the Welsh region of England!

[@siggemushu]

I hope you keep reacting to all the studio Ghibli movies 🤩

[@stijnjanssens571]

this movie is amazing, it was my first experience of anime or just Japanese media.. but this is the first time I hear the english dub and sadly enough they didn't do it justice edit: the reason the pirate guys like her is because they are prakticly chileren, they've probs never interacted with a woman appart from their mom (also in the japanese version it's more just that they find her cute, but it doesn't come over in a pedo way as much xD)

[@ravenm6443]

I watch dub because I’m dyslexic and reading subtitles is difficult because they’re too fast. I have to focus really hard on the subs, but then it takes me out of the film. Even then, I will still miss much of the subs and have to constantly rewind or pause a ton. I wish more people would acknowledge that dub can make anime more accessible. I prefer the dub before they cut dialogue. I get why they did it, but I feel like it took away, mainly from Dola, character. This is absolutely one of my favorite Ghibli films, and so when I saw it in our cinema a few years ago, I was gutted. I know nearly every line in this film so I definitely noticed. Same thing goes with Kiki.

[@ravenm6443]

I should add, the things that were taken out are probably minor, it’s more that I’ve seen the other version sooo many times that I noticed and it feels like it took away from the film.

[@mrsfahrenheit]

@@ravenm6443wait I am confused why were things taken out and what things were taken out?

[@Turnajon]

@@mrsfahrenheit Most of these were mostly throwaway lines, like Dola and her pirates having a bit more back-and-forth, Sheeta practicing to talk like a pirate ("Arrgh! Shiver me timbers" to which Dola replies, "Keep practicing.") I personally thought all these were hilarious and added to their characters. But many, many purists didn't feel the same way. They saw it as a case of "disrespecting Miyazaki's use of silence." I don't really agree with that, as I felt they added to the joy of the films, but probably because of this they were dialed out. Only lines I agree with being taken out are the ones in which Pazu and Sheeta comment on the obvious, but otherwise I loved a lot of those extra lines and I'd gladly have them back. The rerecorded score by Joe Hisaishi (which at least survived) is a bonus as well. I've always considered CASTLE IN THE SKY an excellent and frankly, underrated dub and I still do. It doesn't have to be a 1:1 copy to be enjoyable in its own right, and it still does tell the same story. Plus Miyazaki and Ghibli signed off on it, so as far as I'm concerned, claims that the dub is "unlistenable" or "insulting Miyazaki" just fall flat. Now if it were like WARRIORS OF THE WIND, on the other hand, the criticisms may be understandable, especially if it involved cutting footage, but Disney never did that.

[@artthounasty5877]

The boy's name is Pazu, they just pronounce it weird in the dub xD

[@henryrozelaar3887]

dude no way is that a glep plush? I didn't know they made those that's so cool

[@kendalllitzsinger1559]

luke i'm your father...oh the irony

[@AbayBentin]

18:34 He already comments about the dub.

[@tjjordan4207]

Studio Ghibli has been great with the dubs, so there’s no worry there. With the help of Disney, they managed to cast Patrick Stewart, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale, and among others to voice some of the characters when they were expanding their films to America.

[@sleeping_eu]

パズー以外のキャスティングはかなり良いな。 パズーが声変わりしていたらシータにもっと性的な興味と理性の鬩ぎ合いを描くはずなんだよ。 宮崎駿はそういう野暮ったいことをしたくなかったからオリジナルの日本語のパズーは声変わり前の男子の設定にしたんだと思うんだよね。

[@EugeniaAlcaide]

We're going on a rocket ship 36:44

[@lightawake]

'Studio Ghibli' in Japanese, is pronounced with a soft 'g', like in 'giraffe' - jib-lee. They got the arabic pronunciation wrong when they wrote the phonetics out in Japanese so the company name has never changed. FYI - as a bilingual, Laputa is one of the few Ghibli films which is dubbed very badly - they change some of the script regularly and even mash up the music score in the english version, giving a very different tone and atmosphere to key scenes of the original. They didn't do the film any justice with most of the voice actors either - it sounds so amateur and badly written that I can't sit through the whole english version. I highly recommend watching the subbed version for this Ghibli one (FYI subbed versions generally tend to respect the original better with any film).

[@EugeniaAlcaide]

We're going on a rocket ship 15:38

[@Lambongrass]

Guys vote for your name here

[@charliereedie6803]

they edited out a ton of dialogue in this version

[@eptech3486]

Ｉthink this is the best movie in miyazaki films．

[@EugeniaAlcaide]

36:44 Crane Truck

[@ねこ-m3]

煙幕で消えるのが好き。

[@Alexia.2001]

You should do ponyo next 🙂

[@daniilmedvedev3647]

I think he's doing the Ghibli films in order. Next one should be Grave of the Fireflies.

[@teddybear2418]

For once in my life, I am so happy I got the french dub for this movie.

[@OTAKING_University]

Ghibli's movies have great pictures and music!

[@aidananimation123]

My god the English dub is horrendous first time I heard it 😅

[@TowTruckAndTractor]

36:44 Matthew chapter 27

[@freethinker--]

Brilliant film,but your listening to the worst dub,this is the new English dub, original dub is far better and the original Japanese dub is recommended. Can't compare this film to any rubbish 80s Disney,

[@AbayBentin]

They probably need to make the new third English dub that is more faithful to original unlike the previous two dubs (the first English dub probably had the voice acting not so faithful to original, while the Disney's one had too unfaithful translation). And I'm saying it as the one who doesn't mind the "the world cannot live without love" alteration.

[@EugeniaAlcaide]

21:34 zoom

[@EugeniaAlcaide]

It move 16:38

[@EugeniaAlcaide]

44:42 me

[@Alan_Hero]

Howls moving castle best dub

[@EugeniaAlcaide]

38:13 paul

[@Turnajon]

Both versions of CASTLE IN THE SKY are enjoyable in their own right. Yes, the leads do sound a bit older in the Disney dub and the script a bit more liberal, but it's still far better made than the 80s dub from JAL. Also, sorry guys, but neither Miyazaki nor Ghibli think the currently existing dub is awful by any means. They had to approve of it. Otherwise it wouldn't get released. Now if you prefer the sub, fine. But that doesn't mean the dub is bad in any way. On the contrary.

[@masudashizue777]

Yes, that says "Castle in the Sky Laputa."

[@elijahalcaide]

Put on your shoes 38:24

[@elijahalcaide]

Crane Truck 38:24

[@elijahalcaide]

10:59 Crash!

[@Strife93]

Just a heads of Studio Ghibli have destroyed alot of reaction channels. Even bigger ones with well over 100,000 subs they strike the videos and they will not take it back so if you have more than 3 Ghibli movies on your channel out of the blue they will strike them all getting your channel deleted and youtube will 99% of the time will not help you out on this unless something has changed recently Ghibli is something I'd stay away from which sucks because their movies are so good but they do not like reactors watching their movies

[@TrophyReacts]

Yeah I actually got a strike for this video but quickly got it cleared so wasn’t too big of a deal, I don’t know why companies are still doing this to reaction videos in 2024, ridiculous, thanks for the heads up though! Which channels got removed?!

[@Strife93]

@@TrophyReacts VKunia had her 1st Main channel deleted don't remember the other names of the channels off the top of my head but I believe in her video explaining it she says that all the channels that reached out to try and help her get her channel back by all of them emailing KZbin they all said they've had Ghibli problems I'm not not a youtuber though so I just wanted to let you know they have gotten channels taken down for watching their stuff and she did use fair use it just she had like 5 movies from them on her channel and they all got strikes and she never got her channel back she started a new one and had to start over she's back up to over 200,000

[@TrophyReacts]

That sucks! What the hell, glad they’re back to a lot of subscribers though! How long ago was this if you remember??

[@Strife93]

@@TrophyReacts I don't remember exactly mabey 2 years ago give or take

[@Yngvarfo]

I thought to warn you about the same thing. It might be an idea to keep a separate channel for the Ghibli reactions so the rest don't get taken down as well if it happens.

[@HelTra91]

imo this was one of the worst dubbing jobs for Ghibli movies, my favourite is the scene where's on the tower with the robot screaming for Pazu, in the original it's an actual scream, in this... I don't know what she was doing but she sounds bored most of the time.

[@Turnajon]

What?! Absolutely not. There are far worse dubs around. In fact, the previous non-Disney dub of LAPUTA was in every way a far worse dub in every way. Disney's may not be perfect, but worst? No way. It's miles better than that.

[@WesMinhOmura]

Yeah, the best part of this dub was probably extending some of the scores. Would be cool if they re-released the sub with the dubbing Joe Hisaishi score.

[@ひめひめ-i7g]

映画に敬意を払い、動画で稼ぐつもりなら、 日本語、英語字幕で観るべきだと思います😮