Laputa is a male-dominated society.

The land beneath the floating island, within the region the Laputa can travel, is known as Balnibarbi.

Balnibarbi is controlled by the king of Laputa ; its ground capital is the city of Lagado.

Lindalino's rebellion against Laputa is an allegory of Ireland's revolt against Great Britain, and Great Britain's ( meaning the Whig government's ) violent foreign and internal politics ( see Jonathan Swift for his political career ).

There is one named regio, Laputa Regio, and one named planitia, Lagado Planitia ; both are named after places in Gulliver's Travels ( the fictional Laputa, a flying island, and Lagado, imaginary capital of the fictional nation Balnibarbi ).

* In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( Part III ), the base of the fictitious flying island of Laputa is made of Adamant.

Sky Captain is also different in its message which is largely about the film genre while Laputa has strong anti-war and anti-technology themes found in most of Miyazaki's work.

The Mazda Laputa is a clone of the aptly named Suzuki Kei ( which was a kei car from Mazda in Japan ).

She is best known for the roles of Ryuunosuke Fujinami in Urusei Yatsura, Pazu in Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece, Krillin, Yajirobe and Uranai Baba in Dragon Ball and Megaman Volnutt in the Megaman Legends series and other Capcom crossovers.

Shah Guido G. is the nickname of Guido Garshthavastra, the hereditary Secretary-General of the United Nations (" Sekjen "), a tyrant who rules the Earth from a levitating island called Atlantis, similar to Swift's " Laputa ".

In Disney's release of Studio Ghibli's Laputa: Castle in the Sky, the film was retitled Castle in the Sky, because " la puta " is extremely offensive in Spanish ( translating as " the whore "), though in the film, the characters still refer to the island as " Laputa " ( pronounced: lah-pyoo-tah ).

* Laputa, a fictional island full of absurd inventions put by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels to mock the Royal Society.

Laputa may refer to a fictional country from the book Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ) recounts the adventure of two orphans seeking a magical castle-island that floats in the sky ; My Neighbor Totoro ( Tonari no Totoro, 1988 ) tells of the adventure of two girls and their interaction with forest spirits ; and Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), adapted from a novel by Eiko Kadono, tells the story of a small-town girl who leaves home to begin life as a witch in a big city.

* The Mazda Laputa, whose name derives from Gulliver's Travels.

They live on a four-and-one-half-miles-in-diameter floating island fortress called Laputa, and use its shadow to prevent sun and rain from reaching earthly nations over which it travels, ensuring they will pay tribute to the Laputians.

According to Fred Patten of Streamline, " Streamline Pictures theatrically distributed an English-dubbed print of Laputa from March 24, 1989 for the next year, but Streamline never dubbed it.

Streamline licensed Laputa from Tokuma Shoten in late 1988 or early 1989, and was sent a print from Japan that had already been dubbed into English for use as an in-flight film by Japan Air Lines on its trans-Pacific flights.

Laputa was the second-best selling DVD from Studio Ghibli distributed by Disney in the year of its release ( after Spirited Away and ahead of Kiki's Delivery Service ).

Although meaningless in Japanese, the name " Laputa " comes from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

In 2003, the film's title was shortened from Laputa: Castle in the Sky to Castle in the Sky in several countries, including the United States, Mexico, and Spain.

Although " Laputa " was removed from the title, it appeared on the rear cover of the DVD, and was used throughout the film, without modification.

Both works were translated into French, and were imitated in several important particulars by Cyrano de Bergerac, from whom ( if not from Godwin directly ) Jonathan Swift obtained valuable hints in writing of Gulliver's voyage to Laputa.

Laputa has the evil madman searching for the island while Sky Captain has the island as the base of the madman from the beginning.

Laputa had several methods of enforcing obedience from its subject towns.

As a result of oppressions and tribute demanded from them by Laputa, the Lindalinians rebelled against their governor and constructed tall towers at each of the four corners of the city.

Laputa was a nagoya kei rock band from Nagoya, Japan.

Swift later added a new third book to the satire, a heterogeneous book of travels to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan.

Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler ( and quoting Kepler's third law ), Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 ( the " Voyage to Laputa "), in which the astronomers of Laputa are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21. 5 hours, respectively.

Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler ( and quoting Kepler's third law of planetary motion ), Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 ( the " Voyage to Laputa "), in which Laputa's astronomers are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21. 5 hours, respectively.

The floating island in the story has resemblance to Jonathan Swift's floating island of Laputa, setting of one of the parts of Gulliver's Travels.

Gulliver discovers Laputa, the flying island ( illustration by J. J. Grandville.

* Laputa: Castle in the Sky, an anime by Hayao Miyazaki, which centers on a floating city.

In the late 1980s, an English version of Laputa was briefly shown in the US by Streamline Pictures.

The company was also known for its 1989 theatrical distribution of the film Laputa: Castle in the Sky directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and its 1992 video dubbing of The Castle of Cagliostro.

Among the titles released by Streamline are Lensman, Robot Carnival, Doomed Megalopolis, Twilight of the Cockroaches, Crying Freeman, Wicked City, and the original English dub versions of Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa: Castle in the Sky, the Fist of the North Star film, Akira, Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro, and Lupin III: Mystery of Mamo.

Laputa was formed in July 1993 by aki and Tomoi, high school friends who were previously in the band AI SICK FACE together, and were also Roadies for band Kuroyume.

* Laputa: Castle in the Sky, 1986 anime film by Hayao Miyazaki

* Mazda Laputa, an SUV / keicar vehicle created by Mazda

The argument takes the universal language itself no more seriously than the ideas of the speculative scientists and virtuosi of Jonathan Swift's Laputa.

Swift intentionally named the floating island " Laputa " after the Spanish slang " la puta " ( lit.