Hideaki Anno, creator of the seminal Neon Genesis Evangelion sequence, made his first actual declare to fame within the animation world when beloved director Hayao Miyazaki employed him to assist make Nausicaä and the Valley of Wind again within the early ‘80s. The two anime legends would collaborate together again, less directly, with Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water—Anno’s first TV sequence, which is lastly coming to America in model through GKids.
Although Anno directed the 39-episode sequence, Nadia was primarily based on an idea by Miyazaki, which needs to be fairly apparent when you learn the plot synopsis: “It’s 1889 and people from around the globe are flocking to Paris to see scientific achievements at the Exposition Universelle despite rumors of dangers lurking in the oceans. While attending the fair, teenaged inventor Jean meets Nadia, a mysterious girl who possesses a highly sought-after crystal called Blue Water. Pursued by nefarious forces, the pair journey by sea and by sky to escape their would-be captors and to discover the secret of the crystal.”
If this sounds considerably acquainted, it is perhaps as a result of it shares rather a lot in widespread with Miyazaki’s 1986 movie Laputa: Castle within the Sky. However, it virtually is perhaps due to the various, many similarities between Nadia and the 2001 Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire, which have been so prevalent Anno’s studio Gainax wished to sue the Disney company however bought shut down by the present’s community, NHK. You can examine them here (or the same allegations that 1994’s The Lion King is a rip-off of Osamu Tezuka’s Sixties’ anime sequence Kimba the White Lion here).
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water has made it to America earlier than, most not too long ago in 2014, however once more this would be the first time the sequence has had a 4K restoration. If GKids does half as effectively with it as its not too long ago remastered Evangelion set, anime followers are in for a deal with.
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