In the 1980s and 1990s, a Japanese science fiction anime based on a French novel was broadcast and received praise from the audience, mainly attracting everyone to the mysterious Atlantis in the animation, a mysterious civilization that everyone believes to have sunk under the sea.
The anime is The Sapphire Mystery, featuring Lanlia, a girl from the mysterious continent of Atlantis, but the original project of the anime was Hayao Miyazaki, who provided a script with three elements: "A boy meets a girl, and a girl has a mysterious blue stone, a super ancient civilization." ”
Unfortunately, Miyazaki's script was not adopted, so he used the script he wrote for another of his animated films, "Castle in the Sky", and if you look closely at the two works, you will definitely find many similarities.
As a post-80s generation who was just exposed to excellent foreign animation works in the 80s and 90s, the emergence of "The Mystery of sapphire" was very novel, because many of the works introduced at that time belonged to the juvenile genre closer to the age of children, and the content was simple, and "The Mystery of sapphire" was not only a science fiction theme, but also a very full and grand world view, supported by the script of the original novel.
The plot of the anime Sapphire Mystery is:
The alien Atlanteans came to Earth in spaceships, riding green Noah, blue Noah, and red Noah, three ships that sank to the bottom of the sea, lost power and were transformed into fortresses, and one drifted at sea. The evil organization Neo-Atlantis, which vainly relies on Atlantis extraterrestrial technology to rule the world, takes control of the alien technology, and Captain Nemo and his Narcilas almighty submarine engage in several battles with Neo-Atlantis.
However, the content of "The Mystery of sapphire" is far from what we see, because this animation is based on the French novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", in 1869, the French novelist Jules Verne created "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", in which Captain Nemo used far more modern science to create the universal submarine "Nautilus".
The submarine Nautilus explores all over the ocean, including the mysterious continent of Atlantis, and there is a sequel to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Mysterious Island", which is still the protagonist of Captain Nemo.
In the anime "The Mystery of the Sapphire", Lanlia, who joined the descendants of Atlantis, showed Captain Nemo of the Nautilus in the original novel from her third perspective, and the animation changed the Nautilus to "Nachiras".
In addition, the time point of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is 1866, the Nautilus appears in the shipwreck as a sea monster, and the time point of the animation "Sapphire Mystery" is the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, France.
In the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", the plot of the naval warship being sunk by the universal submarine Nautilus is also used in the animation, and the warship on which Lanlia and John are on meet the "Nachiras" and are sunk by it, but Lanlia and John are also rescued and enter the submarine.
The "Universal Submarine" was later upgraded to become the universal battleship Nachiras, and engaged in a massive air battle with the spacecraft of the New Atlantean Empire over Paris, France, and finally destroyed the Eiffel Tower.
In addition to the battle, there are many light plots in the animation, such as after Lanlia and John drifted to the isolated island, the little inventor John invented a lot of things, and then wrote a song for Lanlia, which is extremely ugly, but it is very interesting to think back now.
That summer, we ate 5 cents a small bean popsicle, drank 1 cent orange soda, the most popular taxi on the street was the yellow Tianjin Dafa, and there were small buses, the conductor was angry, shouting at you, "Big seat, get on the bus and go!" ”
Good animations for nostalgia for childhood!