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5/30/2025, 4:34:54 PM
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FPBP. The whole "young boy goes on an adventure and finds mysterious girl with ties to a lost, ancient, advanced civilization with an unfathomable power that evil forces attempt to misuse" is a classic story archetype in Japan that has been featured in countless JRPGs and anime.
I actually traced it back and found the earliest popular telling of the concept as we're familiar with it was the studio Ghibli movie "Castle in the Sky", but that was ultimately reworked from an earlier series Miyazaki worked on called "Future Boy Conan", which was actually based on an American novel from 1970 called "The Incredible Tide" where the story was set on a post-apocalyptic Earth, and the "ancient civilization with advanced superweapons" was just humans with nukes.
Of course, it's also easy to draw parallels with Mahabharata, an ancient Indian story that allegedy details the usage of "nuke-like" weapons used in a long forgotten war that reduced the world to ashes from which we rebuilt, and it's also not difficult to compare to the myth of Atlantis and other lost paradises that flew too close to the sun.
The simple fact is that this is a tale as old as time that is fairly appealing and evergreen, because it winds up reflecting our own humanity back at us—a coming-of-age story of mystery and discovery that tells of hubris, corruption, and tragedy while ultimately culminating in hope for the future. It's like asking why "saving the princess" was such a common trope in fairy tales. It's simply the kind of story that reminds humanity of what we'd like to be.
My favorite takes on this tale, as far as vidya, are Skies of Arcadia and Grandia. If you like anime, I'd also suggest the aforementioned Castle in the Sky, as well as Nadia: Secret of Blue Water. Pure feel-good adventure kino, the lot.
FPBP. The whole "young boy goes on an adventure and finds mysterious girl with ties to a lost, ancient, advanced civilization with an unfathomable power that evil forces attempt to misuse" is a classic story archetype in Japan that has been featured in countless JRPGs and anime.
I actually traced it back and found the earliest popular telling of the concept as we're familiar with it was the studio Ghibli movie "Castle in the Sky", but that was ultimately reworked from an earlier series Miyazaki worked on called "Future Boy Conan", which was actually based on an American novel from 1970 called "The Incredible Tide" where the story was set on a post-apocalyptic Earth, and the "ancient civilization with advanced superweapons" was just humans with nukes.
Of course, it's also easy to draw parallels with Mahabharata, an ancient Indian story that allegedy details the usage of "nuke-like" weapons used in a long forgotten war that reduced the world to ashes from which we rebuilt, and it's also not difficult to compare to the myth of Atlantis and other lost paradises that flew too close to the sun.
The simple fact is that this is a tale as old as time that is fairly appealing and evergreen, because it winds up reflecting our own humanity back at us—a coming-of-age story of mystery and discovery that tells of hubris, corruption, and tragedy while ultimately culminating in hope for the future. It's like asking why "saving the princess" was such a common trope in fairy tales. It's simply the kind of story that reminds humanity of what we'd like to be.
My favorite takes on this tale, as far as vidya, are Skies of Arcadia and Grandia. If you like anime, I'd also suggest the aforementioned Castle in the Sky, as well as Nadia: Secret of Blue Water. Pure feel-good adventure kino, the lot.
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