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Lost and Red Noah

posted 18 years ago by totallyhank
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Ok, I'm REALLY not trying to give the "Everything, the Bible included, has totally ripped-off Nadia" crowd ammo here, (and keep in mind that this is a casual observation about a popular show which I enjoy greatly that happens to be made by Disney whom I strongly do NOT believe to have stolen IP from any japanese anybody)but doesn't the island from Lost just positively SMACK of Red Noah? They crash on this island to find polar bears and hatches. Then the island starts to whisper at them. I half expected the monster to be the Gratan... which admittedly would've been a modicum cooler than a mean-spirited whisp of fortune smoke.

[–] nofan 17 years ago

so that's why Disney discontinued to dubbed this anime because they'd said it was a copy to their animated film, Atlantis. Hello, guys! This anime was the first one to be released before Atlantis by a decade difference. Sometimes, Disney sucks.

finger-licking good: http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/fingers.asp

[–] JTurner82 15 years ago

You're getting some facts mixed up here.

First of all, Disney did not dub this anime at all. The first dub was done by Streamline, but unfortunately they didn't get much farther than the first 8 episodes due to financial problems. The second one was by ADV's Monster Island Studios, and all 39 episodes were dubbed. IOW, Disney had nothing to do with it.

The arguments that Disney used this anime for inspiration for Atlantis are very much overblown and fatuous; there's practically very little about either work that indicates one is a direct copy of the other. Heck, they've said they didn't even know about Nadia at all. The thing with Kimba on the other hand was a different story, but that has nothing to do with either work.

[–] VIsraWratS 15 years ago

Well, Nadia doesn't have polar bears but the idea of being stuck on a mysterious magical island is very similar. It's probably a coincidence but who knows. Perhaps it was an inspiration for LOST. I certainly wouldn't call LOST a rip off though... unless it turns out the island is a spaceship. Actually, I wouldn't be all that surprised if it does.

[–] PreachCaleb 8 years ago

Mysterious islands are nothing new, and certainly not exclusive to Lost.

Can't stop the signal.