Is Land of the Lustrous inspired by James Cameron's Avatar?

reno_rita

Let's look at the similar plots of these films: Phos and Cinnabar (first image) have similar story roles to Jake and Neytiri from Avatar (second image): While Avatar is a sci-fi space story, and Land of the Lustrous is a fantasy adventure anime, both take place on an alien planet with different species. The stories begin similarly: In Avatar Jake is a newcomer to Pandora and meets the alien Neytiri. She doesn't seem to get along with Jake at...

Originally asked by Urss CH on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

While the Manga came out in October 2012, Haruko Ichikawa had somehow seen the movie in 2010s, but it was never said she had draw all of the ideas from the movie, Despite working in the early production, she had spent on working all the drawing and sketches side by side even with the scripts. So it's either that the Anime was somehow influenced by the Movie.

Full answer by Owen Ayanami: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/118937 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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