Pazu is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Sheeta) in the 1986 animated Studio Ghibli film, Castle in the Sky. He is an orphaned boy determined to prove his father's claims of Laputa being real as true following his death.
He is voiced by Mayumi Tanaka in the Japanese version, Barbara Goodson in the English dub by Streamline Pictures and James Van Der Beek in the English dub by Disney.
What Makes Him Pure Good?[]
- While he's a little impulsive and quick to jump into dangerous situations, he's a very good-hearted kid who does it all for the sake of protecting Sheeta and shares her appreciation of nature and altruistic streak as seen with by how much he admires Laputa's garden alongside her, how quick he is to become on good terms with the Dola and the pirates later on despite them initially being some of their pursuers, as well as feeling bad for General Muoro and his men being dropped to their deaths by Muska.
- He always believed in his father's words about Laputa and built a small plane to find the legendary Laputa in order to save his father's legacy.
- When he saw Sheeta falling from the sky, he quickly ran to catch her and subsequently helped her recooperate despite the fact that she was a complete stranger to him.
- When he found out Dola and her pirate gang were after her for her crystal, he quickly helped her escape from them and was even willing to fight them directly to protect her.
- Upon subsequently finding out government agents were after her too, he tackled one of them to allow her to escape and continued to put himself in harm's way for her sake by following her on the train tracks she was fleeing on despite them being fired on by a tank. He subsequently allows them to fall knowing her crystal would slow their descent and let them down safely into the mines below.
- When Muska offered him money in exchange for abandoning his quest to find Laputa, he wasn't able to refuse his offer without getting himself killed, and he was still incredibly reluctant while agreeing to the Colonel's offer, only doing so because Sheeta herself insisted that he do it for her.
- Upon being ambushed by Dola and her pirate gang when he returned home, he insists that they take him with them when going after Sheeta for her crystal so he can rescue her from Muska and convinces Dola to let him come.
- During their rescue, he briefly takes over Dola's aerial vehicle when she gets temporarily knocked out and prevents them from crashing until she regains consciousness.
- Along with Dola, he swoops in and saves Sheeta before the ground she's standing on gives way as a result of all the damage to the fortress inflicted by the Laputian robot and the government attacking and destroying it in response.
- Still intent on finding Laputa to prove his father's claims were true, he and Sheeta convince Dola to let them join her in the search for it in exchanging for working hard aboard their ship, during which he helps her husband with some tough mechanical work.
- Despite initially being on antagonistic terms with the Dola Gang due to them trying to kidnap Sheeta at the beginning of the movie, he gradually becomes on good terms with them thanks to the time he spends among them and finding out they're not such bad people after all.
- When Sheeta confesses to him that she's scared and no longer wants to find Laputa due to what happened to the robot and not wanting anything like that to happen to anyone else for the sake of protecting her, he convinces her that they should see it through since if Laputa really exists and has the kind of power it's rumored to have, they need to keep it out of the hands of people like Muska.
- Upon finding Laputa along with Sheeta and discovering a garden at its center that's tended by a single robot that's still functioning along with some animals it's taking care of, he and her become determined to keep it safe from the army so they don't destroy it.
- He frees Dola, her husband and her sons by sneaking a knife to them from underneath the tiles where they're tied up so they can cut themselves free and get out before they get executed by the army.
- When Sheeta takes the crystal away from Muska to prevent him from controlling Laputa and passes through a hole in the wall to him and implores him to take it and throw it into the ocean, he refuses to abandon and leave her at Muska's mercy despite the latter being armed and only having a small cannon that's out of ammo to confront him with.
- Upon reuniting with Sheeta and being given a minute by Muska to surrender the crystal to him or die, he reveals he still has the crystal and they resolve to recite the Spell of Destruction that she was taught as a child with it to save Laputa from Muska’s grasp, fully expecting that they’ll be sacrificing their lives by doing so (though they end up surviving). This causes all of the city’s weapons and outer walls to crumble, at least temporarily blinds Muska, which causes him to fall to his death offscreen, and allows the remainder of the city, including the garden where the remaining active Laputian robot and some animals reside, to float higher into a stationary orbit above the Earth, safe from misuse.
Trivia[]
- He and Sheeta are the two Castle in the Sky heroes to be Pure Good.
External Links[]
- Pazu on the Heroes Wiki
- Pazu on the Studio Ghibli Wiki
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