For bonus points, Hayao Miyazaki actually directed this episode!
Anime & Manga- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: The movie is the reason that Rentarou is destined to have a hundred girlfriends - the God of Love was watching the movie while filling out Rentarou's soulmate count, and was so distracted by the "Balse" scene that he accidentally added two zeroes to the count.
- The first meal Rentarou shares with Kurumi is fried egg on toast, which she was craving due to overhearing a conversation about Laputa.
- Meme's desperate attempts to hide her eyes in Chapter 52 are compared to Colonel Muska's final moments.
- In Chapter 64, Yamame is compared to a Laputian robot.
- The volume 5 extras have Pazu attempt to catch a girlfriend, only to be intercepted by Rentarou.
- Angel Beats!: At one point, Otonashi attempts to imagine what Angel's house would look like. What comes up are heavily pixellated versions of Howl's castle and Laputa.
- Bastard!! (1988): Upon reaching the hidden city of King Crimson Glory, some of the Sorcerer Shogun initially refer to it as Laputa, to which (presumably) the city itself reacts in annoyance.
- Gintama: Kagura ponders if she can really see Laputa in the sky.
- No Game No Life: In Episode 5 of the anime adaptation, Shiro and Sora try to bring down the Floating Continent Avantheim by shouting the spell used to destroy Laputa (which doesn't work). They're even inexplicably cosplaying as Pazu and Sheeta during this scene.
- Rosario + Vampire: Touhou Fuhai is briefly seen watching the film on a tablet during Chapter 52.
- Sarazanmai: During one of Sara's news broadcasts, she and Migii cosplay as Pazu and Sheeta while parodying the scene where Sheeta floats down from the sky towards Pazu.
- Space☆Dandy: Said giant robot looks quite a lot like a larger, more malevolent version of the Laputian robot guardians.
- Your Lie in April: The tune Kaori plays on the melodica in the first episode of the anime adaptation is "A Morning of the Slag Ravine"
, the same tune that Pazu plays on his trumpet. It's implied that she's playing that song in the original manga as well, since one of the children with her remarks that her playing hasn't attracted any birds and Kaori says it worked for Pazu.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): The map featured in the Oubliettes & Orges two page story in the back of the issue features "Laputa", some sort of Castle in the Sky, Rohirrim, a reference to a The Lord of the Rings race, and the Larping Fields.
- Sonic the Comic had several elements of Knuckles' floating Island clearly inspired by Laputa Castle In the Sky, most notably◊ the robots.
- Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea contains a few Shout-Outs to earlier Miyazaki movies: Fujimoto's ship looks like a boat crossed with a flaptor; the elderly ladies' knick-knack shelf contains a toy bird god, and when Sosuke puts his dad's hat on he looks a lot like Tombo.
- Rogue One: The design of K-2SO and the KX-series droids as biped robots which tower over humans, with a bullet-shaped head atop a barrel-shaped torso, with long and gangly legs and arms and oversized hands, and which (K-2SO at least) is shown to be difficult for an entire squad of troopers to take down, make them similar to the robots in Castle in the Sky.
- Minecraft: The Iron Golem, resembles the robots from Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and if you watch closely, they occasionally offer a rose to villager children.
- Pokémon: The legendary Pokémon Regigigas heavily resembles the robots from the animated film, complete with exceedingly long arms and mossy body.
- Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter: The store Droids R Us contains a HA-Y-AO droid which refers to Hayao Miyazaki and the robots from Castle in the Sky.
- Vanilla Level Design Contest 8 has a level named after the film.
- Somebody at Sega evidently loved this film. Dr Robotnik looks a lot like Papa, especially in the early concept art. Several ship designs in Panzer Dragoon seem very similar to those seen in this film and finally Skies of Arcadia is almost a whole Whole-Plot Reference about a powerful lost civilisation and the hunt for an ancient city and it's technology between an imperialistic army and a rag-tag band of Sky Pirates. There is a train scene very much like the one with Dola and Aika even sports Dola's distinctive hair.
- Batman: The Animated Series: The robots in the opening to "Deep Freeze" have designs based on both Castle in the Sky and The Mechanical Monsters.
- Steven Universe: In the episode "Rose's Room", the robot in the game looks like the robots from Laputa.
