![]() Doraemon: The Record of Nobita : Spaceblazer have Doraemon and Nobita setting foot on Planet Koya-Koya for the first time, in the middle of night, and realize they're in another world from the two moons, respectively red and purple, in the skies.In cases where the AR-Field consists of floating platforms instead of the usual Dark World, the pattern is mirrored below as well. Digimon Universe: App Monsters has the AR-Fields, whose skies are taken up by a blocky pattern whose color scheme depends on the Appmon that calls that particular AR-Field home.Digimon Fusion had this, not just to show that they were in another world, but that they went from one section of the other world to another section, with the Island Zone having a pattern in the sky and the Sand Zone having three suns of different colors.Digimon Data Squad: The Digital World's sky is dotted with floating rocks and sometimes has electronic textures on it.Sakkakumon's internal environments each have uniquely-colored swirling patterns in their skies.Digimon Tamers's Digital World has a digital representation of the earth floating in the sky.When the kids return to the Digital World in " Enter the Dark Masters", they find the opposite - Earth's landscapes have replaced the Digital World's own sky, and different portions of the Earth continue to make up the "sky" for the rest of the Dark Masters arc. Then Izzy notices Infinity Mountain in the sky-continents and realizes that this is the Digital World, somehow projected onto Earth's skies. In " The Battle for Earth", in the wake of Myotismon's defeat, the sky is replaced by an expanse of upside-down continents and oceans that are seemingly invisible to anything but human eyesight and freeze anything that approaches them.In a downplayed example early on, Joe tries star-gazing to figure out their location, only to realize that none of the constellations match up to what they should be.The moon has disappeared and the sun is altered every few years, the sunspots move around so much that the sun looks like a giant glowing eye for a while. Instead, the stars in the night sky are all artificial and bound to a particular contractor, blinking as the contractor uses its power and falling from the sky when the contractor dies. Attempts to reclaim space only result in silence from whatever is sent up there. Darker than Black has as part of the back story that the normal sky of the Earth disappeared when Hell's Gate opened 10 years ago, taking with it all constructs found above the Stratosphere. ![]() Few people live there, opting instead for other, terraformed bodies in the Solar System with even weirder views of the heavens. Cowboy Bebop has a cracked moon in Earth's sky and tons of debris that rains down upon the Earth on a daily basis.The moon is itself a planet with Earth's density and gravity, if not its size. Manabe Johji's Capricorn is set in a Lunar-like alternate dimension in which our Earth is visible in the sky over the moon.(On Submaton Color you can see both worlds at the same time.) Because of the impending mutual collapse of the two worlds, Brigadoon is visible in Earth's sky for the entire series, and vice versa. This is a major plot point in Brigadoon: Marin and Melan.Used in Avenger to show viewers that it is really Mars where the action takes places.Strangely, however, calendar months are still roughly 30 days long. Allison and Lillia has, in addition to its Alien Geography, a moon which is much closer to the Earth, orbiting every eight days and producing spectacular solar eclipses on a disturbingly frequent basis.In other cases it may come along with alien Scenery Porn: the character knows he's on another planet, the plot made it clear already, but perhaps the audience still needs to let that sink in. Sometimes used to comedic effect when our heroes just won't believe they've left Earth for good, and shrug off all other, often painfully obvious, hints as some kind of Masquerade ("Wow, great special effects! I'm on hidden camera, right?"). Maybe the sky is simply home to cloudforms that are not of this world. The daytime sky is a lovely shade of deep purple. The sun is a different colour, or has a little and a bigger brother. Or the sky is dominated by a huge gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn, suggesting you are in fact, technically, on the moon. Perhaps Earth's all-too-familiar moon, the one in so many love songs, is broken into so many pieces it's become a ring of debris around the planet. An unusual-looking sky is a surefire way of showing the audience that the characters are not on Earth, or at least not on Earth as we know it.
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