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%%* ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'': Neo Verona.

* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', there are floating islands floating in the atmosphere of the [[{{Terraform}} terraformed Venus]].
* ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'': Laputa is a castle-city built on an island floating high in the sky. The movie's opening sequence shows that many such islands once existed, but all but one fell to earth for reasons unshown.

** The ''Manga/DigimonXrosWars'' manga once again has the Green Zone with its floating islands. The adjacent Snow Zone also has them, but they're frozen over and covered with icicles. They're little more than set dressing.

* In ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'', seemingly all of society lives on floating islands. Heavy cloud cover combined with the overshadowing effect of these islands makes the otherwise perfectly habitable regular ground more or less abandoned (and earns it the name "The Land of Darkness" to boot). The only ones who dwell there are Robotnik, who implicitly doesn't care that it's so gloomy so long as he has the place to himself, and his robots, who obviously don't care that it's so dark. Also, there's no threat of these continents falling to the ground -- instead, [[InvertedTrope the threat is that they'll be flung out into space]], as the continents all join at massive glaciers that functionally anchor them to the planet's surface. If it were to be destroyed, the combination of the planet's rotation and their own anti-gravity would cause them to hurtle out of orbit, being torn apart in the process.

[[caption-width-right:350:The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sky castle]] of [[Literature/GulliversTravels Laputa]] in ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''.]]

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheTinLabyrinth'' has Nobita and friends ending up in the mysterious Hotel Burinkin, located on an island in the middle of nowhere which contains both beaches and snowy mountains at the same time. Turns out the island is an alien spaceship, which then flies off much to the gangs' horror.

** ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic IV'' has the [[TitleDrop Clouds of Xeen]], which are stationary cloud banks connected to the world by the towers. They're not solid enough to support people, but levitation magic can support you over the clouds. In the game's [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo counterpart]], ''Darkside of Xeen'', the area above the towers is primarily connected by skyroads, but there's also the city of Olympus, which is situated on a true Floating Continent.
** In ''V'', the Academy faction's towns are all of this type. However, it only serves an aesthetic purpose as these cities can be sieged and captured by a non-flying army perfectly well -- they land to meet the attackers instead of throwing something heavy on them, or, better still, landing ON them. The Academy cities seen before the [[ExpansionPack Tribes of the East]] does not actually fly, even though the town screen quite heavily suggests this -- the first truly flying city seen in the series is encountered in [[BigDamnHeroes Zehir]]'s Tribes of the East-campaign, and serves the role as a campaign-specific game mechanic wherein Zehir can land the city in tactical locations large enough to hold the city for the price of a sum of his experience, thus allowing him some manner of logistical flexibility.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': To demonstrate how, the farther to the east you go in the post-apocalyptic setting, the more advanced the LostTechnology there is to discover, when Akira goes on an EscortMission of a CoolTrain headed east, he can't believe his eyes when he sees an ArtificialGravity created floating continent.
* ''LightNovel/SkyWizardsAcademy'': Because of the devil beetle threat on the surface, humanity has had to live in the sky, resulting in aerial floating cities. The series mostly takes place in the one called Mistgun, which houses the sky wizard academy.

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Set in a ScienceFantasy WorldInTheSky where {{Unobtainium}} float stone makes islands and CoolAirship vehicles fly. This is a future earth subject to HostileTerraforming by the "New Mankind" AbusivePrecursors.

* ''LightNovel/WorldEndWhatDoYouDoAtTheEndOfTheWorldAreYouBusyWillYouSaveUs'': A collection of floating islands make up civilization's last refuge. Everything below them is an ashen wasteland ruled by the creatures that destroyed all life on the surface.

* In ''LightNovel/TenkuuNoShiroOMorattaNoDeIsekaiDeTanoshikuAsobitai'' has the main character use his NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus to ask for a flying castle.

* ''Franchise/TombRaider'': The last level of ''Tomb Raider II'' consists of vivid green floating islands. Even more inexplicable is that they're apparently deep underground, somewhere beneath the Great Wall of China.

* ''Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries'': Skyhold in ''Shadow of Israphel'' is a floating city accessible only by airplane.

*** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIIRevenantWings'' takes place largely on a floating archipelago.

*** The floating city of Bhujerba floats due to a high quantity of a minable magic crystal called magicite. There are other floating landmasses seen as background images, but Bhujerba is the only populated one.

* ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'': One story takes place in a floating town, and at one point had to deal with a floating pirate fortress. [[spoiler: The town ends up being overrun with vampires caused by a failed experiment, and the residents of the pirates were long dead run by an AI]].

** ''ComicBook/NewGods'': The New Gods' city on New Genesis is a ShiningCity floating over the planet.

** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has Glitzville, a giant New York pastiche that can only be reached by blimp, and provides the page quote.

** The Ancients also have a flying city... [[UpToEleven that travels through space]].

* ''VideoGame/SepterraCore'': The entire gameworld is a concentric series of floating continents around the eponymous core. Having six layers of them takes it UpToEleven.

* ''Rygar'': The final level, in the original NES version, is a giant castle floating in the sky. It can only be accessed by playing a flute.

* ''VideoGame/Rygar'': The final level, in the original NES version, is a giant castle floating in the sky. It can only be accessed by playing a flute.

* ''Rygar'': The final level, in the original NES version, is a giant castle floating in the sky. It can only be accessed by playing a flute.