![]() Having worked on six previous Ghibli movies ( Princess Mononoke, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Tales from Earthsea, and Ponyo), as well as several of the company’s shorts, he definitely understood the house style and mentality. Longtime Ghibli in-between artist and animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi was given the opportunity to direct, a responsibility he did not take lightly. Based on the novel The Borrowers by English writer Mary Norton, Arrietty changed just enough from the source material so as to keep it from being overly complex, maintaining almost all of the central themes and sense of wonderment. The Secret World of Arrietty (or just Arrietty in Japan) is, like both Whisper and Earthsea, a project Miyazaki and Takahata had been talking about adapting for 40 years. But finally, in 2010, a new director offered a movie that perhaps best matches both the look and the feel of a Hayao Miyazaki movie: Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s The Secret World of Arrietty. Whisper of the Heart was a solid movie that felt like it took from both of Studio Ghibli‘s creative founders, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata The Cat Returns was cute enough but definitely didn’t look like a typical Ghibli movie and Tales from Earthsea proved a movie could retain the iconic look of a Ghibli movie without any of the narrative oomph or emotional resonance. The first three movies I’ve talked about in Ghibli Bits ranged in quality, but even the best of them felt a little off.
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