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[Anime]Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea


Anime total pnts rank=Avg x Eval Rank 3,512/in 3,702 titles(Total -20/Deviation 44.30) Rank 3,511<= => Rank 3,513
Anime avg pnts(minimum:10 evals) Rank 1,667/in 2,044 titles(Average -0.24=Normal/84 reviews) Rank 1,666<= => Rank 1,668
Anime total pnts rank of 2008 Rank 176/in 184 titles Rank 175<= => Rank 177


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Graphic1.18(Good)17
Character/Setting-0.47(Normal)17
Story-0.53(Bad)17
Music-0.76(Bad)17
Voice/Actor-0.88(Bad)17
Enjoyed35%6/17
Scareful29%5/17
Interesting29%5/17
Made me think24%4/17
Shocked24%4/17
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Story

The plot is centered on a fish-girl who lives in an aquarium in her father's underwater castle with numerous smaller sisters. When her father takes her and her siblings on an outing in his four-flippered submarine, she is driven by a desire to see even more of the world and swims away. She ends up stranded on the shore of a small fishing town, and is rescued by a boy named Sosuke, who cuts his finger in doing so. She licks his wound when he picks her up, which heals it in short time. After taking a great liking to her, Sosuke names her Ponyo and promises to protect her forever. Meanwhile, her father, Fujimoto, is looking for his daughter, upset that she ran away and believes the humans kidnapped her. He calls his wave spirits to return Ponyo to him. Sosuke is heartbroken by this, and goes home with his mother, Lisa (or "Risa" in some translations), who tries to cheer him up, but to no avail. Ponyo and her father have a confrontation, where Ponyo refuses to let her father call her "Brunhilda". She declares her name to be Ponyo, and voices her desire to become human because she has started to fall in love with Sosuke. Suddenly she starts to grow legs and turning into a human, a consequence of the human blood she swallowed when she licked Sosuke's blood. Her father turns her back with difficulty and goes to summon Ponyo's mother. Meanwhile, Ponyo, with the help of her sisters, breaks away from her father, and releases his magic to make herself human. The huge amount of released magic into the ocean causes an imbalance in the world, which in turn results in a huge storm. Riding on the waves of the storm, Ponyo goes back to visit Sosuke. Lisa, Sosuke, and Ponyo stay the night at Sosuke's house, hoping the storm will be over, whereupon Lisa leaves the house to check up on the residents of the nursing home where she works.
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Granmamare, Ponyo's mother, arrives at Fujimoto's submarine. Fujimoto notices the moon has come out of its orbit and the satellites are falling like shooting stars. Granmamare declares that if Sosuke can pass a test, Ponyo can live as a human and the world order will be restored. If he fails, Ponyo will turn into sea foam. Sosuke and Ponyo wake up to find that most of the land around where the house has been covered by the ocean. Lisa has not come home yet, so with the help of Ponyo's magic, they make Sosuke's toy boat life-size and set out to find Lisa. While traveling they see ancient extinct fish swimming, such as the Gogonasus and Licosus. After landing and finding Lisa's empty car, Ponyo and Sosuke go through a tunnel. There Ponyo loses her human form and resumes the form of a fish. Sosuke and Ponyo are taken by Fujimoto into the ocean and down to the protected nursing home where they're reunited with Lisa and meet Granmamare, both of whom had just had a long private conversation. Granmamare asks Sosuke if he can love Ponyo even if she is a fish or human. Sosuke replies that he "loves all the Ponyos". Granmamare then allows Ponyo to become human once Ponyo kisses Sosuke on the surface. The film ends with Ponyo jumping up and kissing Sosuke, turning, while still in the air, into a little girl.

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Hayao Miyazaki
Toshio Suzuki
Joe Hisaishi
Stadio Ghibli
Hiroki Doi
Tomoko Yamaguchi
Kazushige Nagashima
Yuki Amami
Tokoro George
Rumi Hiragi
Yano Akiko
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
TOMOKO NARAOKA

Japan Released:2008/07/19(Sat) Movie
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1. http://www.ghibli.jp/ponyo/ (Translation)
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Gake no Ue no PonyoGake no Ue no Ponyo
Song:
Fujioka Fujimaki Nozomi Ohashi Compose:Joe Hisaishi Arrange:Joe Hisaishi [Fan reg.]
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Well, this wasn't bad anime.
But I think the anime movie which current Hayao Miyazaki makes is not "special".
Though the sales is good due to the reputation which he has gotten by his successful works like Laputa, Nausica and so on, the content it self is not so good compared to the old one.
His life theme of support of the peaced and the environment is still quite important but not so critical compared to the era of cold war.
So even if he makes anime based on same kind of theme, we cannot give high evaluation to the works.
I just feel that he now got old and cannot create "new" works.
He can still make good anime like Chihiro if he doesn't include any factor of the peace and the support of environment, but if he includes it, the story got meaningless and cheap link Ponyo.

Though Ponyo itself was interesting due to the high quality of the anime, I cannot like the story due to the above reason.

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