The Secret World of Arrietty!

Here in America, the Studio Ghibli film "The Secret World of Arrietty" was released today! ^-^

I was so excited when I saw the trailer for the first time! (Which, can you believe it, was only about a week ago!) I am a big fan of Studio Ghibli anyways, so it's normal for me to get so excited. ^-^;

So, since I can't really go out to the movie theater, and I would rather hear it in Japanese anyways (because dubbing is almost always awful) my friend helped me find the Japanese version of "The Secret World of Arrietty"and that is what I watched today. By the way, everything in this post is my opinion and you don't have to agree with any of it.

OK, to begin: AMAZING.

I mean, I can never quite wrap my head around all of the detail and thought put in everything in Studio Ghibli films, but this was amazing! Everything seemed so life-like and effortless and natural. And the "Doll House" was amazing! So cute too! ^-^ Also, the way that the difference in size between the worlds was shown was really cool, especially the scene where Arrietty sees the kitchen for the first time.

Even the characters have such depth to them! How Haru is so nosy and curious and how Arrietty is courageous and excitable, yet still has a slight shyness to her. I just love how much thought was put into everything.

And the music! So gorgeous! (Of course, my family is music people anyways.)
But even the sound effects of humans walking from the view of the Borrowers, as well as all of the different sounds when Pod and Arrietty are on her first borrowing. I loved how they made all the sounds in that scene!!! XD

Ah, "The Secret World of Arrietty is amazing and I will definitely watch it again. And again... and again and again and... so on. :D

Well, watching it made me want to read "The Borrowers," so I found the copy that was hiding in our bookshelf and I am going to read it! (Along with some other books from my Read Japan Plan.) And I may do a post comparing the two some time later. ^-^

Well, I hope everyone gets a chance to see "The Secret World of Arrietty" because it is amazing (and has a much better ending than Ponyo... I was so disappointed with the ending of Ponyo...)

For more information on "The Secret World of Arrietty", please enjoy the link to Wikipedia provided. ^-^

Thanks for reading and I'll see you again some time soon! XD