While spending the summer at his aunt's house, the young but sickly Shou makes an amazing discovery: after following the house cat into the bushes, he gets a glimpse of a miniature girl about the size of his finger! Calling her kind "Borrowers," as they survive on tiny bits of human possessions, the girl introduces herself as Arrietty. Guided by the whispers of her heart and inspiration from The Baron, she resolves to carve out her own potential and dreams. However, as her relationship with Seiji grows, Shizuku becomes determined to work toward a goal. Shizuku learns while acquainting herself with Seiji that he has a dream that he would like to fulfill, causing her dismay as she remains uncertain of her future and has yet to recognize her talents. Meeting a peculiar cat on the train, Shizuku follows the animal and is eventually led to a quaint antique shop, where she learns about a cat statuette known as "The Baron." Taking an interest in the shop, she surprisingly finds Seiji, and the two quickly befriend one another. Curiosity strikes Shizuku, and she decides to search for the boy who shares her love for literature. Glancing at the checkout cards of her books one evening, she notices that her library books are frequently checked out by a boy named Seiji Amasawa.
Shizuku Tsukishima is an energetic 14-year-old girl who enjoys reading and writing poetry in her free time. Reunited with Ponyo, Sousuke must pass an ancient test to restore order in the world and let his companion live on as a human. But the magic released into the ocean causes an imbalance in nature, causing the Moon to start falling out of orbit and the tides to grow dangerously stronger. Using the power received from Sousuke's blood, she grows arms and legs and escapes to the surface once more. When found and captured, Ponyo rejects her birth name and declares that she wants to become a human. Her father Fujimoto, a sorcerer who forsook his humanity to live underwater, searches frantically for his daughter Brunhilde. Unknown to Sousuke, Ponyo already has a name and a family.
After healing a cut on Sousuke's finger by licking it, the goldfish is named Ponyo by her new friend. After getting stuck in a glass jar, she drifts to the shore where she is freed by Sousuke, a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother Lisa in a house by the sea while his father Koichi works on a fishing boat. In an endeavor to return to normal, Sophie must accompany Howl and a myriad of eccentric companions-ranging from a powerful fire demon to a hopping scarecrow-in his living castle, on a dangerous adventure as a raging war tears their kingdom apart.Ī goldfish sneaks away from home and floats off on the back of a jellyfish. Unfortunately, this encounter, brief as it may be, spurs the vain and vengeful Witch of the Waste-in a fit of jealousy caused by a past discord with Howl-to put a curse on the maiden, turning her into an old woman. However, Sophie's simple life takes a turn for the exciting when she is ensnared in a disturbing situation, and the mysterious wizard appears to rescue her. Sophie, as the plain daughter of a hatmaker, does not expect much from her future and is content with working hard in the shop. That castle is home to the magnificent wizard Howl, infamous for both his magical prowess and for being a womanizer-or so the rumor goes in Sophie Hatter's small town. That jumbled piece of architecture, that cacophony of hissing steam and creaking joints, with smoke billowing from it as it moves on its own.