When Marnie Was There

Just watched the latest (and possibly last?) film from Studio Ghibli, the sweet and melancholy "When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Marnie)and I really loved it- The tale of a girl named Anna who befriends an ethereal girl namd Marnie living in a seemingly abandoned house on a lake is already as dreamlike as they come, and when you add the flourish of Studio Ghibli's wonderfully mesmerizing and mystical scenes, it becomes nothing short of spellbinding!

 I had a bit of a dilemma deciding if I was going to watch the Japanese version or the English one. Usually, of course, I go straight for the Japan one, but I really like Hailee "True Grit" Steinfeld and wanted to see it with her voicing. I knew that whichever I watched first would end up as the "real" version for me , so in the end, the voices of Kasumi Arimasu, Nanako Matsushima and Hitomi Kuroki beat out Hailee Steinfeld, and it was the Nihongo version I watched!
PS: Reading up on the movie, I found out that all these years, I've been pronouncing Stdio Ghibli's name incorrectly- It's not GIB-lee, but rather JIB-lee!! Well, better later than never, LOL
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com