The story is very well written, engaging, and heartwarming.ġ. The chemistry and development between the characters is amazing.ġ3. A very well handled laidback and somber tone.ġ2. As stated above, this leads to some very strong, powerful, and even tearjerking moments.ġ1. A strong sense of emotion, charm, and heart.ħ. Simple yet wonderfully designed backgrounds.Ħ. Great and loveable side characters like Yoriko, Setsu, Kiyomasa, Sayaka, Toichi, Kazuhiko, and Hisako.ģ. Anna and Marnie are both very likeable protagonists.Ģ. For the first time, Anna calls Yoriko her mother.ĭuring the end credits, Anna says goodbye to her friends before seeing Marnie at the mansion window waving goodbye to her.ġ. Yoriko tells Anna about the government payments, but reassures her that they have always loved her.
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This revelation brings closure about her identity. When Anna sees Marnie's name written on the back, she realizes that she is Emily's daughter and Marnie's granddaughter. She gives Anna a photograph of the mansion and says it belonged to Anna's grandmother. Marnie raised her granddaughter, who was placed in foster care after her death.Īt the end of the summer, Yoriko arrives to take Anna home and is delighted to see Anna having made new friends in Hisako, Toichi and Sayaka. In her adulthood, Emily run away from home, had a daughter herself, but she and her husband were killed in a car accident. Marnie recovered but preteen Emily was resentful for her mother abandoning her. With no other family to care for her, Emily was sent to a boarding school. Kazuhiko died from a sudden illness and Marnie committed herself to a sanatorium to cope with her loss. When Anna recovers, Hisako reveals Marnie's story: Marnie married Kazuhiko and they had a daughter named Emily, whom Marnie loved dearly due to years of loneliness and depression. Marnie says she is sorry for leaving her and that she cannot see Anna anymore. They bring her back to the Oiwas, where Anna dreams about confronting Marnie. She and her brother find Anna unconscious with a high fever. Sayaka finds the missing pages from Marnie's diary, which include passages about Kazuhiko and the silo. Marnie conquers her fear and Anna has a dream of Kazuhiko comforting Marnie. Anna leads Marnie to the silo to confront the latter’s fear of it. The maids bully her and threaten to lock her in the silo near the mansion. Marnie shares how her parents are always traveling abroad, and how she is left behind with her rude nanny. She makes the assumption that they only pretend to love her for the money, and says she can’t forgive her biological family for leaving her behind and dying. Anna tells Marnie she found documents that show her foster parents are paid to take care of her. During the move-in, Anna meets a girl named Sayaka, who gives her Marnie's diary that had been hidden in a drawer. Hisako comments that Anna's sketches look like a girl whom she knew when she was young. Locals find Anna asleep outside, suggesting that the party was also a dream.Īnna meets Hisako, an older woman who paints. Marnie invites Anna to a party at the mansion, where she sees Marnie dancing with a boy named Kazuhiko. At the mansion, Anna has visions of being back in the Oiwa house, implying that she is dreaming. The two agree to keep their meetings secret. On the night of the Tanabata festival, she meets the girl, Marnie. Anna starts dreaming of a blonde girl in the mansion. She finds it familiar but gets trapped by the rising tide until she is found by Toichi, an old fisherman. At the doctor's recommendation to send Anna to a place where the air is clean, her parents decide to have her spend summer break with Yoriko's relatives, Setsu and Kiyomasa Oiwa, who live in a rural seaside town located between Kushiro and Nemuro.Īnna investigates an abandoned mansion across a salt marsh.
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One day, she suffers an asthma attack at school.
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Lets continue our Studio Ghibli marathon with the tale of two girls who may have some connections to each other.Īnna Sasaki is a 12-year-old girl with low self-esteem living in Sapporo with foster parents, Yoriko and her husband.