It was first published in Japan in 1980 by Iwanami Bunko Boy. He was nominated for the Carnegie Medal finalist in 1968, and was televised on the BBC's Jackanory in 1971 (5 episodes). The first edition of the novel was published in 1967 by the British publisher Collins and sold 250,000 copies. Anna comes across a nearby abandoned mansion, where she meets Marnie, a mysterious girl who asks her to promise to keep her secrets from everyone. The film follows Anna Sasaki living with her relatives in the seaside town. It transposes the setting from Norfolk, England in the original novel to Hokkaido, Japan. This is Yonebayashi's second directorial work after The Secret World of Arrietty in 2010 and was his final film before he left Studio Ghibli and joined Studio Ponoc. While Marnie lacks the densely mystical, immersive quality of Ghibli at its best, the film features characteristically exquisite hand-drawn animation and a sensitivity to the precarious, friable quality in an adolescent girl’s self-worth.(US$34.1 million) When Marnie Was There (思い出のマーニー, Omoide no Mānī, literally Marnie of Memories) is an animated psychological drama film written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, produced by Studio Ghibli and released on July 19, 2014. There are parallels with Coraline, and with the Ghibli production Spirited Away. The theme of a lonely child and a supernatural companion is a popular one in animation.

At times, it feels more of a romantic entanglement than a platonic one, although given later revelations, it is unlikely that this reading is the intended one.

And it is a friendship that is not without jealousy, tension and misunderstanding. The connection between them is instant – Anna has at last found a friend. It is there that she meets Marnie, the golden-haired girl who lives in a seemingly abandoned mansion across the bay. Sickly and silent, she is sent for the summer to a foster family. The protagonist, Anna, is a teenage girl poised at that vulnerable, half-formed moment in life when every casual cruel word hits like a poisoned dart.

B ased on a very British novel by Joan G Robinson and transposed, via Japan’s legendary animators Studio Ghibli, to a sleepy seaside town in Hokkaido, this beguiling, bittersweet tale has a bruised maturity that some of the more overtly fantastic Ghibli stories are lacking.

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