Seattle Weekly: The Secret World of Arrietty: The Borrowers Becomes a Japanese Anime
When Shō arrives, he gets a glimpse of Arrietty, a Borrower girl, hiding in the plants. At night, Arrietty's father, Pod, takes her on her first "borrowing" mission, to get sugar and tissue paper. After obtaining a sugar cube from the kitchen, they travel to a bedroom which they enter through a dollhouse.
Arrietty is a worthy addition to the Studio Ghibli canon, with animation that matches some of the best of the studio's past efforts. It's the first film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and it's based on the novel The Borrowers by English author Mary Norton.
Arrietty Clock is the protagonist of The Secret World of Arrietty. She is the daughter of Pod Clock and Homily Clock who is a Borrower. Arrietty is a 14-year-old girl with shoulder-length thick wavy auburn hair fair skin and very dark black eyes.
Synopsis 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
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From Academy Award®-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi comes the gorgeous adaptation of The Borrowers. Arrietty and her family live out of sight from humans, but she strikes an unlikely friendship when she meets a human boy.