Seiseki Sakuragaoka Tama - Locations used in Whisper of the Heart 耳をすませば Mimi o Sumaseba.
A Model Place guide map located near the Keio Line, the stairway you see Shizuku heading down towards the library, the shrine in the scene of Sugimara’s rejection, the round about near the Antique shop and the view Seiji and Shizuku watch the sunrise from in the final scene.
I also read that the Tama district is also the location for Pom Poko! :D
An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.
Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)
alluka and canary hanging out? :)
Requests closed 🐛
i love pics of chickens running fast.. where do they have 2 go in sucha hurry ,, they dont even have jobs
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
bonus:
Castle in the Sky
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Howl’s Moving Castle
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Ponyo
The Cat Returns
My Neighbor Totoro
Porco Rosso
Time Out’s 50 greatest animated films:
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Directed by Yoshifumi Kondo
You could sit through ‘Whisper of the Heart’, one of Studio Ghibli’s lesser-known masterworks, and ponder: did this really need to be an animated movie? Eschewing the expressionist flights of fancy most associated with the medium, Kondo’s film is more of a muted family drama that takes place in a very basic and very real Japanese neighbourhood while adopting as its focus the growing pains of sprightly teenage heroine, Shizuku. It traces her persistent attempts to become an author, mainly of pop song lyrics, but takes a sweetly-realised romantic detour when she develops a crush on a fellow student who yearns to be a violin maker in Italy. A lavish dream sequence involving a statue of a Germanic cat in tails and a top hat is the only time we depart from reality, but here is a film that uses the gifts of the animated form to magnify the tiny magical minutiae of everyday life. Things like an ornamental grandfather clock that tells a story when it chimes, or a cat that jumps on a train and leads Shizuku to an antique shop… The realist backdrop in turn makes these small moments feel all the more pertinent, especially as the film works hard to convey the uplifting notion that inspiration can take many weird and wonderful forms – it’s just waiting for you to find it. How else could an ad-hoc chamber music rendition of John Denver’s ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ bring a big, salty tear to your eye? A beautiful film. (x)
If I have to look at this you all do to.
I made a bearded dragon stuffed animal anyone wanna see?
finally got my hands on the english wotakoi volume 4 the other day
(image is a two-panel comic of kabakura tarou saying, disgruntled, “otaku these days, it’s all ‘comfort character’ this and ‘comfort character’ that. you know who my comfort character is? MY WIFE.” koyanagi peeks up from the corner of the second panel, smug.)