Ghibli Houses - Shizuku’s House In Whisper Of The Heart (1995)

TOKYO GODFATHERS ‘東京ゴッドファーザーズ’ dir. Satoshi Kon

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underrated trope: “i’ve lost my memory and idk who you are but i just have this feeling that i’m supposed to trust you”

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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)

Though the jokes that "since gay pride month is over, july is now gay wrath month" are funny and all, it's important to remember that July is ACTUALLY Disability Pride Month and y'all should really be focused on boosting disabled voices and issues this month! For instance, the fact that marriage equality doesn't actually truly exist in the United States for disabled people, or the fact that disabled people are forced to live in poverty or lose their disability benefits, or the fact that 1 in 5 people with chronic pain end up sufferring from alcoholism or other addictions, or how accessibility is still a daily battle for all of us, or how there are active hate groups on places like reddit who try to "call out" those they see as "faking" their disabilities.

This July, boost disabled voices. Talk about the issues that our community faces. Call out ableism.

Tracing Shizuku's Steps: Visit “Whisper of the Heart” Locations in Real Life

Did you know? Studio Ghibli’s “Whisper of the Heart”—that beautiful expression of genuine and innocent love—is actually set in the real city of Tama in the suburbs of Tokyo! Here you can relive, with all of your senses, this nostalgic tale where Shizuku Tsukishima and Seiji Amasawa follow their dreams and fall in love. You can visit settings such as the slope which Shizuku and Seiji climb side by side, the library, and the antique shop Chikyu-ya where their paths cross. If you ever wanted to step inside an animated movie come to life, then this is the place to do it!

Real life locations of Studio Ghibli’s Whisper of the Heart by Tsunagu Japan

Tama City

Irohazaka

Sakuragaoka

Irohazaka Sakura Park

Konpiragu Shrine

Sakuragaoka Roundabout

Helping shovel snow.

The way queer people online police other queer people's work is just so weird. They're like "killing off a queer character is Bury Your Gays regardless of the context behind the death and it's illegal for lesbian relationships to be unhealthy in any way also homophobia should never exist in fantasy worlds ever. The fuck is self expression."

S.O Gurls~