In the first movie to grace this section, this week I write about Whisper of the Heart. Another Ghibli film (albeit, not a Miyazaki one, though he did work on it), this is a story about a girl who loves reading and writing - so much so that it causes her school work to suffer, much to the chagrin of her parents. Soon she meets a boy who happens to be the same boy who had checked out many of the same library books that the girl has checked out at well, and follows the progression of their relationship.
This kinda sounds like a cute little romance movie. The Ghibli film The Cat Returns is also apparently based off of some of the stories that the girl images in this movie. I’ve rarely run into a Ghibli film I didn’t really like, and this one sounds like a good one from the start.
