When Marnie was there

Recently I was going through my collection of videos and dvds, sorting out a few I didn't really need when I saw an anime a friend had suggested I might like a short while back and the copy I ordered a few weeks ago arrived.

Based on the novel by Joan G Richardson, it's about a twelve year old girl called Anna  who believes she is sat outside of a invisible magic circle to which most people belong and she shuts herself away from everyone around of her hating herself.
Anna has Asthma and concerned for her health, Anna's mother has decided the best thing to do is to send her to a sleepy town in rural Hokkaido by the sea for the fresh air.
Dreaming her days away amongst the marshes Anna finds herself drawn to an enigmatic house on the cliff, sitting on the edge.
She discovers there, Marnie a girl full of spirit who appears from nowhere and soon the pair become inseparable.
Marnie one evening makes a heartfelt request to Anna saying "Promise me something - that we'll remain a secret, forever."
Anna soon begins to wonder about the girl and her past,feeling compelled to investigate the truth about her and the start to take turns asking each other questions about themselves.
As in time Anna is more and more immersed in Marnie's world she begins to learn about  family, relationships and kindness.

Although this anime is in part sad, I feel the very real strength of it is the message of love, of self sacrifice and coming to terms with your past.
 

*Some comments on blog layout*

As you may of noticed if you are viewing this via a traditional laptop computer rather than a smartphone or tablet computer, the layout may look different this is because of two things, one I am unifying the layouts between this blog and certain others, for improved legibility and ease of finding things such as pages.

The second is technical which is the template width across the board for all three are now set at 1100 px where originally they were set at 860px because way back in the mid 2000's computer monitors had such smaller resolutions that also were square shaped and today most are at least 1366x768px or better widescreen.

It put simply looks less squashed up and cluttered with Honey Senpai now on the footer matching what has become the middles journal footer.

The original Blogger 'Classic templates were limited to 860px but I changed the templates to newer ones a year or two ago.