The latest from Hayao Miyazaki, studio Ghibli
It's a nice piece, happy, bubbly (literally) but a whole lot more aimed towards children. Or rather, less aimed at adults. The dark undercurrents that were so typical of his other films, are almost completely gone here.
Still, reading through some trivia, one can't help but marvel at the beauty and craftmanship:
- The opening 12 seconds, involving vast schools of fish and undersea creatures, required 1613 pages of conceptual sketches to develop.
