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Anonymous05/21/24, 16:26No.4212632When Marnie Was There
Discuss the lovely book and the amazing movie. It's the only Ghibli film that made me cry twice.
Previous threads:
>https://archived.moe/u/thread/3240926/
>https://archived.moe/u/thread/3565991/
Read the book (in epub)
>https://files.catbox.moe/xs9ahp.epub
And post pics and feelings and tell us if you are fine on the outside, sis...
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Anon05/21/24, 16:27No.4212633
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Anon05/21/24, 16:28No.4212634
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Anon05/21/24, 16:29No.4212635
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Anon05/26/24, 00:38No.4216093
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Anon05/26/24, 00:39No.4216096
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Anon05/26/24, 00:40No.4216097
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Anon05/26/24, 00:41No.4216098
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Anon05/26/24, 02:53No.4216147
So was Marnie a ghost, or was it some time travel shenanigans?
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Anon06/02/24, 02:51No.4222756
>Novel implies it is a ghost.
Wait, so grandma Marnie, knowing Anna is her granddaughter still does all the yuribaity stuff with her?
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Anon06/10/24, 02:31No.4228685
>What I want to know was, was the original novel so yuribaityIt very much was, the movie is actually toned done somewhat.https://jayfax.neocities.org/marnie This blog is a great repository of various Marnie lore and tidbits. The writer stopped by a few times in previous threads (of the blog, not Joan Robinson, she's long dead).
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Anon06/12/24, 07:48No.4230184
I'm sure Anna will find another nice blonde girl to wife up someday...
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Anon06/12/24, 07:52No.4230185
Til there was a yuri Ghibli movie
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Anon06/12/24, 13:30No.4230283
Bought the artbook a couple months ago. I think it's time for a rewatch.
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Anon06/14/24, 00:48No.4231250
Went to see it again at the theater on Wednesday. Still makes me tear up like it did in 2015.
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Anon06/15/24, 04:21No.4232019
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Anon06/15/24, 04:21No.4232020
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Anon06/15/24, 04:31No.4232022
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Anon06/15/24, 12:54No.4232143
How different is the book from the movie? I'm thinking about reading it.
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Anon06/17/24, 05:43No.4233481
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Anon06/20/24, 01:39No.4235464
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Anon06/20/24, 03:31No.4235502
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Anon06/25/24, 06:06No.4240225
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Anon06/29/24, 05:00No.4243685
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Anon07/04/24, 11:23No.4247105
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Anon07/07/24, 22:41No.4249805
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Anon07/16/24, 21:47No.4255666
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Anon07/17/24, 02:29No.4255740
is the book an older version, or the revised one? Fuck I'm still pissed about it. We need to find an old ebook of it.
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Anon07/19/24, 03:30No.4256830
So, was Marnie a predator?
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Anon07/23/24, 11:30No.4259515
is the movie worth watching??
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Anon07/24/24, 09:42No.4260047
When will we get something similar to this bittersweet kino? The Summer You Were There got the bitter covered but not the sweet.
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Anon07/24/24, 10:59No.4260069
i just finished watching the movie and why did anna imagine marnie in the first place? i dont get it
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Anon07/28/24, 03:51No.4262377
Do you think using the guide in the marnie Blog we could create our own version of the epub that's accurate to the OG?I have no idea how to edit epubs but if someone knows how I'm willing to go through the trouble, seems like it wouldn't be that much work.
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Anon08/05/24, 18:16No.4267538
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Anon08/09/24, 08:27No.4269681
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Anon08/09/24, 08:36No.4269686
I hope there's a sequel where she will find another lesbian lover when she grows.
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Anon08/09/24, 10:00No.4269718
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/09/sobbing-in-the-aisles-writers-on-their-most-memorable-parent-kid-film-experiences
>Before When Marnie Was There, I used to say that lockdown had ruined my daughter’s viewing habits. Pre-Covid, she was on 20 minutes a day of carefully curated, gentle kids TV.
>After two weeks of lockdown, aged three, she’d learned how to use the remote control and discovered Netflix. I thought we’d lost her.
>Then, one wet Sunday a couple of years ago, we put on When Marnie Was There. As a family, we’d watched other Studio Ghibli films together, but something about this slow, gorgeous animation (a world away from the loud, obnoxious telly shows she usually favoured) got her; the connection was instant and intense.
>Now aged seven, she still gets the same dreamy look whenever we put on Marnie.
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Anon08/16/24, 14:00No.4273611
Reminds me of the Kiki book. The movie left out a lot about Kiki's and Ursula's first meeting. UM UM . IT IS YOU! Um I need the stuffed cat back. Did it fall in the forest??? FOR ME IT IS YOU, MY BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN HER BEAUTIFUL BLACK DRESS!!! That whole part was great. That and when Kiki first meets the senior fortunetelling witch.
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Anon08/19/24, 01:06No.4275091
Hi!
So I made the edits to the Ebook, changing most things to how they were in the original save for the fixed typos.
Read this beautiful story in all its gay glory here-
https://files.catbox.moe/u7qjgn.epub
Or on mega if you want
file/ApAWiLBT#yPVjhk7dW1AbVppfPr-gZ41eW26PTOL8R4guIJAKCQw
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Anon09/03/24, 21:21No.4284182
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Anon09/20/24, 07:33No.4294587
there should be more yuri of this
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Anon09/21/24, 10:07No.4295215
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Anon10/02/24, 04:39No.4301898
Finally got around to watching the movie. Beautiful. I know the book has lots of lovely lines to read between, but the physicality of their interactions in a visual medium adds a new dimension to it even if some other aspects are toned down. And of course it's still a great story even if you're somehow immune to subtext. Now want to reread the book.
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Anon10/13/24, 04:27No.4309616
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Anon10/13/24, 04:27No.4309618
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Anon10/13/24, 04:27No.4309619
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Anon10/13/24, 04:27No.4309620
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Anon10/13/24, 04:28No.4309621
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Anon10/19/24, 02:55No.4313065
Is it incest if one of them is a ghost/tulpa?
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Anon10/23/24, 20:58No.4316148
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Anon11/08/24, 20:37No.4325600
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Anon01/02/25, 00:40No.4353835
I use Calibre for epubs, but any epub reader should work sis
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Anon01/06/25, 03:08No.4355996
Happy new year Marnie thread!
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Anon01/13/25, 02:05No.4359765
There's a lot of gayness, queerness and dykes in this book.
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Anon01/16/25, 11:30No.4361485
Something anachronistic in your modern adaptation of a novel from the 60s? Just have a character remark, "My, how quaint!"
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Anon01/16/25, 11:36No.4361486
That reminds me, blogsis, I recently read the book and then your various posts, and it was a beautiful and emotional experience and brought me great comfort in the last few days of my dad's life, but also at one point in your movie summary you mentioned Anna arriving in Hokkaido and I have to issue a formal complaint because the London analogue is Sapporo, the capital OF Hokkaido (she simply moved from big-city Hokkaido to country town Hokkaido), where I in fact lived when I first watched this movie in cinemas, so in fact you are nitpicking and biased, I win.
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Anon01/16/25, 12:06No.4361501
Perhaps surprisingly, this is foreshadowing.
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Anon01/16/25, 12:13No.4361503
Oh no, I started paying attention to this girl and now suddenly I'm wet!
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Anon01/16/25, 12:27No.4361508
Literally who gives a fuck about boys though??
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Anon01/16/25, 12:53No.4361527
This scene is a metaphor for lesbian sex.
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Anon01/16/25, 12:59No.4361532
She seems like less of her own independent person and more of an Anna-relative character.
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Anon01/16/25, 13:10No.4361535
Yeah, that's what I tell Japanese girls
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Anon01/16/25, 13:25No.4361540
I've told you that like five hundred times, you little freak.
I preferred book Priscilla.
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Anon01/16/25, 13:32No.4361544
wew
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Anon01/16/25, 13:59No.4361551
the English dub is so bad lmao
like, notably there are good Ghibli ones specifically
but this is so fucking not one of them
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Anon01/16/25, 14:03No.4361553
Hey look, it's Xi Jinping!
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Anon01/16/25, 14:18No.4361562
Yes, make that private promise and form that personal relationship with a younger girl.I've listened to literally like three lines out of curiosity. But like I said, the Disney Ghibli dubs are renowned for being not total shit. This, I'm discovering, is not so.
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Anon01/16/25, 14:28No.4361565
He has a name, you little shit
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Anon01/16/25, 14:39No.4361573
I feel I may not have been in the best frame of mind for my rewatch. It's a beautiful film, but I wasn't as affected as my first watch or when reading the book recently. It was a bit. I dunno, anime? in its construction, especially after the party scene. Reading the book Anna's development felt natural and satisfactory. Watching the film it felt more like, "ah well, we've got to that point in the three-act structure, so..."
Lovely film, but I think I owe it still another, less-depressed and less-drunk watch. I'm sure I have more thoughts, but I really ought to sleep.
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Anon01/16/25, 18:59No.4361735
All animated films are dubbed. Cartoon characters can't actually speak.
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Anon01/17/25, 09:42No.4362307
>blogsis updated the site in response to my dumb nitpick
Reading it though, I'm afraid you've got it backwards. Anna moved FROM Sapporo, (the capital of Hokkaido and the London analogue), TO a small seaside village. The movie starts in Sapporo.
Despite various English-language sites claiming otherwise, Kissakibetsu is not the name of the village, but merely the closest station. They probably just saw Kissakibetsu in English and assumed that was the town even though they drove from Kissakibetsu to get there, describing the place they're heading as much quieter but not referring to it by name.
Anna goes to 岸浦 post office to post her letter before her first Marsh House trip. That name is never spoken in the film and exists in the real world as a family name read Kishiura. That said, across all of the setting material I've seen online or in my collection of promotional material and the BD the film is simply said to be set in Hokkaido in a village by the sea, with no mention of the village's name. The non-specificity is probably how you got mixed up originally.
It's probably Kishiura, but they definitely took no care to establish this as part of the setting. Maybe a novelisation or some of the BD extras would talk about it more. Incidentally, I came across a fan novel where the writer used it as the name of the town https://www.pixiv.net/novel/series/567795
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Anon01/25/25, 21:53No.4368516
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Anon01/28/25, 14:42No.4370103
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Anon01/30/25, 18:02No.4371407
So I stumbled on this: https://otakumode.com/news/55f14872944c0e4331e97156/Studio-Ghibli-Grand-Exhibition-Gets-Underway-in-Nagoya!In 2015 Ghibli put on a whole exhibition that featured the backgrounds of Yohei Tanada from Marnie, as well as a bunch of other awesome looking displays, including dioramas from scenes in the movie. I honestly can't believe I never found out about this until now, I wonder if much of this stuff is open to the public at the Ghibli museum now, or if it's locked away in storage.
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Anon01/30/25, 18:11No.4371422
Marnie helps the Oiwa's pick tomatoes
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Anon02/08/25, 02:13No.4376150
I hope that they do Marnie again at this years Ghiblifest. They rarely do though. If it isn't on the list I think I will watch at home on the first day of Spring.
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Anon03/09/25, 11:12No.4392175
i went to kinokuniya to check out their ghibli collection and i didnt see any marnie blu rays there???
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Anon03/11/25, 21:11No.4393395
So what's the best release? I currently have this
https://nyaa.si/view/1464253
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Anon04/12/25, 13:56No.4407801
All right let's see how gay these kids are in Japanese
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Anon04/27/25, 02:27No.4409872
Are we all still here?
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Anon05/08/25, 16:14No.4415433
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Anon05/08/25, 16:42No.4415446
What Marnie's doing?
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Anon05/09/25, 16:59No.4415967
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Anon05/11/25, 04:00No.4416748
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Anon06/23/25, 08:42No.4437615
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Anon08/12/25, 03:28No.4458776
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Anon08/13/25, 04:46No.4459173
Yuri spotted in wplace, right where it should be
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Anon09/03/25, 03:41No.4467252
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Anon09/13/25, 06:33No.4470970
I don't know if I can ever rewatch Marnie again now. It's been a while anyway but I've built so much emotional baggage related to it over time that my mind just stalled confronting it. Though funnily enough I always jeered a bit when people say they can't rewatch Grave of the Fireflies.
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Anon09/29/25, 19:06No.4477070
Intrestingly someone recently started direct messaging me on discord about Marnie stuff, having got my name from the wplace thing. She shared me a link to various blog writings and I gingerly pointed that out I wrote it.
She's reading through it and has given me some insight I've not thought about. Anna appears to acting as unreliable narrator through the story, she skips over things that aren't important to her, that explains why Peggs disappear in the second half of the story. They're probably "actually" an active presence, but things really are narrated by her. This might be a bit obvious but I hadn't specifically thought of it as being Anna's perception of the world.
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Anon10/12/25, 13:31No.4482062
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Anon10/21/25, 22:58No.4485357
I need to rewatch this.
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Anon10/23/25, 19:56No.4486008
Books similar to/inspired by Marnie out there? I read one romance novel by someone who was clearly a fan but overall it had nothing of the vibes of Marnie.
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Anon11/06/25, 04:55No.4490724
Anna and her mom probably fucked after Anna realized it wasn't even incest
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Anon11/25/25, 05:34No.4497395
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Anon11/25/25, 05:34No.4497396
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Anon12/27/25, 23:41No.4509714
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Anon01/18/26, 22:10No.4518062
