John Lasseter, Pixar animator and a fan and friend of Miyazaki, would often sit with his staff and watch Miyazaki's work when encountering story problems. For example, after eating Aogaeru, he speaks with Aogaeru's voice and he starts to jump like a frog. However, the evil Witch of Waste takes issue with their budding relationship and casts a spell on young Sophie, which ages her prematurely.

I]t's not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances [.Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. With his assumed large amount of wealth, No-Face became a sensation with the workers who constantly begged for tips from him. In Juban, Tokyo, a middle-school student named Usagi Tsukino befriends Luna, a talking black cat who gives her a magical brooch enabling her to become Sailor Moon: a soldier destined to save Earth from the forces of evil.

This remarkable film - finally released here two years after it was made - first entranced European audiences at the Berlin film festival. George, who is fed up with the stories that have made his children less practical, angrily declares that Wendy has gotten too old to continue staying in the nursery with the boys. Since then, Akko has lived by these words and aspired to be a witch just like Shiny Chariot, one that can make people smile.Twelve-year-old Ted lives in a place virtually devoid of nature; no flowers or trees grow in the town of Thneedville. Features commentary, colour stills, sketches, storyboards, and illustrations used to envision the rich fantasy world of the film. There are actually many Western influences and resemblances: Homer's Odyssey, Lewis Carroll, L Frank Baum and maybe even The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.