A drop of golden sun.: The Indigo Waves

I watched a new Studio Ghibli movie today, it's called From Up On Poppy Hill. I love Studio Ghibli's animations, they are just as good as Disney's Pixar's animations. And the music is just so beautiful. My favourite Studio Ghibli movies are Howl's Moving Castle (my new URL is a reference to this movie), The Castle In The Sky, Spirited Away, and this one. :)

It's about this girl called Umi, her mother's away and her father died in the Korean War. (This movie is set in 1963, the year before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.) Every morning, she hoists these flags which signal "Safe Voyage", and though she doesn't know it, a guy called Shun, who passes by in his father's tug, always answers her. (Shun is from her school, so I suppose you can guess where this is going?)

Things get complicated when it appears that they might share the same father. (Of course they actually don't, but they don't find out until the end of the movie.)

Obviously, there is more to the story. But I'm not going to tell you. . . Yet. ;)

What I like about Studio Ghibli movies are: They can exhibit true love without having to have any love scenes (e.g. kissing). Somehow, it really makes the love between the characters real and pure. Which in my opinion, somehow makes them better than Disney. (No offense! I love Disney too!)

Shun's poem for her, which was published in their school newspaper. :)

How they first met:

Shun was asked by the student council president to jump off the roof of their clubhouse. (I still don't understand why.) The president is a pretty cool guy, unfortunately, he's not featured in this GIF.

Thankfully, the student council president made the boys remove the cover for a pool at the bottom before he told Shun to jump, so out of sheer dumb luck, Shun ended up in the pool.

Sweet scene from the movie. :)

Umi finds out that Shun helps out at the school newspaper, she agrees to help out too after the student council president offers to give her his usually-accurate forecasts for their next exam. (I know, how can you possibly refuse?!) She also learns that there are plans to demolish the clubhouse and she suggests that they clean it up to restore it to its former glory.