The Secret World of Arrietty Film Comic, Vol. 1

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Based on the beloved classic The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Arrietty isnt your ordinary fourteen-year-old girlshe is small enough to make her home under the floorboards of a typical house. Everything she and her family have they've borrowed or made from things they've borrowed--and only a little at a time, so the ladies of the house won't notice. A boy named Shawn discovers Arrietty, and before long a friendship begins to blossom. Based on the classic novel by Mary Norton,The Secret World of Arriettyis a delight for all ages.

Author Bio

Born in 1973 in Ishikawa-ken, Japan, Hiromasa Yonebayashi studied Commercial Design at the Kanazawa College of Art. In 1996 Yonebayashi joined Studio Ghibli and worked as an in-between animator onPrincess Mononoke(1997) andMy Neighbors the Yamadas(1999), and as Key Animator forSpirited Away(2001), The GHIBLIES Episode 2 (2002),Howls Moving Castle(2004), andPonyo(2008). He was also the Assistant Supervising Animator forTales from Earthsea(2006).

Yonebayashi has also worked on short films for the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka. He was the Director of Animation for the Mei and the Baby Cat Bus (2002), the Supervising Animator for Imaginary Flying Machines (2002), and also storyboarded and directed Evolution (2008), a short film documenting the Films Go Round exhibit.

Yonebayashi made his debut as the director of a feature-length animated film with Studio Ghibli's productionArrietty. AfterArrietty,Yonebayashi directed another Ghibli movie,When Marnie Was There(2014), then left the studio and made Mary and the Witchs Flowerfor Studio Ponoc.