History Anime / TheBorrowerArrietty

* FriendToBugs: Arrietty is shown idly playing with a pill bug early in the movie. She rolls it up in her hands, tosses it up and down like a ball, then sets it down to let it rejoin its mate.

Arietty is a young member of a race known as the Borrowers. As one might suspect from that name, they make their living stealing items (borrowing, in their parlance) from the giant "human beings." Their primary rule is to avoid ever being seen by these [[HumansAreCthulhu terrifying creatures]]. Arietty, however, meets a human boy whom she doesn't believe means her or her family harm. Nonetheless, she is forbidden from seeing him.

* DubNameChange: Sho to Shawn and Sadako to Jessica in the Disney dub.

* DubNameChange: Sho to Shawn and Sadako to Jessica in the Disney dub. Oddly, Haru is kept.
** Not quite. Haru is changed to Hara, a simple one-letter difference.

Arietty is a young member of a race known as the Borrowers. As one might suspect from that name, they make their living stealing items (borrowing, in their parlance) from the giant "human beans." Their primary rule is to avoid ever being seen by these [[HumansAreCthulhu terrifying creatures]]. Arietty, however, meets a human boy whom she doesn't believe means her or her family harm. Nonetheless, she is forbidden from seeing him.

* AnimationBump: Apparent with the close-ups, especially with the flora and fauna, which move rather realistically with the wind.

* AnimationBump: Apparent with the close-ups, especially with the flora and fauna, which move rather realistically.

* PunchClockVillain: Haru.

* HairDecorations: Arrietty and her little clothespin hairclip.

* CreepyCockroach: Arrietty tries to fight one to show off her bravery, but Pod discourages her, saying a borrow shouldn't go looking for trouble.
* DubNameChange: Sho to Shawn and Sadako to Jessica in the Disney dub.

* FriendToBugs: Arrietty is shown idly playing with a pill bug early in the movie. She rolls it up in her hands, tosses it up and down like a ball, then sets it down to let it rejoin its friends.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: All of the good characters are drawn to be normal and decent-looking. Haru, on the other hand, has moments where she looks rather toad-like.

** The title character is a young woman in her early teens belonging to a mythical race. She wears a mono-colored one-piece dress, has dark(-ish) colored hair, has a bow-like hair ornament, and she befriends a cat.
[[KikisDeliveryService Sound familiar?]]

** In the photo of Sho's mother and aunt as children, they look similar to Satsuki and Mei from MyNeighborTotoro. In addition, their mother resembles the mother of Satsuki and Mei.
** [[KikisDeliveryService The title character is a young woman in her early teens belonging to a mythical race. She wears a mono-colored one-piece dress, has dark(-ish) colored hair, has a hair ornament that's a warm color & looks like a bow, and she befriends a cat. Does this sound familiar?]]

* SchizoTech: Haru has a modern flip-style cell phone. Yet the house has a rotary dial landline phone as well- working in perfect order. Which makes it hard to place when exactly the movie is supposed to be taking place.