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* When Ponyo returne to Sousuke, she causes a massive flood. While, thanks to her mother, nobody was hurt, it's still a nightmarish display.
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* When Ponyo returne returns to Sousuke, she causes a massive flood. While, thanks to her mother, nobody was hurt, it's still a nightmarish display.
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* When Fujimoto takes Ponyo away from Sosuke early in the movie, Sosuke wades into the ocean, frantically calling her name. The scene quickly turns the AdultFear dial up to maximum, as he wades so deep that he's in real danger of getting swept away and drowning. Indeed, his head goes under the water at least a couple times. When his mother sees him, it's ''her'' turn to frantically call ''his'' name as she tears down the steps and rushes in to grab him. One can only imagine what was going through her head at that moment. For instance, what if she hadn't found him so quickly?
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* When Fujimoto takes Ponyo away from Sosuke early in the movie, Sosuke wades into the ocean, frantically calling her name. The scene quickly turns the AdultFear parental worries dial up to maximum, as he wades so deep that he's in real danger of getting swept away and drowning. Indeed, his head goes under the water at least a couple times. When his mother sees him, it's ''her'' turn to frantically call ''his'' name as she tears down the steps and rushes in to grab him. One can only imagine what was going through her head at that moment. For instance, what if she hadn't found him so quickly?
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** It's not clear that he intended to actually wipe out humanity. He calls the current age the Era of Man, and yet the ocean isn't dead. So bringing about the Era of the Ocean and ending the Era of Man doesn't imply that humanity has to die.
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* When Fujimoto takes Ponyo away from Sosuke early in the movie, Sosuke wades into the ocean, frantically calling her name. The scene quickly turns the AdultFear dial up to maximum, as he wades so deep that he's in real danger of getting swept away and drowning. Indeed, his head goes under the water at least a couple times. When his mother sees him, it's ''her'' turn to frantically call ''his'' name as she tears down the steps and rushes in to grab him. One can only imagine what was going through her head at that moment. For instance, what if she hadn't found him so quickly?
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* There's something unsettling about the scene where Sousuke finds his mom's abandoned car. While the rest of the film was very fantastic and whimsical, (just moments before you had a five-year-old and his best-fish-friend sailing an enlarged, candle-powered toy boat) but all of a sudden Sousuke seems genuinely frightened and vulnerable, just like a real kid. The suddenness and realism of this scene, with Sousuke tearfully crying for his mom, is oddly disturbing, tapping into the fear of a kid being alone and a parent knowing their kid is alone. It's made worse moments later when Ponyo starts to change back into a fish.
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* There's something unsettling about the scene where Sousuke finds his mom's abandoned car. While the rest of the film was very fantastic and whimsical, (just moments before you had a five-year-old and his best-fish-friend sailing an enlarged, candle-powered toy boat) but all of a sudden Sousuke seems genuinely frightened and vulnerable, just like a real kid. The suddenness and realism of this scene, with Sousuke tearfully crying for his mom, is oddly disturbing, tapping into the fear of a kid being alone and a parent knowing their kid is alone. It's made worse moments later when Ponyo starts to change back into a fish.
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Some of this is contrivance, speculation, or outright complaining. Cleaning this up.
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* Those [[BuffySpeak dark-water-blob-things]] Fujimoto sends to get Ponyo back from Sosuke. They practically submerge him, and those EYES...
** The sounds they make don't help matters at all.
* Also, when the sea piled up...
** The sounds they make don't help matters at all.
* Also, when the sea piled up...
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* Those [[BuffySpeak dark-water-blob-things]] Fujimoto sends to get Ponyo back from Sosuke. They practically submerge him, and those EYES...
**''eyes''. The sounds they make don't help matters at all.
are also quite creepy.
*Also, when the sea piled up...When Ponyo returne to Sousuke, she causes a massive flood. While, thanks to her mother, nobody was hurt, it's still a nightmarish display.
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* The fact that Fujimoto plans to eventually flood the earth with an explosion of sea life to put an end to the age of humanity. This is mentioned a grand total of once in the movie, and never mentioned again after Ponyo floods his elixirs. He's probably still down there, brewing...
** However, given that his daughter now lives on land (and he seems to respect her choice) he probably won't go through with it. Doesn't make what he was ''going'' to do any less scary, though. Ponyo may have indirectly saved humanity...
*** And then there's the fact that she's mortal and he's not...better hope that Ponyo has kids, otherwise he can just wait til she dies...
* The scene where Ponyo tells her father she wants to go back to Sousuke. When you think about it later, you realize that Fujimoto is basically forcibly sedating his daughter to the point of knocking her out. Her sisters look a bit freaked out themselves.
* Fujimoto's minions. They're very unsettling with the distorted mumbling and the freaky eyes. And fact that they rush and submerge a five-year-old?
** However, given that his daughter now lives on land (and he seems to respect her choice) he probably won't go through with it. Doesn't make what he was ''going'' to do any less scary, though. Ponyo may have indirectly saved humanity...
*** And then there's the fact that she's mortal and he's not...better hope that Ponyo has kids, otherwise he can just wait til she dies...
* The scene where Ponyo tells her father she wants to go back to Sousuke. When you think about it later, you realize that Fujimoto is basically forcibly sedating his daughter to the point of knocking her out. Her sisters look a bit freaked out themselves.
* Fujimoto's minions. They're very unsettling with the distorted mumbling and the freaky eyes. And fact that they rush and submerge a five-year-old?
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* The fact that Fujimoto plans to eventually flood the earth with an explosion of sea life to put an end to the age of humanity. This is mentioned a grand total of once in the movie, and never mentioned again after Ponyo floods his elixirs. He's probably still down there, brewing...
**However, given that his daughter now lives on land (and he seems to respect her choice) he probably won't go through with it. Doesn't make what he was ''going'' to do any less scary, though. Ponyo may have indirectly saved humanity...
*** And then there's the fact that she's mortal and he's not...better hope that Ponyo has kids, otherwise he can just wait til she dies...
* The scene where Ponyo tells her father she wants to go back to Sousuke. When you think about it later, you realize that Fujimoto is basically forcibly sedating his daughter to He responds by squeezing the point of knocking bubble until she is unconscious to try and keep her out.safe. Her sisters look a bit freaked out themselves.
* Fujimoto's minions. They're very unsettling with the distorted mumbling and the freaky eyes. And the fact that they rush and submerge afive-year-old?five-year-old doesn't help.
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* Fujimoto's minions. They're very unsettling with the distorted mumbling and the freaky eyes. And the fact that they rush and submerge a
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* Anyone watching this who has experiences with little kids capturing wild animals will be consumed with anxious certainty that Sousuke is going to kill that fish. Seeing him yanking her stomach around, hammering a rock over her head, carrying her suffocated body away from water in his bare hands, then sticking her in the bushes is not a good way to build the audience's trust in a stupid little kid, Miyazaki!
* There's something unsettling about the scene where Sousuke finds his mom's abandoned car. While the rest of the film was very fantastic and whimsical, (just moments before you had a five-year-old and his best-fish-friend sailing an enlarged, candle-powered toy boat) but all of a sudden Sousuke seems genuinely frightened and vulnerable, just like a real kid. The suddenness and realism of this scene, with Sousuke tearfully crying for his mom, is oddly disturbing, tapping into the fear of a kid being alone and a parent knowing their kid is alone. It's made worse moments later when Ponyo starts to change back into a fish.
* The very end. Oh, sure, it's supposed to be cute: Sosuke and Ponyo the fish kiss, and Ponyo turns into a human girl, presumably permanently. But she's over the edge of a cliff when the movie ends. Think about that.
** It's unlikely that her wizard father or her sea-goddess mother would let her fall into the sea.
* The fact that Ponyo basically messed up the ecology of the entire sea to the point that ancient fish that have long been extinct are now alive and kicking and just as dangerous as they were all those millions of years ago. This troper got anxiety just thinking about all the [[SeaMonster beasts of the deep]] Ponyo may have unintentionally unleashed back into the world. The damage that would do to the ecosystem would be colossal.
* There's something unsettling about the scene where Sousuke finds his mom's abandoned car. While the rest of the film was very fantastic and whimsical, (just moments before you had a five-year-old and his best-fish-friend sailing an enlarged, candle-powered toy boat) but all of a sudden Sousuke seems genuinely frightened and vulnerable, just like a real kid. The suddenness and realism of this scene, with Sousuke tearfully crying for his mom, is oddly disturbing, tapping into the fear of a kid being alone and a parent knowing their kid is alone. It's made worse moments later when Ponyo starts to change back into a fish.
* The very end. Oh, sure, it's supposed to be cute: Sosuke and Ponyo the fish kiss, and Ponyo turns into a human girl, presumably permanently. But she's over the edge of a cliff when the movie ends. Think about that.
** It's unlikely that her wizard father or her sea-goddess mother would let her fall into the sea.
* The fact that Ponyo basically messed up the ecology of the entire sea to the point that ancient fish that have long been extinct are now alive and kicking and just as dangerous as they were all those millions of years ago. This troper got anxiety just thinking about all the [[SeaMonster beasts of the deep]] Ponyo may have unintentionally unleashed back into the world. The damage that would do to the ecosystem would be colossal.
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* The very end. Oh, sure, it's supposed to be cute: Sosuke and Ponyo the fish kiss, and Ponyo turns into a human girl, presumably permanently. But she's over the edge of a cliff when the movie ends. Think about that.
** It's unlikely that her wizard father or her sea-goddess mother would let her fall into the sea.
* The fact that Ponyo basically messed up the ecology of the entire sea to the point that ancient fish that have long been extinct are now alive and kicking and just as dangerous as they were all those millions of years ago. This troper got anxiety just thinking about all the [[SeaMonster beasts of the deep]] Ponyo may have unintentionally unleashed back into the world. The damage that would do to the ecosystem would be colossal.
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** It's unlikely that her wizard father or her sea-goddess mother would let her fall into the sea.
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** It's unlikely that her wizard father or her sea-goddess mother would let her fall into the sea.sea.
*The fact that Ponyo basically messed up the ecology of the entire sea to the point that ancient fish that have long been extinct are now alive and kicking and just as dangerous as they were all those millions of years ago. This troper got anxiety just thinking about all the [[SeaMonster beasts of the deep]] Ponyo may have unintentionally unleashed back into the world. The damage that would do to the ecosystem would be colossal.
*The fact that Ponyo basically messed up the ecology of the entire sea to the point that ancient fish that have long been extinct are now alive and kicking and just as dangerous as they were all those millions of years ago. This troper got anxiety just thinking about all the [[SeaMonster beasts of the deep]] Ponyo may have unintentionally unleashed back into the world. The damage that would do to the ecosystem would be colossal.
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*** And then there's the fact that she's mortal and he's not...better hope that Ponyo has kids, otherwise he can just wait til she dies...
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*** And then there's the fact that she's mortal and he's not...better hope that Ponyo has kids, otherwise he can just wait til she dies...dies...
* The scene where Ponyo tells her father she wants to go back to Sousuke. When you think about it later, you realize that Fujimoto is basically forcibly sedating his daughter to the point of knocking her out. Her sisters look a bit freaked out themselves.
* Fujimoto's minions. They're very unsettling with the distorted mumbling and the freaky eyes. And fact that they rush and submerge a five-year-old?
* Ponyo's chicken leg [[BodyHorror transformation.]]
* Anyone watching this who has experiences with little kids capturing wild animals will be consumed with anxious certainty that Sousuke is going to kill that fish. Seeing him yanking her stomach around, hammering a rock over her head, carrying her suffocated body away from water in his bare hands, then sticking her in the bushes is not a good way to build the audience's trust in a stupid little kid, Miyazaki!
* There's something unsettling about the scene where Sousuke finds his mom's abandoned car. While the rest of the film was very fantastic and whimsical, (just moments before you had a five-year-old and his best-fish-friend sailing an enlarged, candle-powered toy boat) but all of a sudden Sousuke seems genuinely frightened and vulnerable, just like a real kid. The suddenness and realism of this scene, with Sousuke tearfully crying for his mom, is oddly disturbing, tapping into the fear of a kid being alone and a parent knowing their kid is alone. It's made worse moments later when Ponyo starts to change back into a fish.
* The very end. Oh, sure, it's supposed to be cute: Sosuke and Ponyo the fish kiss, and Ponyo turns into a human girl, presumably permanently. But she's over the edge of a cliff when the movie ends. Think about that.
** It's unlikely that her wizard father or her sea-goddess mother would let her fall into the sea.
* The scene where Ponyo tells her father she wants to go back to Sousuke. When you think about it later, you realize that Fujimoto is basically forcibly sedating his daughter to the point of knocking her out. Her sisters look a bit freaked out themselves.
* Fujimoto's minions. They're very unsettling with the distorted mumbling and the freaky eyes. And fact that they rush and submerge a five-year-old?
* Ponyo's chicken leg [[BodyHorror transformation.]]
* Anyone watching this who has experiences with little kids capturing wild animals will be consumed with anxious certainty that Sousuke is going to kill that fish. Seeing him yanking her stomach around, hammering a rock over her head, carrying her suffocated body away from water in his bare hands, then sticking her in the bushes is not a good way to build the audience's trust in a stupid little kid, Miyazaki!
* There's something unsettling about the scene where Sousuke finds his mom's abandoned car. While the rest of the film was very fantastic and whimsical, (just moments before you had a five-year-old and his best-fish-friend sailing an enlarged, candle-powered toy boat) but all of a sudden Sousuke seems genuinely frightened and vulnerable, just like a real kid. The suddenness and realism of this scene, with Sousuke tearfully crying for his mom, is oddly disturbing, tapping into the fear of a kid being alone and a parent knowing their kid is alone. It's made worse moments later when Ponyo starts to change back into a fish.
* The very end. Oh, sure, it's supposed to be cute: Sosuke and Ponyo the fish kiss, and Ponyo turns into a human girl, presumably permanently. But she's over the edge of a cliff when the movie ends. Think about that.
** It's unlikely that her wizard father or her sea-goddess mother would let her fall into the sea.
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* Lisa's driving can be a bit nerve wrecking. Specifically when she's trying to out-drive the incoming waves and rain.
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* Lisa's driving can be a bit nerve wrecking.wracking. Specifically when she's trying to out-drive the incoming waves and rain.
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** However, given that his daughter now lives on land (and he seems to respect her choice) he probably won't go through with it. Doesn't make what he was ''going'' to do any less scary, though. Ponyo may have indirectly saved humanity...
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** However, given that his daughter now lives on land (and he seems to respect her choice) he probably won't go through with it. Doesn't make what he was ''going'' to do any less scary, though. Ponyo may have indirectly saved humanity...humanity...
*** And then there's the fact that she's mortal and he's not...better hope that Ponyo has kids, otherwise he can just wait til she dies...
*** And then there's the fact that she's mortal and he's not...better hope that Ponyo has kids, otherwise he can just wait til she dies...
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* The fact that Fujimoto plans to eventually flood the earth with an explosion of sea life to put an end to the age of humanity. This is mentioned a grand total of once in the movie, and never mentioned again after Ponyo floods his elixirs. He's probably still down there, brewing...
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* The fact that Fujimoto plans to eventually flood the earth with an explosion of sea life to put an end to the age of humanity. This is mentioned a grand total of once in the movie, and never mentioned again after Ponyo floods his elixirs. He's probably still down there, brewing...brewing...
** However, given that his daughter now lives on land (and he seems to respect her choice) he probably won't go through with it. Doesn't make what he was ''going'' to do any less scary, though. Ponyo may have indirectly saved humanity...
** However, given that his daughter now lives on land (and he seems to respect her choice) he probably won't go through with it. Doesn't make what he was ''going'' to do any less scary, though. Ponyo may have indirectly saved humanity...
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* Lisa's driving can be a bit nerve wrecking. Specifically when she's trying to out-drive the incoming waves and rain.
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* Lisa's driving can be a bit nerve wrecking. Specifically when she's trying to out-drive the incoming waves and rain.rain.
* The fact that Fujimoto plans to eventually flood the earth with an explosion of sea life to put an end to the age of humanity. This is mentioned a grand total of once in the movie, and never mentioned again after Ponyo floods his elixirs. He's probably still down there, brewing...
* The fact that Fujimoto plans to eventually flood the earth with an explosion of sea life to put an end to the age of humanity. This is mentioned a grand total of once in the movie, and never mentioned again after Ponyo floods his elixirs. He's probably still down there, brewing...
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** The sounds they make don't help matters at all.
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* Ponyo's father, Fujimoto, can be this at times. Especially some of his facial expressions.
* Lisa's driving can be a bit nerve wrecking. Specifically when she's trying to out-drive the incoming waves and rain.
* Lisa's driving can be a bit nerve wrecking. Specifically when she's trying to out-drive the incoming waves and rain.
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*Those [[BuffySpeak dark-water-blob-things]] Fujimoto sends to get Ponyo back from Sosuke. They practically submerge him, and those EYES...
* Also, when the sea piled up...
* Ponyo's sudden shifts from human to half goldfish form sometimes. Especially in the case where she tries to cheer up a baby by getting a little too up close and personal.
* Also, when the sea piled up...
* Ponyo's sudden shifts from human to half goldfish form sometimes. Especially in the case where she tries to cheer up a baby by getting a little too up close and personal.
