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Whisper is the only Studio Ghibli feature film directed by Yoshifumi Kondou. Although adapted from the manga by Hayao Miyazaki, responsibility for the film’s direction was passed on to Kondou, an animation supervisor on several other Ghibli projects. A few years after Whisper’s release, Kondou died.

Precocious, gifted, utterly dedicated children are abundant in Ghibli films but not often are they both supernaturally powerless and portrayed in an everyday physical environment. With the exception of an aerial fantasy sequence … (read more)