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When Marnie Was There (2014)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
Anna visits a seaside village and meets Marnie at a mansion across the marsh. Try this if you liked having your early understanding of a family quietly revised. The film spends enough time with Anna’s feeling that she’s a guest in other people’s homes for the midsummer visits to take on real weight.
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Mirai (2018)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
When Kun’s baby sister comes home, he starts seeing members of his family at ages he couldn’t ordinarily encounter. Choose it for a child-sized account of deciding whether a new person has taken your place. You get small household complaints that change when Kun can imagine his parents and grandparents as children too.
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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Maquia finds a baby while escaping an attack and decides to raise him. Because she ages far more slowly than he does, you can see a relationship run into new questions every time his place in the household changes. Try this for a film about choosing to become family and letting someone grow away from you.
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The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch (2023)
5.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Witch Alyssa raises an abandoned human baby, then finds herself getting mistaken for the child once Viola grows up. Pick this when you want the comic side of the supernatural household, where outsiders’ assumptions have very little to do with who does the parenting and which person has to talk the other out of trouble.
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Violet Evergarden (2018)
8.4/10on IMDb
First aired
Violet becomes a letter writer after the war and helps clients address things they haven’t managed to say in person. Choose it for stories where you spend time with a different family, then see what Violet brings away from the experience. Some episodes are self-contained, while her own uncertainty about the words she last heard runs through the series.
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The aquatope on white sand (2021)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
After leaving her idol work behind, Fuuka takes a job at the aquarium Kukuru manages for her grandfather. You can see why protecting the place gives each girl something different to hold on to. Pick it for friendship growing through everyday responsibility, with attention to what happens when caring about a place can’t keep it open.
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Princess Tutu (2002)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
A duck becomes a ballet student and tries to help a prince recover pieces of his missing heart. You can see why the fairy-tale roles other people are made to play become part of the problem. Try it for the closest match to a curse that changes how a whole group thinks it has to behave, with a darker streak under the dancing.
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