Anna Sasaki is an introverted 12-year-old girl living in Sapporo with foster parents, Yoriko and her husband. She believes that there is an invisible magic circle in the world and that she is on the outside away from everyone else. One day at school, she collapses from an asthma attack and is brought home. Anna's friends bring her backpack to the house and when Yoriko asks if Anna is doing all right they tell her Anna's fine, she's just doesn't talk a lot. After the girls leave, Yoriko discusses with Anna's doctor about her recently withdrawn attitude as she no longer smiles or talks about her friends at school. It is probably because of two reasons, her dad has to travel a lot for work so Yoriko is raising her on her own, but the other big reason is because she and Yoriko are not blood related. The doctor actually recommends sending her to spend the summer with Setsu and Kiyomasa Oiwa, relatives of Yoriko, in the rural, seaside town of Kissakibetsu, where the air is clear, located between Kushiro and Nemuro. The town where the Oiwas' live in used to have lots of people visit, but after a highway was built, people stopped passing through. While driving Anna notices a silo on the hill, according to Kiyomasa it's used to store feed on farms but that silo hasn't been used in ages, in fact it's a place where all the local kids dare each other to go in and says it's a good idea to avoid the place all together. When they arrive at the house, Anna thinks the house is nice, with their children all grown up, Anna will be sleeping in their daughter's room, who is now working in Tokyo as a Yoga instructor.
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After getting settled, Anna goes for a walk and sees an abandoned mansion across a salt marsh, she goes to investigate it. She looks around, finding it familiar, she goes to get a closer look. She realizes that no one has lived there in ages as the place is falling apart. While up at the house she doses off but when she realizes it's sunset, she leaves but gets trapped there by the rising tide until she is found by Toichi, a taciturn old fisherman, who brings her back to the pier with his rowboat. During that time, Anna thinks she sees lights in the house turning on, but seconds later, it is only the sunlight. When she returns to the Oiwa's, Setsu tells her that the mansion used to be a vacation home for some foreigners, but that it has been empty for a long time while Kiyomasa warns her to stay away from the mansion since he believes that the mansion and the silo are haunted. Starting that night, Anna dreams of seeing a blonde girl in the mansion.
Over the next few weeks she goes to sketch the mansion and every night she sees the girl a little more. One day before she goes out Setsu takes her to meet their neighbor, Mrs. Kadoya who has wanted to meet Anna and also has a daughter named Nobuko, who is around her age. The women decide that the girls should go the Tanabata Festival together and Setsu lets Anna borrow her daughter's old yukata but Anna is not pleased by this since she hates festivals. On the night of the Tanabata festival, Anna gets into an argument with Nobuko and runs away to the mansion across the marsh where she meets Marnie, the blonde girl. The two agree to keep their meeting secret and they meet again on the next evening. Anna returns at high tide, she and Marnie are properly introduced. Marnie helps Anna with rowing and they have some cookies and juice. They play together and get to know each other (slowly, so they won't find out too much). Afterwards Marnie invites Anna to a party at the mansion, which is filled with guests. Marnie disguises Anna to get her into the party. Marnie stole her Nan's shawl, and when the Nan, Georgina Gordon tells her it's bedtime, they lure Nan upstairs and lock her in Marnie's room and go back downstairs. Marnie introduces Anna (as a flower girl) to her parents and the guests, but Anna's shyness gets the better of her and she goes somewhere else in the room. While there, Anna sees Marnie dancing with a boy named Kazuhiko. Later, some townspeople find Anna asleep by the post office and take her back to the Oiwa's. The next day, Anna returns to the mansion to find her missing shoe, but the mansion appears abandoned and dilapidated again.
The second reason has its origin when he was still working on the storyboard of Princess Kaguya with Takahata. Yonebayashi then confessed to him that when he worked on his storyboards, sometimes, he could not judge if they were good or not. He was a little envious of Isao Takahata, assisted by a person to give him his opinion. Nishimura therefore agreed and immediately began working on the storyboard of Marnie with Yonebayashi. So he worked on Takahata's film while starting to work on Marnie. Late at night, he joined Maro at the apartment in which the director had isolated himself to work.
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