Ponyo English Sub & Dub

About Ponyo

If you are hunting for a new adventure series, Ponyo (Gake no Ue no Ponyo) deserves a look (2008). The setup goes like this. At its core: A goldfish sneaks away from home and floats off on the back of a jellyfish. After getting stuck in a glass jar, she drifts to the shore where she is freed by Sousuke, a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother Lisa in a house by the sea while his father Koichi works on a fishing boat.

From there, after healing a cut on Sousuke's finger by licking it, the goldfish is named Ponyo by her new friend.Unknown to Sousuke, Ponyo already has a name and a family. Her father Fujimoto, a sorcerer who forsook his humanity to live underwater, searches frantically for his daughter Brunhilde. When found and captured, Ponyo rejects her birth name and declares that she wants to become a human.

In an adventure series like this, exploration, new locations and a steady sense of momentum drive the story. This one is best suited to anyone who enjoys travel-the-world storytelling.

Production & Appeal

Studio Ghibli is the studio behind Ponyo, and its direction shapes everything from character design to motion. Within the adventure category, exploration, new locations and a steady sense of momentum drive the story. A 7.9/10 score points to a dependable, well-liked series. Released in 2008, it competed with that season's other new series for attention.