Ponyo is a goldfish?

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machtyn — 15 years ago(February 01, 2011 06:45 AM)

True, but to a 5 year old, a every fish is a gold fish or every horse, donkey, mule is a horse, etc.
Sure this doesn't hold up, because he starts calling out the names of the prehistoric fish, and even a 5 year-old living on the sea will know some classes of fish; but, perhaps, never having seen a goldfish (being a fresh water fish), it was the best his 5 year-old mind could come up with.

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cherry_blossoms_19 — 14 years ago(April 21, 2011 11:46 PM)

she looked nothing like a goldfish..
and I'd be freaking out if one of mine started to look like a human O.O

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lord_kobel — 12 years ago(April 17, 2013 01:55 PM)

I thought they knew what colour she was because she kept peeking out of the bucket

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potatopuncherpreacher — 15 years ago(May 29, 2010 08:12 AM)

agreed, ponyo had no resemblance to a goldfish whatsoever-apart from the fact that she bore a redish-orange colour. if i saw something like that my first impression would be that of a miniatured swimming dress with a strange humanoid face perched disproportionately on the top-and then run away, screaming 'the apocalypse has arrived!!!!!'.
the movies actors have starred in should be put in alphabetical, instead of chronological order.

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craig-353 — 15 years ago(May 30, 2010 01:45 AM)

I suppose thats what you get when you cross a sea goddess with a "used to be human but now hes not" water wizard.

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kinocrit — 15 years ago(October 02, 2010 11:10 AM)

One of the old ladies, I believe her name was Toki, was freaked out when she saw Ponyo. In the sub she actually mentioned the weird face.

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NotEven_TheRain — 15 years ago(January 24, 2011 07:02 PM)

I thought Ponyo was maybe older, that's why she was different than her sisters. As for her being a goldfish, remember the boy was the one who called her that. To a five-year-old, maybe she looked like a goldfish.

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dethmaul-1 — 15 years ago(March 17, 2011 11:19 PM)

Well, I always justified it as - everything else is 'cartoony' and 'generalized'. The humans aren't perfect humans. So the little fishy is just a 'snapshot' of a goldfish. I could see her being a goldfish.
In the end, Okonkwo threw the Cat.

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Fawlty-3 — 14 years ago(July 07, 2011 08:01 PM)

I HATED the way this "goldfish" looked, and that up until the old lady freaked out, everyone apparently thought that it looked like a normal fish.
But clearly, with this old ladies reaction, it was NOT a normal fish, and wasn't meant to be.
This was not a great movie in general, but I think it could have been a LOT better if Ponyo (and her sisters) had actually looked like fish instead of like weird human embryos in dresses.

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xenopharb — 14 years ago(August 29, 2011 12:16 AM)

Ponyo was not a goldfish; she was a sea maiden.
This film is a Miyazaki spin on The Little Mermaid tale. I do not see people complaining that Ariel, in Disney's Little Mermaid, did not look like a fish.
Ponyo is a sweet tale. Taking it too seriously sort of ruins the magic.