Cartoons are the genre of movies that children absolutely love. In which, anime is one of the most popular cartoons for children, because of its beautiful, lovely drawings, and good, highly educational movie content. Japanese anime is very diverse in genres, classifying many different ages. To avoid children watching amines that are not appropriate for their age. Parents should supervise, guide or choose for children to watch children's anime. In the treasure trove of Japanese anime there are many good anime for children. If parents do not know what are the best anime for children, in this article I will introduce them to the best Japanese anime for children, let's watch.
1 Spirited Away
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Spirited Away - Official Trailer
- Genre: Children's cartoon, Adventure, Mystery
Director: Hayao Miyazaki.
Producer: Toshio Suzuki.
Hayao Miyazaki.
Plot: Hayao Miyazaki.
Cast: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Iirano, Mari Natsuki, Takeshi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tsunehiko Kamijō, Takehiko Ono, Bunta Sugawara.
Release year: 2001.
Duration: 125 minutes.
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It is the most successful anime film in Japanese history with a worldwide gross of $274 million and received a lot of praise. This is the only work from the land of cherry blossoms to win the Best Animated Feature Award of the Oscar. The film is also in the top 100 best movies of all time. Spirited Away is the adventure journey of 10-year-old Chihiro in the land of spirits. Miyazaki has created a world with many characters with depth, many events and incredible thrilling stories. The film is one of the most fantastical and beautiful dreams that Miyazaki in particular and Studio Ghibli in general bring to many generations, not just children.
2 Howl's Moving Castle
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Howl's Moving Castle - Official Trailer
Genre: Adventure, Family, Kids cartoon
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki
Voiced by: Takuya Kimura, Chieko Baishō, Tatsuya Gashūin,...
Release year: 2004
Duration: 119 minutes
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Howl's Moving Castle is a Japanese animated children's film released 3 years after Spirited Away. The film is adapted from the famous novel of the same name by author Diana Wynne Jones. This animated film is the brainchild of Studio Ghibli, molded by the hands of talented screenwriter Hayao Miyazaki. Not to be outdone by his brother Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle – Howl's Flying Castle is also recognized as one of the most successful Japanese animated films in history with a gross of $ 231.7 million. In 2004, at the 78th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for the category "Best Animated Feature".
The film tells the story of a young girl named Sophie – a hatmaker who is enchanted by a witch to turn into a 90-year-old woman with gray hair. Sophie is forced to leave her family and find a way to break the curse she wears. The girl is also very strong, intrepid, ignoring fears to start a new journey. Along the way, Sophie meets the wizard Howl at a giant flying castle. Since then, they adventure together to new lands and develop feelings for each other.
The film is about 2 people with different personalities, full of flaws but strangely harmonious and always trying for big goals. In the movie, the two main characters always give loving actions and words to each other. Love is sometimes about sacrificing yourself so that your loved one can be happy. Sophie's attempt to break the curse is also her process of recovering the lost heart of the magician Howl.
3 Ponyo
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Ponyo - Official Trailer
Genre: Cartoons for children
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yûki Amami, George Tokoro, Yuria Nara
Release year: 2008
Duration: 101 minutes
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This Japanese animated film for children was made by Studio Ghibli. The story revolves around a mermaid named Ponyo, the daughter of the king of the sea and her mother who is the goddess of the ocean. During one of her ascents, she becomes entangled in a bottle and is rescued by young Sousuke. Sousuke takes Ponyo in and she helps heal the boy's hand. While licking Sousuke's wound, Ponyo accidentally swallowed human blood and became strong, able to transform his limbs at will, but at the same time his special powers disappeared.
Little Ponyo Fishman attracts viewers by its cute drawings, gentle clear colors, simple and extremely lovely story. The film successfully shows the cherished, cherished love between two 5-year-old children. Director Hayao Miyazaki created something special in the film: the world of love and always loved, the world of honesty without calculations, the world of children with the simplest and truest, clearest values.
4 The Cat Returns
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The Cat Returns - Official Trailer
Genre: Children's cartoons, Adventure
Director: Hiroyuki Morita
Cast: Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda
Production year: 2002
Duration: 75 minutes
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It is a Japanese animated children's film produced by Ghibli. The story follows little Haru, a shy, shy 17-year-old high school girl. On one occasion, Haru accidentally saves a cat from a truck while crossing the street. But unexpectedly, that cat is the prince of the Cat kingdom. To repay her, the king decides that the whole kingdom will do everything in return for Haru's kindness. Unfortunately, the world of cats does not have any suitable items for her, moreover, having to marry the Prince of Cats leads to many funny situations. The movie is very cute, suitable for children with many colorful cats along with many funny stories that are extremely attractive to viewers.
5 The Secret World of Arrietty
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The Secret World of Arrietty Official Trailer
Genre: Cartoon, Fantasy
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Cast: Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Shinobu Otake
Release year: 2010
Duration: 94 minutes
Country: Japan
Studio: Studio Ghibli
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This Japanese animated film for children won the "Animation of the Year" award at the 34th Japan Academy Awards. The film is based on Mary Norton's The Borrowers (1952). The Secret World Of Arrietty grossed heavily in the Japanese market in 2010.
The film tells the story of tiny people called The Borrowers and they are living in the basement of a family's house. These tiny people lived off the objects of the human world, gradually building their own small houses. In that world, little Arrietty is trained in life skills by her father and absolutely must not let humanity know, otherwise she will be in danger. But when she met a real human boy, Arrietty forgot all the instructions her father had told her.
The story of little Arrietty's courage is the impetus for the resilience of unfortunate people. Thanks to his meeting with Arrietty, young Sho faces his surgery strongly. Arrietty's story is a combination of the innocence of children and the perspective of adults with a completely different angle, helping the film touch the hearts of viewers. This is a Japanese anime for children that parents should show their children.
6 A letter to Momo
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A Letter To Momo (2011) - Official Trailer
Genre: Animated, Family, Romance
Director: Hiroyuki Okiura
Cast: Cho, Karen Miyama, Toshiyuki Nishida
Release year: 2011
Duration: 120 minutes
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This Japanese animation for children was awarded Excellence at the 2011 Japan Traditional Arts Festival for the anime film category. The plot of the film is about 11-year-old Momo and her mother moving to live on a small island. She has to get used to her new life after her father suddenly dies in a traffic accident.
She came here with the pain of losing her father, the regret of arguing with him the last time they met. Momo's life becomes even more complicated when 3 Yokai appear around her. These are monstrous-looking characters sent down to protect her, each with their own personality and causing more trouble than helping. Gradually, Momo realizes that their appearance is related to the letter left by her father.
Through the image of guardian gods, along with the image of the letter that appears at the end of the film, A Letter To Momo wants to convey a message that: Our bodies, even though they are dead, are still in the far heavens always watching over and supporting those we love. Therefore, in any difficult situation, you must try to overcome and live happily, so that your loved ones in heaven can be assured.
7 Wolf Children
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Wolf Children Trailer
Genre: Animated, Romance, Family
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Haru Kuroki, Amon Kabe, Megumi Hayashibara, Hajime Inoue, Shôta Somethini,...
Release year: 2012
Duration: 117 minutes
Producer: Studio Chizu
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Wolf Children is a Japanese anime for children that appears next on this list. It tells the story of student Hana who meets and falls in love with a werewolf. After marriage, Hana gives birth to two werewolf babies, an older sister named Yuki and a younger brother named Ame. Unfortunately later, her husband died while feeding 2 young children. Hana decides to move to a remote town far from the city, keeps it a secret, and decides to raise her children well.
She patiently cares for them, protects them from danger while teaching them about the world around them and adopting their true nature, whether human or wolf. Later the two children grew up and made their own choices. The older sister goes to school, and the younger brother Ame becomes a wolf living in the deep wilderness. The film portrays the image of a noble mother and a different acceptance in each person.
8 The Tale of Princess Kaguya
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The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya - Official Trailer
Genre: Animated, Mythology
Director: Isao Takahata
Cast: Aki Asakura, Kengo Kôra, Takeo Chii, Nobuko Miyamoto, Atsuko Takahata
Release year: 2013
Duration: 137 minutes
Producer: Studio Ghibli, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
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Princess Kaguya is a Japanese anime for children that is both rustic and deep. It received a Best Animated Feature nomination at the 87th Academy Awards. The story is about an old man named Okina who accidentally saves a tiny baby from a bamboo burn. He took her home and took good care of her with his wife. She was not an ordinary person, so she grew up fast, matured early and became more and more beautiful. Thanks to that pretty, she attracts many boys who want to marry her.
Later, during a visit to the forest, the old man Okina discovered a lot of gold in the bamboo grove, from which his family decided to move to the capital and turn Kaguya into a real princess. Later, many events happened, she returned to the Moon, where she was born but still has many regrets with tears.
9 My Neighbor Totoro - Hàng Xóm Của Tôi Là Totoro
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My Neighbor Totoro - Official Trailer
My Neighbor Totoro, also known in Vietnamese as My Neighbor Totoro, is a Ghibli film. The new house they moved into was rumored to be haunted. Sisters Satsuki (11) and Mei (4) are curious about it, where they get to know the kind old neighbor and her nephew Kanta. Once running in the forest near her home, Mei stumbles upon the satyr there, a cute big-bellied beast who she calls him Totoro after the beast in her picture book. After hearing Mei tell her about meeting Totoro, her older sister Satsuki also wishes to meet Totoro. And the sisters meet Totoro again when they go to the bus stop to wait for their father. From there their lives begin to change and their amazing adventures begin...
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Toshiyuki Amagasa
Genre: Animation
Duration: 90 minutes
Release year: 1988
Country: Japan
10 Tekkonkinkreet
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Tekkonkinkreet Trailer
- Genre: Coming-of-age, Surreal fantasy, Urban fantasy
Director: Michael Arias
Producer: Eiko Tanaka, Eiichi Kamagata, Masao Teshima, Fumio Ueda
Written by: Anthony Weintraub
Studio: Studio 4°C
Aired: December 22, 2006
Duration/episode: 110 minutes
Country: Japan
What it's about: Based on the short manga series of the same name, Tekkonkinkreet, Michael's directorial debut, won multiple awards in terms of content and art. The film opens up a new anime style that is both faithful to simple and delicate and deep 2D character creations. The two children in the film are like two blades of grass that shake each other to survive at the bottom of society despite being forgotten. Their lives are in turmoil when aliens appear claiming to want to change the flesh of the town. Kuro and Shiro enter a war with new dark forces to protect their town, but it is actually a war between light and darkness in humans.
11 Kiki’s Delivery Service
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Kiki's Delivery Service - Official Trailer
- Genre: Odd Anime, Romance, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Magic,
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Country: Japan,
Duration: 102 minutes
Rating: G - All ages
Studio: Studio Ghibli
Release year: Summer - 1989
What it's about: Kiki's Delivery Service, also known in Japan as Majo no Takkyūbin, is an anime film made by Studio Ghibli. The plot follows a trainee witch girl – old enough to leave her family and go to another place, where she must live alone for a year so that she can become a real witch. Kiki departs for the evening with everyone cheering, uses her mother's broom, and brings her cat Jiji and some essentials. Contrary to the radio's weather forecast, it rained heavily that night, and Kiki and Jiji had to take shelter in a train. The next morning, Kiki and Jiji wake up to find themselves lying in the grass storage for the cows to eat. They left the train car and began their journey to find a place to live...
12 The Boy and the Beast
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The Boy and The Beast - Official Trailer
- Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Cast: Kumiko Aso, Morgan Berry, Bryn Apprill
Genre: Action, Animated, Fantasy, Adventure
Duration: 119 minutes
Country: Japan
Release year: 2015
What it's about: The story revolves around the journey of a 9-year-old boy Ren when his mother dies and is abandoned by his father. The boy with a strong and unruly nature decides to run away from home. While wandering Shibuya, Ren gets lost in the parallel world of Juutengai, where giant super beasts can talk like humans. There, he meets Kumatetsu (Kōji Yakusho), a bear-shaped spirit beast who is searching for a heir. The Boy and the Beast received critical acclaim for its engaging graphics and convincing storytelling. Critics in the land of cherry blossoms highly appreciated the film and compared The Boy and the Beast to the classic story The Jungle Boy or the magic similar to the Harry Potter series, with the center also the story of growing up.
13 Mirai no Mirai, Mirai of the Future
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Mirai no Mirai, Mirai of the Future Trailer
- Genre: Children's films
Director: Mamoru Honsoda
Country: Japan,
Aired: Spring - 2018
Duration: 98 minutes
What it's about: From the most pampered wayward boy in the family, Kun finds his position shaken when his younger sister, Mirai, is born. Jealousy mixed with shame, the 4-year-old felt his parents' love for him diminish and he was completely overwhelmed with having to become a brother. Things seem more complicated when Kun stumbles upon a strange portal that takes him to meet his mother when she was a little girl and his sister, Mirai, a teenage student. Through so many adventures, will Kun gradually change himself and learn how to become a true older brother?
