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My Beautiful Girl Mari

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My Beautiful Girl, Mari is a story of two childhood friends, Nam-woo and Jun-ho, who are growing up in a fishing village full of unwanted change. With the discovery of a glowing marble, Nam-woo sometimes finds himself in a lush, dreamlike world, inhabited by a beautiful girl named Mari. With more change inevitable, Nam-woo and Jun-ho struggle to cope with reality, even when tragedy strikes.

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Spirited Away

Alt titles: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi

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Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new home, when they discover an abandoned amusement park. After Chihiro's family mysteriously turn into pigs, she is thrown into a surreal world of magic and fantasy. Join her as she struggles to survive in the bathhouse of the gods, ruled by an evil witch who has stolen not only her name, but her way back to the real world.

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sothis
For a more lavish, plot-driven fantasy world, try out Spirited Away.
XMrNiceguyX
The similarities of those two series are stunning. In both series, the series appears to be nothing more than a slice of life series, but then warps into a fatasy story. while Mari is completely CG animated, Spirited Away is not. So if you don't realy mind the korean dub of Mari or the little CG in Spirited Away, you'll definately enjoy both series.

Platonic Chain

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Platonic Chain consists of short 6 minute episodes completely done with computer graphics. The series explores different facets of human life/interaction through an interesting idea: the presence of a computer program that knows of your most embarassing moments, your likes and dislikes, your ideal diet plan, the routes you take to get places, and more!

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sothis
Platonic Chain and MBGM are both 100% CGI, and have similar character appearances. Granted, MBGM has a bit more of a plot and is not as shallow as Platonic Chain, but I did enjoy both and think that the animation style has a very similar feel.

Only Yesterday

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Taeko is a city-girl, born and raised in Tokyo, who has always held dreams of visiting the countryside. She finally is able to fulfill that dream during a vacation with relatives. Only Yesterday switches from visions of Taeko's 5th grade past, to her present self who is struggling with touch choices and feelings about love, herself, and her future.

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Both films are serious drama oriented animation with fantasy elements. Both films involve adults looking back to transitory periods in their childhood and relating them to their current life. Finally both films take a very realistic approach to storytelling and characterizations.

Princess Mononoke

Alt titles: Mononoke Hime

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With the rise of the Iron Age in feudal Japan, man and nature grow increasingly at odds. As mankind infringes more and more into the kingdom of the beasts, many of the elder animal gods begin to succumb to their rage, cursing themselves as they lash out at rural and urban settlements alike. When a young Ashitaka, hero of his village, is imparted with one of these curses after slaying a crazed god, he forces himself into exile to prevent further harm to his village. As he ventures out into the world, however, he discovers just how dire the straights have become - with man and beast ready to break into all out war, his curse becomes the least of his problems. As both sides teeter dangerously on the side of outright slaughter of one another, Ashitaka sets his own problems aside and, using his charisma and honor, seeks to quell the hatred before it gets beyond repair - but will he be in time or is he simply delaying the inevitable?

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XMrNiceguyX
There was some sort of similar feel in this series. Even though the fantasy world and the mysterious girl is the main point of interest in Princess Mononoke, Mari has it too. There are as well some weird and non existant creatures in both series, which you might enjoy as well. So if you liked the fantasy world and all those weird creatures in Mari, you'll definately enjoy Princess Mononoke. if you have seen Princess Mononoke, however, and are looking for a more realistic series, Mari might suit your tastes. Keep in mind though that Mari is CG animated and dubbbed in Korean where Princess Mononoke is not.

Wonderful Days

Alt titles: Sky Blue

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Surrounded by water and a world of pollution, oppression, and never-ending rain, the city of ECOBAN feeds off of the surrounding pollutants to sustain life on this seemingly last continent on earth. Shua, a man thrown out of the city, misses the blue sky and now fights to cast down light on this cloud covered island, while uncovering figures from his past.

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sothis
Like CGI movies? Check both of these out. Both also are conveniently Korean made, but the characters do look a bit different. In general, I think both had the same sort of formula: beautiful eye candy, but not a huge amount of plot. Anyways, I do think you'd enjoy one if you liked the other.