If you're looking for anime similar to Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess, you might like these titles.
After being rushed to a flight by her mother at the airport, a young girl loses her most prized possession, a plush toy named Daru. Awakened by the girl's tears, Daru sets forth on a grand adventure to find her, crossing continents, communicating with animals and statues alike, and even making a new caterpillar friend along the way. As time passes, will Daru ever be reunited with his beloved owner?
Two cute shorts about an unconventional hero (a stuffed toy and an egg) as they go on a grand adventure. Both are equally as charming.
Both are very beautiful stories around toylike protagonist who are chasing their wishes. Either esceping his cruel master or finding his loved lost master. Very heartwarming stories with beautiful fiting music.
Both of these adorable short films follow a small and unlikely protagonist on an big adventure. If you liked one, you'd probably enjoy the other.
Two dialogueless shorts about tiny things going on an adventure. Either due to curiousity or because they wish to come home.
Two cute shorts about tiny, adorable things that have an adventure running from or to someone, with heartwarming stories and beautiful music.
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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Pandane was definitely cut from the same cloth as Spirited Away. Baba Yaga and the witch from SA are pretty much identical, character design-wise. Both have super cute magical characters, a whimsical and fun plot, and a grand adventure. If you liked one you pretty much guaranteed will like the other.
Besides the stellar Studio Ghibli quaity, these anime share elements of magic, fantasy, and anthropomorphism.
The responsible Sophie led a relatively normal life, safe within the walls of the hat shop in which she works; for outside, it is rumored, the evil wizard Howl roams the land in his mobile black castle. After a chance and mystical encounter, poor Sophie finds herself transformed by a witch's spell which makes her appear to be an old woman, and thus embarks on an adventure to find Howl’s castle and put an end to her curse. A mystical world of talking flames, sentient scarecrows, and magic aplenty awaits those who seek the legendary Howl...
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Besides the stellar Studio Ghibli quaity, these anime share elements of magic, fantasy, and anthropomorphism.
A group of elementary school children play in their classroom, imagining that they are on a boat in the ocean. This fantasy becomes reality, and soon all the students find themselves stranded in the deep blue sea, looking for their own Moby Dick. Some of the kids want to harpoon the whale, others want to take its picture, and many of the kids are afraid and just want to return home.
A boy named Yuji and his friend Gick, a rabbit, find a walking stick. To decide which of them will keep it, they try a foot race, a long jump and sumo wrestling, but each ends up in a tie. Out of ideas, the children go to Gick's Granny for help. Granny tells the children to go treasure hunting. Who will be the winner?
The annual Star Festival to honor the stars that bring life is drawing nearer. Anpanman finds an abandoned doll who is brought to life by a Star of Life. The doll, now named Dolly, spends all of her time having fun, convinced that enjoying oneself is the meaning of life. However, her Star of Life is starting to disappear, and Baikinman builds a huge robot inspired by memories of his own birth.
When a comet that comes back once in a hundred years, Dream Suisei, is travelling by Earth, everybody sees the same dream of a foreign world. Melonpanna saves an egg from being crushed and wakes up to find out that the egg has followed her home. A kitten hatches from the egg, and Melonpanna names her Nyanii and starts caring for her. But soon they find out that Nyanii is needed back on Dream Suisei, and if she doesn't return there, she will vanish. Melonpanna struggles with the upcoming hard goodbyes, but the real trouble starts when Baikinman accidentally awakens the evil monster Muuma.