Ponyo, the Sequel

She gave up everything to be with him, but she was happy to do it. He loved her, and she loved him. In the years that followed, her love only grew as they did. But he became restless, and cast his affection upon others. She eventually realized that his love for her was no more than that of a master to his beloved pet. The heavens shook with her turmoil, but she could not escape – she had nowhere to go.

Her sisters, wanting to ease her sorrow, begged their powerful father for help. They brought her a dagger, dipped in the magic of the sea. With it, she could regain her powers and rejoin her family by killing her true love and bathing in his blood.

She crept into his room, remembering all that he had promised and withheld. She allowed her anger to course through her veins, control her actions, overwhelm her guilt. . . but even as she held the knife to his heart, she could not bring herself to destroy him.

Consumed by grief, she flung herself into the ocean and dissipated into the foam on the waves. . .



Before I'd ever seen it, someone told me that Ponyo was like the Hans Christian Andersen version of The Little Mermaid. And while my first viewing of Ponyo was, *ahem,* pleasant, I felt like the movie ended too soon. The original story of The Little Mermaid was about unrequited love and betrayal. A tragedy. So, I decided to finish out the story in my own mind and turn it into a comic!

I will always enjoy Ponyo, but to me, this is how the story ends.