Sharon Apple invades Ponyo

Ok, in my last post I mentioned falling asleep while watching Ponyo and also the dvd skipping to the end where it showed Ponyo's mother. Well get this--Ponyo's mother "Gran Mamare" is none other than Sharon Apple! Yes, that's right--Sharon Apple from Macross Plus! I have the pics to prove it. See below for the comparison of similarities and judge for yourself:

Gran Mamare commandeers a fishing vessel


Sharon Apple commandeers SDF-1 Macross and Ghost UAV


Gran Mamare appears to her man


Sharon Apple appears to her man Isamu

and Myung

and Neuman

and Isamu again



Ponyo swimming in rays of sunlight


Sharon Apple projecting rapturous light and anti-aircraft barrage

getting all kawaii

We were trying to watch Ponyo last night and 10 minutes into it, the boy found her in the jar, the dvd skipped and we were baffled as suddenly showed all these old people and then Ponyo turned into a girl--yeah I spoiled it. So we tried playing the disc in the PS2 and it worked fine except we all fell asleep. There's a part at the end where it shows this fairy apparition lady who looked remarkably similar to Sharon Apple's evil ghost projection at the end of Macross Plus. I started to google for comparisons but ended up finding all this other cute stuff instead.