Over a nine-month period he translated Hiiragi's Baron story into 525 pages of storyboards for what was to be The Cat Returns. Responsibility was given to Hiroyuki Morita, who had started as an animator in 1999 for the film My Neighbors the Yamadas. Miyazaki then took the existing work done by the "Cat Project" and used it as testing for future Ghibli directors, the short was now to be 45 minutes long. The theme park later canceled the project. Hiiragi was commissioned to create the manga equivalent of the short, which is called Baron: The Cat Returns. Hayao Miyazaki wanted three key elements to feature in the short, these were the Baron, Muta (Moon) and a mysterious antique shop. Studio Ghibli received a request from a Japanese theme park to create a 20-minute short starring cats. The Cat Returns began as the "Cat Project" in 1999. Although the girl's life had no magical elements, the film featured short fantasy scenes depicting that the girl was writing of the Baron, a character of her novel, which were so popular that an indirect sequel was made, featuring the Baron and another girl, a high school student, named Haru. In 1995, Studio Ghibli released a film entitled Whisper of the Heart, based on a manga by Aoi Hiiragi, of a girl writing a fantasy novel. The Cat Returns is an animation movie produced by Studio Ghibli, and directed by Hiroyuki Morita, in 2002.
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