Ponyo's parents, Fujimoto & Granmamare, are a gender-bent version of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, "The Little Mermaid." ...

I share my name with a popular Disney character, but I wasn't named after the mermaid. My parents said ... than a year after the world's favorite human-loving sea creature made a splash in movie ...

One of the original mermaid sculptures. “A mermaid is a mermaid and it’s always going to represent the female form and honouring the mermaid sculptures was the central part of the brief,” he ...