[DeepL Translation - needs review] Anna is a young girl who has left her foster parents and has been left in the care of an elderly couple in a seaside village. She makes friends with a mysterious girl of the same age, Marnie, and they play together every day. However, no one in the village knows about Marnie.
(Translator: DeepL)
If you like the movie you will like the book
When I re-watched the movie this January, I first thought about reading the book. Then when I finally had it in hand I wondered if it would be as easy as I hoped, as I saw it was not a full furigana book. But after starting, it turned out that only the easy kanji were without furigana and the text was in fact kanji-sparce, the way 魔女の宅急便 is.
This made the text far easier than I feared. But as I understand this might not be the case for more kanji-affine learners. There are, of course some more