Fujimoto

Fujimoto
Kanji	ﾌｼﾞﾓﾄ (藤本)
Romaji	Fujimoto
Feature films	Ponyo
Gender	Male
Age	About 40 years old
Occupation	The Sea Sorcerer
Affiliation	Fujimoto's Underwater Lair
Relatives	Granmamare (Wife) Ponyo (Eldest daughter) Ponyo's Sisters (Younger daughters)
Voice	Joji Tokoro (Japanese) Liam Neeson (English) Just Meijer (Dutch) Jorrit Ruijs (Dutch) Alexander Gruzdev (Russian) Johnny Ruski Peña (Spanish)

“

Respect your father! —Fujimoto to his daughter, Ponyo

”

Fujimoto (藤本, Fujimoto) is the father of Ponyo in Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea. Fujimoto is voiced by Joji Tokoro in the Japanese and Liam Neeson in the English version. 

Film

After Ponyo snuck away from her home at sea, Fujimoto catches up with her and finds that she was already in Sosuke's care. Fearing and resenting humans, he was desperate to get her back. When coming directly onto land (using pure ocean water to keep him from drying out) didn't work, he used his water spirits to find and capture Ponyo for him. Fujimoto later retrieves Ponyo and brings her back to his underwater home.

Fujimoto discovers Ponyo has converted from a fish to a human, much to his dismay.

Fujimoto was too late, however, Ponyo had already tasted human blood and food. Ponyo defies Fujimoto, proclaiming her love for the human boy Sosuke and her desire to become human, exhibiting her powerful magical capabilities inherited from her parents to begin to change into a little girl. Fujimoto was able to temporarily stop her from using her magic to transform into a human by using his potions to boost his own power.

It is revealed that Fujimoto has been caretaker of the ocean for a very long time, and has been making potions to eventually restore the ocean to a pre-Cambrian age of power. He takes one drop of the potion, which appears to restore some of his youth and vigor.

Then, he has to meet Granmamare, his wife and goddess of the sea. Relenting to her wish to allow Ponyo to become human, he goes out of his way to collect Sosuke's mother and the senior citizens to witness the event before finally bringing Sosuke and Toki to the underwater garden. He is still hopeful that Ponyo will stay asleep, and tries to trick Sosuke into "running off" with him, after Sosuke runs to Toki instead, Ponyo's sisters convince Fujimoto to let Ponyo and Sosuke go free to their fate.

Fujimoto relents once more and releases them from his water spirits, letting them float safely into the sea urchin dome. The balance of nature is restored with Sosuke's promise, and Fujimoto returns Sosuke's boat, apologizing for everything. Sosuke shakes his hand, and Fujimoto bids him take care of his daughter. Sosuke nods, and Fujimoto, resigned, turns to watch them go greet their father as he returns to his ship.

Appearance

Fujimoto is 196cm tall (6'5 ft), an incredibly beautiful man with a tired face and sleepy eyes. You can recognize him by the blue shadows on his eyes, pink stripes on his cheeks and gold jewelry. He also wears a blue-striped jacket and a bardic robe.

Personality

Fujimoto is a dignified sort of character that demands respect but is also prone to becoming flustered. As a human turned caretaker of the sea, he resents his former kind for being so dirty and polluting his home. Fujimoto is very concerned with order and control, but he is not cruel; Granmamare convinces him sometimes things must happen outside of his control in order for others, like his daughter Ponyo, to be happy. He loves his daughters and wants them to be safe. Fujimoto carries himself with dignity even in defeat.

Abilities

He is a talented potion maker, sorcerer, scientist and guardian of sea life.

• Able to make potions that can increase the level of life in the ocean, or the strength of his own magic. 
• Extremely knowledgeable about sea life and magic.
• Avid magical abilities, also seen in his daughters. 
• Appears to be able to breathe underwater, with or without a protective bubble.
• Long life span - Despite claiming to be human once, Fujimoto seems to have lived a very long life with a slowed-down aging process, and still very agile despite appearing 40 years old.

Relationships

Ponyo

Ponyo is Fujimoto's oldest daughter. Like the rest of her siblings, Ponyo does not seem to respect her father, nor care about his wishes, which is why she chose to run away from home. This is most likely because of Fujimoto's overprotective behavior.

That being said, Fujimoto himself really does love and care about his daughter but has a lot working against him. He is concerned when Ponyo goes missing, tries to explain to her why the surface world is dangerous and why her becoming human would throw the world off-balance. He is seems to be the only one who shows concern over the possibility of Ponyo turning to seafoam, and it can also be assumed that he is the one doing most of the parenting by himself. He seems to have been the one to pick out Ponyo's birthname, something her mother didn't seem to know in the first place, and he even claims he and his wife have not seen each other in a long long time.

Ponyo's Sisters

Ponyo's sisters are Fujimoto's younger daughters. Like Ponyo, they do not seem to respect their father very much. Ponyo's sisters help her escape from the bubble Fujimoto puts her in and they also cause Fujimoto to fall into the water while he is trying to find Ponyo in Sosuke's home. It can be assumed that Fujimoto is just as protective of his other daughters as he is with Ponyo, however his other daughters do not seem to be as rebellious as Ponyo up until Ponyo runs away.

Granmamare

Fujimoto's wife. He somewhat nervous and embarrassed when she decides to visit. He must have wanted to solve his problems on his own.

Trivia

• He can be over protective of his daughters in the film, but he just wants what’s best for them.
• According to him, he was once a human, but is not anymore.

Gallery

very beautiful, very powerful