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. Baron: The Cat Baron) and is published in English by Viz Media. Hiiragi was commissioned to create the manga equivalent of the short, which is called Baron: The Cat Returns (バロン 猫の男爵 Baron: Neko no Danshaku, lit. 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 what 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. This story was later realized as a manga by Aoi Hiiragi who did the manga "Whisper of the Heart" was based on and then turned into a movie. The story of "The Cat Returns" was inspired by some of the scenes shown in "Whisper of the Heart" namely the ones depicting the fantasy story the main character wrote.
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