Kuchiba (Ghibli Movie Idea)

Premise
An 12-year-old orphan gets turned into a kitsune, in a world inhabited by Kitsunes, after She goes past a vermilion gate in one of Kyoto’s Inari shrines.

Full Story
One day in June, a 12-year-old girl named Aisa visits the Fushimi Inari Shrine, to make a wish with an Ema and write it down (Even though the audience does not see the written wish). Aisa, while exploring the shrine, notices some of the torii gates’ paint peeling off from age, but is forced to run when a red fox scares her. Later that night, Aisa unpacks her paint tubes from her backpack, mixes a few droplets of red and yellow to make a vermilion color and paint on the gate’s peeled areas. Once Aisa completes painting the gate, however, the same fox attacks Aisa but, a brownish fox tackles the red fox, as the former thanks Aisa as she runs away, but toward the Torii gate, as Aisa passes out.

After waking up, Aisa, explores a forest and has turned into, a brownish Kitsune, a fox-like yokai that use mythical powers, be it for good or bad intentions. Aisa, surprised that She’s a Kitsune, goes to a village in hopes of returning to human form, but the villagers (who happen to be Kitsune) refuse to help her, due to Her blue eyes. One Kitsune goes to kill Aiko, but another brownish fox protects and helps her escape.