Lisa

Full name: Lisa
Race: Human
Age: 26 Years.
Height: 5'6" / 1.72 cm.
Gender: Female.
Eye color: Black.
Hair color: Dark brown.
Occupation: Caregiver.

Lisa is a young woman with slightly tanned skin and average height. She has black eyes and dark brown/black hair styled in a bob, similar to Sosuke's. For most of the movie, she wears a dark blue shirt and white pants, and wears a pink apron when she is at home.

Lisa is a loving, self-sufficient, and strong-willed woman. She is extremely headstrong and brave, bordering on dangerous when it comes to driving, but always comes out on top at the right moment. She seems to be a local legend for this. Responsible and wise, she tries to raise Sosuke as best she can, teaching him many seafaring skills such as Morse code with signal lamps. She is still young and full of energy, missing her husband and getting angry when he doesn't keep his promises to come home, but she doesn't hold a grudge. She is also a hero, feeling compelled to help the elders even if it means leaving her children temporarily, and accepts Ponyo as her own without question. She is an exceptional mother and a great woman.

Lisa works at a nursing home in a small seaside town, right next to her son Sosuke's kindergarten. She makes a living caring for the elderly while her husband Koichi works as a boat captain. One day, her son finds a goldfish trapped in a bottle and she allows him to take care of it without much thought. As they drive along the mountain roads, we discover that Lisa is a crazy driver, racing a robber boat to get to work on time. Shortly after dropping Sosuke off, he gets into trouble and Lisa saves him from the water after Ponyo is snatched away from him by her father and his water spirits.

When they get home later that day, she encourages a sad Sosuke to leave his green bucket as a signal for Ponyo to come home. Her husband ends up needing to make another shipping trip and can't get home as promised, which upsets Lisa. She tells him to leave in morse code with the signal lamp at home. Sosuke encourages her this time and she is back in a good mood.

The next day, Ponyo returns in the form of a child after opening the power well and causing the ocean and weather to become dangerous, tsunami-sized waves and power outages forcing Lisa and Sosuke to go home early. Lisa seems to not know the concept of fear as she races against the ocean itself to return to her home on the high hillside out of reach. When Ponyo appears, Lisa accepts her just as she did when she was a fish, without a second thought (even when she says that her father was an evil wizard and that she swam away from her home), and treats her like her own daughter. She feeds Sosuke and Ponyo honey tea and ramen, turning the terrifying storm into a fun game, distracting them with simple tasks like turning on the generator and setting up the radio antenna to communicate with ships at sea.

When Ponyo falls asleep and the sea calms down, Lisa leaves Sosuke in charge of the house and caring for Ponyo to go help any elderly people who may be stranded.

Towards the end of the film we find Lisa again, in a conference with the Sea Goddess, Granmamare. According to the elders, they had been talking all night and day. Granmamare seems to have explained to Lisa the weight of her responsibility if her son manages to save Ponyo and swear to love her forever. She would be Lisa's daughter now, and future daughter-in-law after Ponyo became human, after all.

After the balance of nature is restored, Lisa promises Granmamare to take care of Ponyo, and Lisa's husband returns from the ocean with all the other ships.

•Sosuke: Lisa's son.
•Koichi: Lisa's husband.
•Ponyo: Lisa's adopted daughter.

Being an ordinary human, she has no special abilities.