Over the last year, the author's students have become very interested in popular culture from Korea and Japan. In particular, the class liked the films of Hayao Miyazaki, an Oscar-winning director who is considered one of the foremost anime filmmakers. In this article, the author came to an idea while he and the first-grade class were discussing the Miyazaki film "Spirited Away". The author decided that students would create sculptures with elements of Japanese popular culture and transform them into a creature they might find in a surrealist anime feature like "Spirited Away". This article discusses how the class explored art and commerce.