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My Neighbor Totoro

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My Neighbor Totoro	comment	My Neighbor Totoro (Japanese: ã�¨ã�ªã‚Šã�®ãƒˆãƒˆãƒ/Tonari no Totoro, 1988) is Studio Ghibli's third feature film and the fourth animated feature directed by Hayao Miyazaki (the first being The Castle of Cagliostro). It was released theatrically as one-half of a double feature; the other half was the depressing Grave of the Fireflies.A little cycle truck putters down a rural road in post-war Japan, carrying four-year-old Mei (Chika Sakamoto), her older sister Satsuki (Noriko Hidaka), and their father Tatsuo Kusakabe (Shigesato Itoi) to a new home in the country to be closer to the rural hospital where the girls' mother Yasuko (Sumi Shimamoto) is recovering from an unspecified (but potentially deadly) disease. Along with the usual tribulations of moving—a spooky old house, new neighbors, fitting in at a new school—Mei encounters an odd little creature (Hitoshi Takagi) in the backyard. While pursuing it, she comes upon the den of a much larger forest spirit that she eventually calls "Totoro". At first, Mei is the only one who sees Totoro, but Satsuki soon meets him as well, and the girls have several fantastic encounters with Totoro, interwoven between subplots involving their family and (human) neighbors.However, the girls' seemingly idyllic rural existence is soon shattered when a health crisis forces their mother to cancel a much-anticipated visit home. Heartbroken, the two girls take out their fear and anger on each other, and Mei eventually sets out for the hospital alone, determined to deliver an ear of corn she believes will make her mother well. The remainder of the film revolves around Satsuki's increasingly desperate search for Mei; when all other options are exhausted, Satsuki appeals directly to Totoro for help—and he is more than delighted to be of assistance.Totoro is one of Miyazaki's best-known films, and Totoro himself became the mascot for Studio Ghibli. With the film, Miyazaki does not gloss over some of the more frightening aspects of childhood, though: the girls are terrified of their mother dying, a common goat seems monstrous from little Mei's perspective, and the whole village's fright and anxiety when Mei goes missing is almost palpable. Even Totoro—with his huge grin, inscrutable expression, and manic eyes—can be a little scary; Satsuki refers to meeting him as both the funniest and the scariest day of her life.The film would later get a short-form sequel in 2002 titled Mei and the Kittenbus (making Totoro the first Ghibli film to get a sequel), which revolves around Mei having a lighthearted adventure with a tiny kitten-sized Catbus. Unfortunately, the only way you can see the film as of right now is if you go to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.In 2022, a Screen-to-Stage Adaptation opened at London's Barbican Centre for a limited run. The show is a collaboration between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Ghilbi's own Joe Hisaishi, and features puppetry courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. It won six Olivier Awards the following year, a first for a Ghibli-based stage production.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_13353b94	type	Narrative Shapeshifting
My Neighbor Totoro / int_13353b94	comment	Narrative Shapeshifting: The opening credits feature miniature Totoro-like things shapeshifting into Totoro's name in Romanji.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
My Neighbor Totoro / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: During the bath scene, the family is framed with Mei placed conveniently in front of her father.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
My Neighbor Totoro / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Averted. Though the disease that Mei and Satsuki's mother suffers from is treated as this trope, she's never seen coughing and doesn't actually die. Considering it was based on Miyazaki's own life, and his mother had tuberculosis, coughing would certainly have been justified.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_1a6d9f92	type	By the Eyes of the Blind
My Neighbor Totoro / int_1a6d9f92	comment	By the Eyes of the Blind: The Catbus can be seen by Satsuki who wants to find Mei who also sees it while desiring to see their mother. To everyone else, it's a sudden gust of wind. The soot spirits and totoros can also be seen by the two girls but the adults can't see them, probably because they don't want to be seen by folks.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_1a89d143	type	Construction Is Awesome
My Neighbor Totoro / int_1a89d143	comment	Construction Is Awesome: Totoro and the kids magically grow a few seeds into a massive World Tree. In the morning, the tree is gone, but the seeds have germinated abnormally fast.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_1b6f11d2	type	The Cutie
My Neighbor Totoro / int_1b6f11d2	comment	The Cutie: Mei.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_1da3a484	type	Alice Allusion
My Neighbor Totoro / int_1da3a484	comment	Alice Allusion: Mei's first encounter with the Totoros starts with her following the white rabbit-looking one (and the medium blue one) until she falls down the hole where King Totoro is laying. She's found after the encounter sleeping on the ground and Satsuki and Kusakabe think it might have been a dream. The allusion further helped that the scenery of the forest areas is drawn a bit more dream-like in Mei's initial explanations then just looks like an overgrown bit of wood when she tries to find it again. The Catbus also has a Cheshire Cat grin and can vanish into thin air.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_1fffccf7	type	No Plot? No Problem!
My Neighbor Totoro / int_1fffccf7	comment	No Plot? No Problem!: The connecting thread of Satsuki and Mei's encounters with the Totoro family appears throughout, but the "story" such as it is is told more in segments similar to slice-of-life works rather than a true overarching plot.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_2006056c	type	Girls Have Cooties
My Neighbor Totoro / int_2006056c	comment	Girls Have Cooties: Kanta starts out with this attitude, but eventually gets over it. Satsuki also mentions early on (after an encounter with Kanta) that she "hates boys" but does not seem to show this attitude consistantly — she's really just annoyed with Kanta.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_24cdd048	type	Arcadia
My Neighbor Totoro / int_24cdd048	comment	Arcadia: The film is an ode to the rural lifestyle.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_2809a15a	type	Old-School Chivalry
My Neighbor Totoro / int_2809a15a	comment	Old-School Chivalry: Kanta, lending his umbrella to Mei and Satsuki when it's pouring outside.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
My Neighbor Totoro / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: There is a visual version with Mei, who has gotten lost trying to bring an ear of corn to her sick mother, sitting by a row of a statues. Those statues represent at least in part Bodhisattva Jizo, the Buddhist deity who is the protector of children. The Western equivalent would be to have her sit by a statue of Jesus or the Virgin Mary as a subtle suggestion that the little girl will be alright while her sister and King Totoro come to get her in the Cat Bus.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
My Neighbor Totoro / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: Mei running away from home and getting lost in the climax, and goes off the rails when the villagers find a little girl's sandal in the pond and fear that Mei has drowned.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_2e39af52	type	Girlish Pigtails
My Neighbor Totoro / int_2e39af52	comment	Girlish Pigtails: Mei has them, possibly to indicate that she's the younger, more innocent of the two sisters.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_31ad339a	type	Shrines and Temples
My Neighbor Totoro / int_31ad339a	comment	Shrines and Temples: Quite a few pop up at key moments in the movie. Totoro lives near a Shinto shrine dedicated to a massive camphor tree with a shimenawa rope wrapped around it, indicating he is the kami of the forest. Shrines to the Bodhisattva Jizo show up several times. When Satsuki and Mei are waiting for their father at the bus stop, Mei wanders around and finds a disused shrine to Inari, which seems to unnerve her.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
My Neighbor Totoro / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Totoro, of course. While he's huge and has a giant scary mouth and fearsome roar, he's a kindhearted creature with a sense of humor who doesn't hesitate to help Satsuki and Mei when they need it.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
My Neighbor Totoro / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: As Satsuki is running back and forth searching for Mei, she stops at one point and looks to her feet, which (since she's running in sandals) have swollen and look painfully beat-up. She removes her sandals and keeps running.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_39128678	type	Hand in the Hole
My Neighbor Totoro / int_39128678	comment	Hand in the Hole: Short creepy moment, when Mei reaches into the crack in the wall behind which the soot sprites disappeared.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
My Neighbor Totoro / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: An extremely idealistic film. It uplifted everyone's spirits up after this was in a double feature with Grave of the Fireflies.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_435eafe8	type	Follow the White Rabbit
My Neighbor Totoro / int_435eafe8	comment	Follow the White Rabbit: Mei follows Chibi-Totoro to the woods and into Totoro's lair. Chibi-Totoro even looks somewhat like a white rabbit.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_4732b2d1	type	Nighttime Bathroom Phobia
My Neighbor Totoro / int_4732b2d1	comment	Nighttime Bathroom Phobia: Discussed. Mei declares that she is not afraid of the soot sprites. Satsuki then declares that this means that Mei can go to the bathroom by herself at night.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
My Neighbor Totoro / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: In the DVD Bonus Content, Miyazaki says that he wanted to show that Japan is a beautiful country.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_4a0ec47a	type	Cheshire Cat Grin
My Neighbor Totoro / int_4a0ec47a	comment	Cheshire Cat Grin: Totoro and the Catbus show these off, though theirs have no malice behind them.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_4a41c3dc	type	Invisible to Adults
My Neighbor Totoro / int_4a41c3dc	comment	Invisible to Adults: Only children seem to be able to see the soot sprites and Totoros, though it's possible that this is simply because they don't want to be seen by adults. At the film's end, it's hinted that Satsuki at least is getting too old to see them, though Mei still sees them in the sequel. In an unusual twist to this trope, the adults show no overt signs of disbelieving the children when they talk about the spirits. The girls' father tells them of the soot spirits, and Kanta's grandmother confirms she saw them when she was younger. This sets up the epilogue.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
My Neighbor Totoro / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: As iconic and beloved a character as Totoro is, and the film bearing his name, as well as most marketing surrounding him, he isn't as featured as one would think in the film, as the film focuses on small vignettes in the girls lives in their new home.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
My Neighbor Totoro / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Mei is a Cheerful Child who enjoys the simple pleasures in life, but learning that her mother's illness got worse and she can't come back from the hospital breaks her and makes her run off from home.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_566f3ddd	type	Nature Spirit
My Neighbor Totoro / int_566f3ddd	comment	Nature Spirit: Totoro and his friends. Although only mentioned once as being "The Keeper of the Forest", he certainly shows it.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_5859124f	type	Gruesome Goat
My Neighbor Totoro / int_5859124f	comment	Gruesome Goat: When Mei is trying to deliver an ear of corn to the hospital, she's attacked by a goat that tries to eat her corn, which is portrayed as a terrifying creature from her perspective.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
My Neighbor Totoro / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Mei is the foolish, Satsuki is the responsible. Mei's foolishness is justified because she's only 4 years old and acts like a 4-year-old would, though the complications drive the last third of the film. Satsuki's responsibility is nearly Promotion to Parent levels with the amount of work she does around the house at 9 years old and how much she has to watch over Mei, but the ending has her break from the strain like any kid would her age with how many stressful events seem to happen at once.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_5a22609e	type	Creator Thumbprint
My Neighbor Totoro / int_5a22609e	comment	Creator Thumbprint: Flight and aircraft. There's the scene with the Totoros and the girls flying on the spinning top, and we also see Kanta building a toy aircraft out of balsa and paper.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
My Neighbor Totoro / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Satsuki, though she's not especially tomboyish; she just likes it that way. Possibly indicative of her being the older, more responsible sibling compared to Mei.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_636768a6	type	Otherworldly Visits Youngest First
My Neighbor Totoro / int_636768a6	comment	Otherworldly Visits Youngest First: The titular spirit appears to Mei, the youngest child, first. He reveals himself to her older sister, Satsuki, later. Though their parents never actually see Totoro, they see enough hints that they don't doubt his existence by the story's end.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_66486ccf	type	Electric Slide
My Neighbor Totoro / int_66486ccf	comment	Electric Slide: The Catbus ventures forth with Satsuki to find Mei, even running along an electric line to do so. Mei is found by the electric line at an unknown place.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_665136e6	type	Animals Lack Attributes
My Neighbor Totoro / int_665136e6	comment	Animals Lack Attributes: Averted; the Catbus has visible testicles, as does the Kittenbus in the short.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_728e34ab	type	Convenient Cranny
My Neighbor Totoro / int_728e34ab	comment	Convenient Cranny: When chased by Mei, Chibi-Totoro hides underneath the house where the girl cannot reach it.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
My Neighbor Totoro / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The original Japanese poster◊ is taken from concept art for an early draft — according to which the two siblings were still one character. So instead of Satsuki and Mei waiting in the rain, it has a girl who has Mei's head on Satsuki's body. Whoops.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_77195de1	type	Contagious Laughter
My Neighbor Totoro / int_77195de1	comment	Contagious Laughter: Once the father starts to laugh in the bath, the girls are able to join in. Interestingly for this trope, they start out by faking their laughter (to drive away the susuwatari), before they all finally start laughing for real.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_792fef74	type	Cute, but Cacophonic
My Neighbor Totoro / int_792fef74	comment	Cute, but Cacophonic: Note to those watching the movie on their computers or portable DVD players: Please take your headphones off whenever it looks like Totoro is going to roar. Your ears will thank you.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_7a77148	type	Close-Knit Community
My Neighbor Totoro / int_7a77148	comment	Close-Knit Community: The village; everyone seems to know each other, and everyone pitches in to search for Mei.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
My Neighbor Totoro / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: The Disney dub refers to the ohagi the family eats after they finish moving as "cakes", without the visual representation being edited. The Streamline dub avoids this by having Satsuki compliment her grandma on her cooking in general.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
My Neighbor Totoro / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: The film is mostly about two siblings and their interactions with spirits from the forest.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
My Neighbor Totoro / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Satsuki and Kanta are this to each other, hiding their affection for each other with snark, especially Kanta who teases Satsuki for being in a "haunted house".
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
My Neighbor Totoro / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The movie was shown after the rather unpleasant Grave of the Fireflies in its original theatrical run in Japan.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_812a2820	type	Pink Means Feminine
My Neighbor Totoro / int_812a2820	comment	Pink Means Feminine: Mei wears a pink dress all the time, although her pyjamas are yellow instead.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_856a425a	type	TheFifties
My Neighbor Totoro / int_856a425a	comment	The '50s: This movie is set in the fifties. According to Miyazaki, it's the very time period "when televisions were yet to be brought to homes".
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_9aae4c16	comment	Trampoline Tummy: Mei uses Totoro as a cushion when she finds him sleeping belly up, waking him up in the process, before falling asleep together. Satsuki also bounces briefly when she lands on Totoro.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
My Neighbor Totoro / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: While visiting their mother, the girls claim their father kept getting lost on the way to the hospital.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
My Neighbor Totoro / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: With the exception of Totoro himself and the girls' worrying that their mother might be dying, nothing really happens in this movie. It's just two girls hanging out in their new home.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
My Neighbor Totoro / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: The titular character refers to the creature the main characters, Satsuki and Mei, meet after moving to their new home.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
My Neighbor Totoro / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Professor Kusakabe is probably one of the nicest fathers in all of anime—and he's effective as a parent, to boot. He never talks down to his daughters even when they're talking about having seen Totoro; not even the audience can really tell whether he honestly believes them or is simply humoring them. If anything, he seems to value their imaginations. Also, judging from the way Mei and Satsuki adore her (and her kind and gentle manner during her few scenes), it's pretty clear their mother qualifies, too.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
My Neighbor Totoro / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: In the stage version, when Mei first encounters the smaller Totoros and starts chasing them, they enter the Kusukabes' house and steal her bag. This gives Mei a reason to continue chasing after them. They do, however, return it after she falls asleep on Totoro.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_aa92a5d2	type	Mega Neko
My Neighbor Totoro / int_aa92a5d2	comment	Mega Neko: The Catbus is what you might expect if you merged a bus with a twelve-legged cat spirit. Its eyes glow like headlights, its hollow body has furry benches and "windows", and it even has a sign that changes to match its destination, which includes Mei.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
My Neighbor Totoro / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: At various times the soundtrack playfully punctuates the characters' movements, most notably in the scene where Mei chases Chibi-Totoro and Chu-Totoro through her backyard.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
My Neighbor Totoro / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The credits show scenes from the girls' lives during the year following the story.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_bdb0438e	type	Everything's Better with Sparkles
My Neighbor Totoro / int_bdb0438e	comment	Everything's Better with Sparkles: The sparkling acorns, well, they sparkle, adding to their appeal.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_bea77379	type	Youkai
My Neighbor Totoro / int_bea77379	comment	Youkai: The Totoros are nature spirits centered around the great tree near the Kusakabes' home, which bears Shinto ropes. The film also features Susuwatari (wandering soot), a fictitious Youkai created by Miyazaki. (The Susuwatari would later appear in Spirited Away.)
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_c27d3939	type	Soap Opera Disease
My Neighbor Totoro / int_c27d3939	comment	Soap Opera Disease: The mother's illness is never explicitly identified, but is implied to be tuberculosis; the hospital specializes in the disease. Miyazaki's own mother suffered from it as well.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_c43f8b58	type	Chasing a Butterfly
My Neighbor Totoro / int_c43f8b58	comment	Chasing a Butterfly: Mei tends to do this. First she chases the soot gremlins all over the house; then she gets lost when she follows Chibi-Totoro into the woods. Although she encounters a monstrous creature (the titular Totoro), fortunately he is a Gentle Giant, so the danger part is averted.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
My Neighbor Totoro / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Totoro is a cuddly Gentle Giant who is nothing but helpful to the two girls
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
My Neighbor Totoro / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: A novel based on the film would be written by Tsugiko Kubo in 2001, with an English translation by Jim Hubbert releasing in 2013. The novel is largely faithful to the film, though it slightly expands on the story and explains a few details that were not readily explained in the film, such as why Mei and Satsuki's mother was hospitalized.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_c9020420	type	Double Feature
My Neighbor Totoro / int_c9020420	comment	Double Feature: The film was originally screened as a double feature with the rather less uplifting Grave of the Fireflies. The studio mandated that My Neighbor Totoro must be shown second as they found that too many people would simply walk out and not watch Grave of the Fireflies if Totoro was shown first.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
My Neighbor Totoro / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Are the spirits the girls meet throughout the movie real (and only kids can see them) or is it their imaginations? For example, the huge tree they grow with Totoro is gone by the morning but the seedlings are there. The end credits imply Satsuki is getting too old to see them as well.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
My Neighbor Totoro / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: This was Miyazaki's first movie aimed at kids, unlike NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
My Neighbor Totoro / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Downplayed, but Granny for Satsuki and Mei. Similar to the girl's father (stated below), Granny admits to seeing the soot sprites when she was younger.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_d48bde6d	type	Mouth Cam
My Neighbor Totoro / int_d48bde6d	comment	Mouth Cam: At one point we see Mei from within Totoro's mouth.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_db08fb56	type	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
My Neighbor Totoro / int_db08fb56	comment	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Mei and Satsuki do this when trying to make the soot sprites (or "soot gremlins" or even "dust bunnies," depending on which version one watches) in the attic appear. It's toned down from the Japanese language track, where they also say, "Or we'll pluck your eyeballs out!"
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
My Neighbor Totoro / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: In what is quite possibly the only thing not cute about her, Mei's crying is very much this: a full-throated wailing and usually spouting some form of Angrish.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
My Neighbor Totoro / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: As the DVD release points out, the movie was designed to be devoid of conflict. The main source of tension in the climax is not any antagonistic character, but the mother's illness and the girls' reaction to it.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
My Neighbor Totoro / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Totoro's wide starey eyes are one of its hallmarks.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_e27d59a7	type	Animal-Vehicle Hybrid
My Neighbor Totoro / int_e27d59a7	comment	Animal-Vehicle Hybrid: The Catbus, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_e4385ff4	type	Straying Baby
My Neighbor Totoro / int_e4385ff4	comment	Straying Baby: Mei's running off with no sense of the dangers involved triggers the climax.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
My Neighbor Totoro / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Miyazaki is actually one of four children but he used two siblings in the film to streamline the story and save time.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
My Neighbor Totoro / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Satsuki literally runs for several kilometers in her search for Mei.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_e58e0124	type	PokÃ©mon Speak
My Neighbor Totoro / int_e58e0124	comment	PokÃ©mon Speak: Totoro is only ever heard growling, roaring, and saying his own name.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_e758e4d6	type	Ghibli Hills
My Neighbor Totoro / int_e758e4d6	comment	Ghibli Hills: The Ur-example. Wherever this film is set is made seemingly entirely of rolling hills, dense forest, and all the best features of rural Japan.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_eab212a8	type	Period Piece
My Neighbor Totoro / int_eab212a8	comment	Period Piece: The film takes place in rural Japan roughly around the early 1950s, as evidenced by the fashion, the technology, several calendars dating to the 50s and there not being any television sets present.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
My Neighbor Totoro / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: Satsuki and Mei are all round innocent and good...until they hear news of their mother's illness seemingly getting worse, causing Satsuki and Mei to take their fear and anger out on each other.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
My Neighbor Totoro / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In the climax, Totoro calls upon the Catbus to locate Mei after the village were unable to do so, who does so and even offers the sisters a free ride to the hospital where Yasuko is to deliver her some corn.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
My Neighbor Totoro / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: The film was originally planned to only have one girl as the main protagonist. However, at some point during production, Miyazaki felt the story wasnâ€™t working with one girl, so he decided to split her into two sisters, Mei and Satsuki, instead. Despite this, the young girl still made it onto the Japanese theatrical poster◊.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_f5d86353	type	Zigzag Paper Tassel
My Neighbor Totoro / int_f5d86353	comment	Zig Zag Paper Tassel: The Shinto ropes on Totoro's tree count.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_f5eda11	type	Mix-and-Match Critters
My Neighbor Totoro / int_f5eda11	comment	Mix-and-Match Critters: The Totoros, particularly the largest Totoro, resemble bipedal rabbits with catlike whiskers and the snouts, mouths, and roars of a bear, making them feel mythical and helping to convey the power and sweetness of the large Totoro.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_f63e468f	comment	Terrible Artist: Averted with Satsuki's cute drawing of Mei as the crab who waited over a persimmon seed to grow. However, Mei is shown drawing "a Totoro" with crayons (and the Cat Bus in chalk during the epilogue), both of which are... done by a four-year-old, shall we say.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Satsuki is this for Mei, often playing along with her, even if it involves some Japanese spirits around their home.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_f8d24fbb	type	BigSisterInstinct
My Neighbor Totoro / int_f8d24fbb	comment	Big Sister Instinct: Satsuki's kicks in big time when Mei goes missing. She runs herself ragged trying to find her, and finally seeks out Totoro's help when she is starting to lose hope.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_f9439c84	type	Haunted House
My Neighbor Totoro / int_f9439c84	comment	Haunted House: Kanta believes this of the house the family moves into, not without reason.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_fd1f1a63	type	Ridiculously Cute Critter
My Neighbor Totoro / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: Totoro. C'mon, just look at the picture, and try to tell me you don't wanna give the big fuzzy critter a hug, too.
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_fd752bc3	type	All Trolls Are Different
My Neighbor Totoro / int_fd752bc3	comment	All Trolls Are Different: Mei mistakes Totoro for a troll; "Totoro" is even a mispronunciation of the Japanese word for troll, "TorÅ�ru".
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My Neighbor Totoro / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
My Neighbor Totoro / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: "Satsuki" is the old Japanese term for the month of May, and "Mei" sounds like the English name for the month. Originally, Mei was only going to be the only girl until Miyazaki realized that a four-year old wouldn't have the independence necessary to drive the story. The three Totoros themselves, named for their sizes. The littlest one is called "Chibi Totoro" ("chibi" meaning "little"), the blue middle-sized one is "ChÅ« Totoro" ("chÅ«" meaning "middle"), and the biggest one is "ÅŒ Totoro" ("Å�" meaning "large").The big guy's name is sometimes rendered as "Ou Totoro", resulting in the alternate English translation "King Totoro".
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Starlight Series / Fan Fic	seeAlso	My Neighbor Totoro
Whotrek The Ultimate Adventure 1 / Fan Fic	seeAlso	My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	A Light in the Distance / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Adorable Abomination / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	All Trolls Are Different / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Animal-Vehicle Hybrid / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Anime First / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Arcadia / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Award-Bait Song / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Baby Name Trend Starter / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Barbie Doll Anatomy / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Boyish Short Hair / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Brand X / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	By the Eyes of the Blind / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Cathartic Crying / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Chasing a Butterfly / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Cheerful Child / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Cheshire Cat Grin / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Children Are Innocent / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Children Voicing Children / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Close-Knit Community / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Construction Is Awesome / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Contagious Laughter / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Cultural Cross-Reference / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Cultural Translation / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Cute, but Cacophonic / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Cute Giant / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Cute Kitten / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Damsel in Distress / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Dead Hat Shot / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Dénouement / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Died During Production / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Disney Acid Sequence / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Dope Slap / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Down the Rabbit Hole / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Early Draft Tie-In / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Electric Slide / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Eyelid Pull Taunt / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Fan Nickname / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Follow the White Rabbit / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Friendly Tickle Torture / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Furo Scene / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Girlish Pigtails / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Girls Have Cooties / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Growing Up Sucks / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Gruesome Goat / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Haunted House / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Improvised Umbrella / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Incestuous Casting / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Incidental Multilingual Wordplay / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Invisible to Adults / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Kodomomuke / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Late Export for You / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Living Dust Bunnies / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Mega Neko / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Mickey Mousing / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Mouth Cam / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Multigenerational Household / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Narrative Filigree / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Narrative Shapeshifting / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Nature Spirit / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Nervous Tics / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Non-Humans Lack Attributes / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Otherworldly Visits Youngest First / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Random Events Plot / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Reading Foreign Signs Out Loud / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Science Imitates Art / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Secondary Character Title / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Signature Scene / int_42cfcd5d
Sliding Scale of Anime Obscurity	seeAlso	My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Soap Opera Disease / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Sprint Scrubbing / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Supernatural-Proof Father / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Temporal Theme Naming / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	The '50s / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named / int_42cfcd5d
TimDaly	seeAlso	My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Title Theme Tune / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Trampoline Tummy / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Troll Tales / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Truck Driver's Gear Change / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Tummy Cushion / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Vanilla Edition / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	When It Rains, It Pours / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Write What You Know / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Youkai / int_42cfcd5d
My Neighbor Totoro	hasFeature	Zigzag Paper Tassel / int_42cfcd5d
myneighbortotoro	sameAs	My Neighbor Totoro

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