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Home China World World Europe. World Europe. He has no claws. He is years old. Mei is the first human to meet Totoro in the film, and she and Totoro seem to get along well. Since Totoro helps Mei and Satsuki's saplings grow and helps find her, it seems like he cares about her.
Satsuki and Totoro also seem to get on well, as Satsuki is excited to meet Totoro when she first hears about him, and Totoro helps her at various times throughout the film. Totoro and Tatsuo never actually meet in the film, but Tatsuo believes in Totoro's existence despite this, and he acts warmly towards him. It isn't clear what Totoro's opinion of Tatsuo isn't shown, but it seems that he doesn't really have an opinion on him, as they never meet and Tatsuo doesn't seem to bother his home.
My Neighbor Totoro Wiki Explore. The Films. Totoro Susuwatari Sootsprites Catbus Kittenbus. Directors Hayao Miyazaki Isao Takahata. Recent blog posts Forum. In order to win over financiers, Suzuki suggested that My Neighbor Totoro be shown alongside another Studio Ghibli film— Grave of the Fireflies —as a double feature.
The latter film was being backed by publisher Shinchosha, which at the time was more established than Tokuma Shoten, the publisher that funded My Neighbor Totoro. This idea was ultimately approved, and the two films premiered together in My Neighbor Totoro didn't become a commercial success until it made its way to Japanese television, though. When it aired on NTV, the ratings went off the chart. The word for troll is pronounced tororu in Japanese, which sounds similar to what Mei calls the fluffy forest creature she encounters.
Their mother can be seen reading them the fairy tale Three Billy Goats Gruff , which, if you recall, contains a troll character. However, as Miyazaki wrote in The Art of My Neighbor Totoro , "[Totoro] is the name that our protagonist, the four-year-old Mei, gives these creatures. No one knows what their real name is. The movie is set about an hour's drive from Tokyo in Sayama Hills, Tokorozawa, where Miyazaki owns a home.
They come back during this sequence. Death is not far away… she's running right into it! When she's crossed over to the other side, the Totoro then helps Satsuki to find her sister in dead-land, and then they later go visit their mother.
Strangely, nobody notices they were there except for their mother, who is dying. This suggests they came to say goodbye before heading off to heaven in their Cat Bus. Speaking of cat buses….
Some people think the Neko Cat Bus is a 1-way trip to heaven or maybe hell. While I don't know about this, one of the stops on the Neko Bus is "grave road," so that sounds pretty must like dead people ride it to me. In the ending scene, Mei and Satsuki don't have shadows.
Only dead people don't have shadows for some unknown reason. There is a lot more of this, but this set of gifs summarizes most of the points. Gifs make everything more understandable, right? Prepare for your childhood to be torn straight from your hearts. This conspiracy theory has been around for a long time, actually. It got really heated on the internet, and then finally Ghibli had to make an official statement. In , they did just that, denying that the urban legend was true. There is absolutely no truth or configuration that Totoros are the Gods of Death or that Mei is dead in My neighbor Totoro.
Still, when I was reading this everything made sense and it caused me to shudder and tremble when I thought about it. Who thought a children's movie could have such scary undertones! So, who's telling the truth? It seems like there's a lot here that makes sense.
But, people will read into just about anything too much from time to time. Were you convinced either way?
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