My Neighbor Totoro

Anime - My Neighbor Totoro Director: Hayao Miyazaki Scenario: Hayao Miyazaki Genre: comedy Number of series: 1 Studio: GHIBLI Year: 1988 Format: feature films, 88 min. Warlike: Description: ( "Tonari no Totoro", the English title of "My Neighbor Totoro". Scenario author and director Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Dzhibli, 1988). "Neighbor Totoro" - a story about how two girls, four and seven years old, meet-the custodians of the forest spirits. Owing to illness, the... Read Full Story

I dug up our DVD of My Neighbor Totoro and the plan is to watch it tonight.  (If you don't know this one, you've probably heard of some of Hayao Miyazaki's other great animated films: Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke). Christopher and I drew some of our favorite characters from the movie.  (Some of Con's as well, I happen to know).  These are Soot Sprites, basically animated dust bunnies... Read Full Story

Submitted by openthink on 9/28/08 I found this particularly hilarious, especially considering I loathe my own neighbors.  I can’t possibly tell you how many times I’ve had the urge to go upstairs with a shotgun - the noise… it’s just too much, and I know they do it on purpose sometimes. We all have those neighbors, and we all have those thoughts - admit it!  The letter they wrote to theirs has a serious, “respectful” tone, which is what makes it funny. Original Description: Things aren’t... Read Full Story

Sankai -- A 43-year-old man, who goes by the name of Yamamichi Yoshiyuki, erects a statue of the famous Hayao Miyazaki character Totoro of the My Neighbor Totoro fame. The umbrella-carrying statue stands alone at a local bus stop. The statue is made of boat cushioning, wood scraps and polystyrene. Totoro's purpose? "To improve the image of the area." It's really cool because the woody background plus the bus stop makes it a picturesque scene taken right out of the anime. What time will... Read Full Story

Two young girls, Satsuki and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros. They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures. Everyone saw this movie right? Just in case there are some people who have not seen this great classic, here are the download links from IU. Some of you will love it’s... Read Full Story