MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO NOVEL (My Neighbor Totoro: The Novel)

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Writing in Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro, Kunio Hara praised the soundtrack, describing the song "My Neighbor Totoro" as a "sonic icon" of the film. Toy Story 3 's art director Daisuke Tsutsumi is married to Miyazaki's niece, who inspired the character Mei in My Neighbor Totoro. In 2013, Viz released a hardcover light novel that was written by Tsugiko Kubo and illustrated by Hayao Miyazaki. When Mei goes missing, it's up to Satsuki to find her sister, and she'll need help from some new, and magical, friends.

I still felt that way when I started reading, both because I love the My Neighbour Totoro movie, but also because the book itself is really beautiful and kinda magical with pictures in it and on the cover. This was also told using third-person omniscient, which makes sense considering this is a kids book, but it’s still my least favorite POV to read.It is often believed that children have more open third eyes making them more sensitive and susceptible to certain supernatural phenomena.

If you have kids or like kids then this would be a good story to read them, but as I say pretty much the film. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. It plopped in the mud and splashed in the puddles, slithered down branches and tinkled from the leaf tips, a symphony of tiny notes playing and fading away endlessly. When I first watched it, I was blown away by the simplicity of the story and yet how wonderfully emotive it was. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.A 111-page picture book based on the film and aimed at young children was released by Tokuma on June 28, 1988, and, in a 112-page English translation, by Viz on November 8, 2005. On his own, Miyazaki won several accolades, including eight Tokyo Anime Awards, as well for his works.

Not that it is off-putting, by any means, far from it, there is a slight chance that the younger readers, to whom the book created for, may never appreciate the magic of the surreal, larger-than-life descriptive passages of leafy milieu presented in the storytelling. After the rights to the Streamline dub expired in 2004, [42] Walt Disney Home Entertainment re-released the movie on DVD on March 7, 2006, with Disney's newly produced English dub and the original Japanese version. Wegner, the film is an example of alternative history, citing the utopian-like setting of the anime. The girls are learning what its like to work hard like the country folk and Satsuki is becoming more of a big girl, helping her father keep up the house and cook food. My favourite line totally deserves a mention: 'The rice plants were so green it almost made you want to sneeze.The book is what I expected it to be – simple, straightforward and heartwarming, everything that the movie was. In 2023, the film was re-released in 970 United States locations as part of celebrations to mark the 35th anniversary of its first theatrical release, [36] with showings in both Japanese with English subtitles and with the English dub. He started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation.

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 86 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". The beloved animation classic by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Totoro , is now a novel. I have this an extra star because of the actual book itself, a lovely hardback, great illustrations, and compact.In spite of the mother’s physical absence, her emotional presence still resonated compared to the father. The film explores themes such as animism, Shinto symbology, environmentalism and the joys of rural living. My Neighbor Totoro received numerous awards, including the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize, the Mainichi Film Award, and Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film in 1988.