My Neighbor Totoro: Difference between revisions
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* [[Follow the White Rabbit]]: Mei does this to find Totoro.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Totoro, of course.
* [[Ghibli Hills]]: The Ur-example from the one and only [[Trope Namers|Trope Namer]], prominent around the house Mei and Satsuki moves into.
* [[Good Parents]]: Professor Kusakabe is probably the nicest Dad in anime.
* [[Happy Ending]]
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* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: Averted - though the disease is treated as this trope, the girl's mother never coughs even once; thankfully she doesn't actually die from it.
** Considering it was based on Miyazaki's own life, and his mother had tuberculosis, coughing would certainly have been justified.
* [[Invisible to Adults]]: The nature spirits including Totoro and Catbus.
* [[Mega Neko]]: The Catbus.
* [[Narrative Shapeshifting]]: The opening credits.
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* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Totoro. C'mon, just look at picture, and try to tell me ''you'' don't wanna give the big fuzzy critter a hug, too.
* [[Scenery Censor]]: While Satsuki, Mei, and their father are taking a bath together.
* [[Slice of Life]]: Despite Totoro appearing on the cover suggesting a fantasy adventure, the film is quite laid back and slow paced, showing many mundane moments like moving into a new house or fetching water from a pump. While an overarching conflict is present throughout the film, it only plays a major role in the plot near the end, during the "tenku" phase of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5%8Dtenketsu Kishōtenketsu story structure].
* [[Terrible Artist]]: Averted with Satsuki's cute drawing of Mei as the crab who waited over a persimmon seed to grow.
* [[Thematic Theme Tune]]: The song over the opening credits, titled "Stroll", is reflective of the adventurous and energetic themes present in the first half of the film, involving Mei and Satsuki's exploration of the forests surrounding their home.
* [[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.
** Also the three Totoros themselves, named for their sizes. The littlest one is called "Chibi Totoro" ("chibi" meaning "little"), the blue middle-sized one is "Chū Totoro" ("chū" meaning "middle"), and the biggest one is "Ō Totoro" ("ō" meaning "large").
* [[Title Theme Tune]]: The song over the ending credits, appropriately titled "My Neighbor Totoro". Guess which character's name is constantly repeated.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]: The credits show scenes from the girls' lives during the year following the story. It also shows Totoro interacting with other forest spirits, but never the girls interacting with Totoro, implying that the events of the film were a one-off adventure.
* [[Youkai]]: The Totoros are nature spirits centered around the great tree near the Kusakabes' home, which bears Shinto ropes.
* [[Zigzag Paper Tassel]]: The Shinto ropes on Totoro's tree.
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