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Thursday, July 16, 2009

I Remember: Totoro**

When I was a kid, I saw this cartoon and I never forgot it. It was called My Neighbor Totoro, it is a Japanese Anime film, back then Japanese Animes were famous. I don't know if you know him, but I really loved him. love


The Setting: 1958, Rural Japan

The Characters:
Satsuki -- the older sister
Mei -- the youngest sister
Totoro -- the Keeper of the Forest
The catbus
Soot Spirits -- small house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places, but they leave when the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father. They look like dust bunnies with eyes, so cute!

So the story begins when Satsuki and Mei's mother became ill and they moved to a house closer to the hospital where she was confined and there they discovered all sorts of magical creatures living in their house and in the forest. One day, Mei when was playing outside, she saw what looked like 2 rabbit ears, only it turned out not to be a rabbit but a small see through kinda creature and so she followed it under their house, she didn't know what it was, she was too happy when she saw a bigger version of it appear, she called that bigger version "Totoro", although it said in the original Japanese dub, the word "totoro" stemmed from Mei's mispronunciation of the word "troll". Their father tells her later on that Totoro is the Keeper of the Forest.



One rainy night while waiting for their father's bus to arrive at the bus stop, Mei was at Satsuki's back, asleep, Totoro appeared beside them with only a large leaf covering his head, this is the first time Satsuki actually meets Totoro, she gives him an umbrella and he loves it, in turn he gives them something wrapped in leaves, which turned out to be seeds and some nuts, and then he boards the Catbus. That is my fave part, check out the video. I couldn't find one in English, I think the one is in French, but you get what they're saying.



I wish I could find a DVD of this somewhere because I'd want to watch it again and maybe let my kids watch it too.sengihnampakgigi

Anyway, here's the theme song, I don't know Japanese, maybe I should ask my dad to translatefikir, but the tune is catchy and I can't get the chorus out of my head. LOL. gelakguling



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24 comments:

Monica said...

:* :* :* :*

Monica said...

i don know him Ane! :-D :-D :-D

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Mariuca said...

:* :* :* :*

Mariuca said...

*DONT_KNOW* *DONT_KNOW* *DONT_KNOW* *DONT_KNOW*

Mariuca said...

chop!

Monica said...

hahaha very catchy tune indeed! :) ;)

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Mariuca said...

Oh me too not too sure abt this show Ane. But the song is cute and catchy too! :* :* :*

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Ane said...

Really Mon? you never heard of him? :)

Monica said...

wow yr dad can understand Japanese? =-O =-O

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Ane said...

thanks for chopping ladies! which blog here today Marzie! :)

Mariuca said...

Yay! I got it, thanks sweetie! I think I’d like to have WOAFS here today Ane! Hugs!

Monica said...

yeah i've never heard of him Ane :-P

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Mariuca said...

My MIL can speak Japanese too Ane! She worked in Japan for a while last time.

Mariuca said...

My MIL can speak Japanese too Ane! She worked in Japan for a while last time.

Ane said...

It is a catchy tune right Mon! :-D

Ane said...

I loved this cartoon Marzie! I suddenly remembered it, out of the blue.. so
weird..

Ane said...

He lived in Japan for almost 8 years Mon, he can speak and write Japanese
fluently.. :-D

Ane said...

WOAFS it is Marzie! :)

Ane said...

I want to learn how to speak and write Japanese Marzie, but too lazy! :-D
LOL

Mariuca said...

Thanks sweetie. :)

Mariuca said...

Oh 8 years is a long time, no wonder he’s fluent in japanese!

Ane said...

I know, he only came home because he got into a car crash and was injured
very badly...

Mariuca said...

He he me too lazy Ane! Lazy lazy LAZY!!! Just wanna relaxi taxi all day and dream of bein rich!!

Ane said...

I dream of being rich too Shem!! LOL :-D

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