Winner of six Olivier Awards and five WhatsOnStage Awards , this “utterly beguiling” (The Stage) and “jaw-dropping” (Metro) staging of the celebrated 1988 animated feature film is brought to you by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi, in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV and adapted by Tom Morton-Smith (Oppenheimer).

Este no es el manga original, sino que es la secuencia escrita de la película. Me hubiera gustado más comenzar con el manga.Mei and the Kittenbus ( めいとこねこバス, Mei to Konekobasu) is a thirteen-minute sequel to My Neighbor Totoro that was written and directed by Miyazaki. [101] Chika Sakamoto, who voiced Mei in Totoro, returned to voice Mei in this short. Hayao Miyazaki voiced Granny Cat ( Neko Baa-chan) and Totoro. The sequel focuses on the character Mei Kusakabe from the original film and her one-night adventures with Kittenbus, the offspring of Catbus, and other cat-oriented vehicles. [102] The sequel was first released in Japan in 2003 and is regularly shown at Ghibli Museum [103] but has not been released on home video. Performed with limited staging conditions and costumes, these fascinating rehearsals are only available for Film critic Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times identified My Neighbor Totoro as one of his "Great Movies", calling it "one of the lovingly hand-crafted works of Hayao Miyazaki". In his review, Ebert said the film "is based on experience, situation and exploration—not on conflict and threat", and added: Tokuma Shoten released My Neighbor Totoro on VHS and LaserDisc in August 1988. [39] Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan (now Walt Disney Japan) reissued the VHS on June 27, 1997, as part of their series Ghibli ga Ippai. [40] Disney released the film on Blu-ray in Japan on 2012. [41] Ugwu, Reggie (December 1, 2022). "Chantal Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman' Named Greatest Film of All Time in Sight and Sound Poll". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved December 2, 2022.

This is a movie-to-book adaptation, which I have never read before. In most cases when a book become movie a lot of stuff is cut, and I understand why because else the movies would probably be too long (in many cases that wouldn't bother me at all but that's besides the point). Therefor I thought this book would be great because for once there would be no nead to cut or change, you can just take a wonderful movie and turn it into a book.Wiegand, Chris (March 30, 2023). "My Neighbour Totoro to return to the Barbican". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 30, 2023 . Retrieved June 5, 2023.

This is a very light and enjoyable read. There is nice artwork for sure, though in its reduced size it's not as grand as the film or even video would be. a b "When Studio Ghibli is mentioned, usually the name of its co-founder and chief director Hayao Miyazaki springs to mind. But anyone with an awareness of the labor-intensive animation process knows that such masterpieces as Tonari no Totoro...". International Herald Tribune-Asahi Shimbun. August 24, 2007.La historia de Satsuki, quien recién se muda a una nueva casa junto a su papá y su hermana Mei. Al llegar, todos son bien amables, pero un pequeño vecino, llamado Kanta, le advierte que la casa está embrujada y por eso, Satsuki comienza a encontrar unos pequeños espiritus y a escuchar cosas raras en la noche. Y su papá tiene una solución que calma los sonidos y los deja dormir placidamente en la noche. Granny takes a shine to Mei, who sees her as the grandchild she never had. She is patient with Mei, knowing that her mother is indisposed at the hospital. She is terrified of Granny's farm animals. Totoro is a forest spirit that shows himself to the girls. He is the cutest thing ever! Along with the mini totoros, soot spirits and cat bus.

Denison, Rayna (October 22, 2015). Anime: A Critical Introduction. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4725-7676-7.Tonari no Totoro(My Neighbour Totorro)(1988) is probably the film that introduced many western audiences to the work of esteemed Japanese animator/director Hayao Miyazaki and his celebrated production house Studio Ghibli.