Japan’s Sayama Hills inspired the movie My Neighbor Totoro, with Hayao Miyazaki previously saying Totoro would never have been born if he, Miyazaki, hadn’t lived in that area. The hills are now sometimes referred to as Totoro’s Forest, and The Totoro Fund program is an …Read more »
There’s a lot of merchandise dedicated to My Neighbor Totoro, and now this includes Totoro’s own tea set! And that’s not just stuff to drink tea out of . . . it’s actual kinds of tea, as well! The teapot and Japanese-style teacup are made …Read more »
People around the world have different New Year’s traditions, and one in Japan is the New Year’s card referred to as a nengajo. In the previous New Year, Studio Ghibli, which had joined social media, shared their nengajo publicly on Twitter with an image Miyazaki …Read more »
Iconic anime director Hayao Miyazaki has made no secret about his love of nature and his environmentalism, and right now he’s working toward making almost nine acres in Kaminoyama into a nature reserve. There’s a special connection here, because Miyazaki has said that the Kaminoyama …Read more »
The new season of Rick and Morty recently debuted, and Adult Swim France shared a claymation video with the short comment “Totoro Rick and Morty.” Totoro Rick and Morty. pic.twitter.com/ZpgkT7Gon4 — Adult Swim France (@AdultSwimFrance) June 27, 2021 In the video you can see Morty …Read more »
Summer isn’t too far away, and Studio Ghibli has come out with new merchandise to help people stay cooler in the hotter months. The merchandise is also an ecologically friendly way to stay cooler, which falls in line with Hayao Miyazaki’s interests. We’re talking about …Read more »
Handbag and luggage company LeSportsac Inc. is feeling the Totoro love. Its new collection is inspired by Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro movie, and the merchandise goes on sale March 10. The official theme for each of these is “It was a dream, but it …Read more »
Last night The Simpsons played a new episode titled “The Dad Feelings-Limited” that included references to anime. Comic Book Guy and his wife, the mangaka Kumiko, start hanging out with Homer and Marge, doing trivia and eating ramen with them. (And if you look closely, …Read more »
Is it ever possible to have too much Totoro? Character goods shop Perfect World Tokyo doesn’t think so, and the Japanese site grape covered their adorable new releases. First up is a Totoro sleeping bag, great for sleep-overs or just for fun. Totoro himself makes …Read more »
This is pretty darn adorable. Guillermo del Toro, director of Pacific Rim, Pan’s Labyrinth and a host of other sci-fi and fantasy films, doesn’t have the easiest name to pronounce. That is, at least, for Japanese actor Mana Ashida, who played Mako in a childhood …Read more »
It may surprise readers to learn Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro wasn’t actually a hit for the studio when it was released in 1988 – but we suspect the mounds of merchandise over the years have more than made up for any box office shortcomings. …Read more »
No way around it: the end (and beginning) of a year is always list-heavy. This one’s a bit different, though, in that it has nothing to do with 2016. Nope, this is something a bit more ambitious. Music and entertainment magazine Paste has put together …Read more »
Promoting the upcoming Studio Ghibli co-production, The Red Turtle , and giving fans a deeper look into the Studio Ghibli body of work, a new exhibition has taken over the Roppongi Hills Plaza Mori Arts Center that showcases the 30-year history of the animation company …Read more »
If you’ve ever been to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, you’ve no doubt seen kids playing around in a life-size version of the Catbus from the studio’s classic My Neighbor Totoro . You may also have felt a pang of jealously, knowing that if …Read more »
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame announced last Thursday that Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is one of the four new inductees for this year, alongside other visionary creators like fantasy artist Frank Frazetta and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick. For those wondering, the …Read more »
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