The susuwatari, or "soot sprites", appear in the Miyazaki's 2001 Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away, and the opening song is referenced in his 2008 film Ponyo. A Totoro plush makes an appearance in Pixar's Toy Story 3. Also, the episode of Samurai Jack entitled "Jack and the Creature" pays homage to this film. Volume 9 of the Gin Tama manga has a spoof of the film entitled "My Neighbor Pedro". Miyazaki also uses Totoro as a part of his Studio Ghibli company logo. My Neighbor Totoro is also parodied in the South Park episode "Mysterion Rises" in a couple of scenes where Cartman plays on the belly of the dark lord Cthulhu and later flies on the inderdimensional monster to the tune of the iconic end credits song from the film's soundtrack. Totoro has also had cameo appearances in various non-Japanese works, including on Comedy Central's Drawn Together and in the "Imaginationland" episodes of South Park as a background character, in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Brief Lives in which Delirium blows bubbles into a number of impossible shapes, including a Totoro holding an umbrella.
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Additionally, various other anime series and films have featured cameos, including one episode of the Gainax TV series His and Her Circumstances. Totoro has made cameo appearances in multiple Studio Ghibli films, including Pom Poko, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Whisper of the Heart. Paintings, illustrations, and sculptures inspired by My Neighbor Totoro.Ī main-belt asteroid was named 10160 Totoro after the film's central character Totoro. Inspired by Studio Ghibli and My Neighbor Totoro. The fund, started in 1990 after the film's release, held an auction inĪugust 2008 at Pixar Animation Studios to sell over 210 original Acorn Lantern Buddies, White Totoro & Soot Sprite White Totoro & Soot Sprites Collection Hard Enamel Pin. Preserve areas of satoyama in the Saitama Prefecture. Used as a mascot by the Japanese "Totoro Hometown Fund Campaign" to The environmental journal Ambio described the influence of My Neighbor Totoro, " has served as a powerful force to focus the positive feelings that the Japanese people have for satoyamaĪnd traditional village life." The film's central character Totoro was Magical creations." The Financial Times recognized the character's appeal, " is more genuinely loved than Mickey Mouse could hope to be in his wildest-not nearly so beautifully illustrated-fantasies." Their new house has tiny little soot sprites that crawl around and creep out the girls at first. The innocence and magic of childhood more than any of Miyazaki's other The main characters mother is sick in the hospital.
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