Goodness, we love Totoro

Ever since I first saw it, years and years ago, I've been completely obsessed with My Neighbor Totoro. It's one of my all time favourite movies EVER. I love pretty much all of the Studio Ghibli movies but Totoro was the first one I'd ever seen and it was one the first movies made by Studio Ghibli over 20 years ago. I was happy to learn that the people of Japan and Okinawa are still beyond obsessed with Totoro today. They act as if it just came out yesterday. Everywhere I go there's something Totoro or any of the other characters from the movie. They find an excuse to put his face on almost everything. And every time I walk into a store that has Totoro things that I've never seen before, I have a complete heart attack.


All I had to do was type "Totoro" into google images and was amazed by how many Totoro things I found. I spent about 30 minutes looking at crazy pictures and choosing the craziest ones to put up here. Mostly Brittany and Kelly will appreciate this. Above me is a Cat bus car. I would happily get over my fear of driving just to have this car.

Totoro snowman. Of course.

Some artist that likes to draw anime characters all Simpson like did this. I think it's the single most amazing thing I've ever seen. But that's just me. I especially love Totoro and Mei's faces.

This made me laugh foreverrrrrrr. I love that they decided to dress up as a cat bus and just made it into a mask. It reminds me of something Kelly would do.

I've seen these toys and lots of other statues like it in alot of stores here. It's one of my favourite scenes from the movie.

This isn't my picture but I've actually seen this clock here! It was in this random old clock store that also had Disney clocks from the 80s. It was the most amazing store ever. And I never exaggerate.

Lego Totoro!

Even Hello Kitty sometimes gets beaten out by Totoro merchandise.

This is the Studio Ghibli symbol tattooed on the arm of someone way more obsessed than I am.

I don't even know what's going on here. All I know is that it's a big Totoro.

Bento box Totoro! If you don't know what bento boxes are and why they're so special here, then look it up. I'm too lazy to explain it right now.

I'm jealous. But I know a place not far away that would probably be able to do this to my nails. And the idea of that makes my little heart go pitter patter.

Hooray for Totoro cupcakes! If I attempted this I would surely fail miserably.

This is actually my picture. I took it at the store where I bought Britt's bday present not too long ago.

I took this yesterday at the Jusco bakery. I'm pretty sure they're supposed to be Totoro. What else could they be?? I didn't buy these because they looked kinda weird and I already had my tray full of lots of other tasties.

Now, when I say everyone is in love with the magic of Totoro here, I do mean EVERYONE. In January we went to the Nago Cherry Blossom Festival and a school marching band were playing the theme from the movie. You can watch it here:

And here we have a Japanese orchestra playing a medley of music from the movie:




And I'm convinced that every elementry school does this: