One rainy day, the girls are waiting for father's bus and grow worried when he does not arrive on the bus they expect him on.

Her father comforts her by telling her that this is the keeper of the forest, and that Totoro will reveal himself when he wants to. Despite her many attempts, Mei is unable to show her family Totoro's tree. She falls asleep atop the large totoro, but when Satsuki finds her, she is on the ground in a dense briar clearing. She meets and befriends a larger version of the same kind of spirit, which identifies itself by a series of roars that she interprets as Totoro. She discovers two small magical creatures who lead her through a briar patch and into the hollow of a large camphor tree. One day, Mei sees two white, rabbit-like ears in the grass and follows the ears under the house.

It is implied that they are going to find another empty house- their natural habitat.įile:Järnaborna känner Mei från Totoro.jpg When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits leave the house to drift away on the wind. Satsuki and Mei find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called Sootballs - small, dark, dust-like house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. In 1958 Japan, university professor Tatsuo Kusakabe and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, move into an old house to be closer to the hospital where their mother Yasuko is recovering from a long-term illness.

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