My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro has been one of Studio Ghibli’s most successful movies. The company logo itself featured Totoro from the movie. This movie was first release on April 1988 in Japan and was re-released by Disney on March 2006 with an English dub by a world-wide artist, Dakota and Elle Fanning as Satsuki and Mei (two main characters), Timothy Daly as Mr.Kusakabe (Satsuki and Mei’s father), Pat Caroll as Granny, Lea Salonga as Mrs. Kusakabe (Satsuki and Mei’s mom), and Frank Welker as Totoro and Catbus.

Totoro itself has some influences to some things like recently, this year a new species velvet worm was discovered in Vietnam and was named after Totoro, because there was a character called catbus in the movie which was a many-legged cat and resembles the velvet worm.

Totoro also appears in Toy Story 3 in the ending part when the theme song was sung.