My Neighbour Totoro

http://i.imgur.com/ve61g1c.jpg

i recently showed this, the greatest movie ever made, to my 17-month-old daughter and she’s become obsessed with it and watches it over and over

which means i can no longer deny the obvious: the catbus has catballs

https://preview.redd.it/1tol6z5fj1k31.jpg?auto=webp&s=c154ba421d7fbe7f82d8f93790e6baab5728f7e1

If you haven't already seen it, urgently seek out Pom Poko for more on this Ghibli subtext.

what the hell

https://i.imgur.com/pINe2.gif

AKA Studio Ghibli's Chock Full 'o Nuts

Prominent scrotums are an integral part of tanuki folklore, and they are shown and referred to throughout the film, and also used frequently in their shape-shifting. This remains unchanged in the DVD release, though the English dub (but not the subtitles) refers to them as "raccoon pouches".

I can just imagine the brainstorming session.

the next time i watch ponyo i’m going to realise she’s actually a bollock aren’t i

those sad and beautiful stone robots in castle in the sky? they’re nutsacks, son, pure and simple

wikipedia used to have this:

It is a large creature, depicted as a grinning male[1] cat...

References
1. ^ab My Neighbor Totoro. Event occurs at 79-81m.

The Totoro and US Politics threads are on a similar vibe right now.

tbf I don't think anyone expected the president to just whip them out like that in public

oh no, my catbus soft toy is missing a feature

important tanuki balls news - there's even a nursery rhyme:
http://gailsensei.blogspot.com/2009/07/sometimes-japans-little-nuts.html

PS your daughter has excellent taste

i’m thrilled that nudging her to share my obsessions has paid off this well tbh

(maybe the swinging tanuki balls song is in Pom Poko, can't remember where I first heard of it, in which case apologies)

I just asked my wife to confirm that my daughter's catbus plush (purchased in Japan) has balls but she (Mrs. Brocolli) replied that it does not.

yeah, my wife got our daughter a plush catbus and totoro when she was in tokyo a few weeks ago and catbus has def been neutered

Has anyone seen the featurette short set in the Totoro world that screens occasionally at the Ghibli museum? I looked for a copy online but there only exists beyond hilariously low-def quality. You'd figure with those HD spyglasses someone would upload a better copy but this is all I could find:

Mei & the Kittenbus
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x68vr66

no but i showed my girl a picture of mei riding in kittenbus and she lost her shit with excitement

I have only seen the low-quality bootleg. To my knowledge it's only shown at the museum.

My niece was obsessed with the feature movie when she was 3-4 years old, especially the bus stop scene. Something about the movie really appeals to young children.

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/my-neighbor-totoro/
35mm on 1/13 and 1/16. One of the few ghiblis where i dont mind seeing the english dub.

Which dub?

the one i know is the one that was on the clamshell vcr tape. they did another one?

they did one in 2005 with dakota and elle fanning as satsuke and mei, which i assume is later than the vcr dub?

oh yeah, you're right. I have see the fanning dub; it's pretty good too!

a dub that was 100% a boombox recording of me repeatedly farting into a tin bucket would only slightly tarnish the magic of my neighbour totoro tbf

you're describing the kiki dub imo

When my kids were younger and "Rock the Casbah" came on the radio, they would sing the chorus as "Rock the Catcar."

with Basil Twist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1KvWZIpw_c