General "Did you Know?"s

[GameWizard001]

^I had just bought My Neighbor Totoro about a week, week 1/2 ago. I loved it. The sisters were not the typical little girls you see in film but very adventurous and playful. Wanting to discover new things outside and not afraid to either get dirty or go seeking after creepy things like the Dust Sprites. Or that the adults don't tell the kids that the magical things they are seeing isn't real, but that they are lucky to see them and encourages them to keep trying to see them since only children can.

I found it interesting that a movie without any antagonist would still be so enjoyable. It is a movie about 2 girls trying to adjust to a new home while their mother recovers from an illness and the girls worry for her.....oh and some strange Bear/Cat/Something forest spirit lives in the woods outside their house. I have yet to watch a movie Miyazaki makes that I don't enjoy.

Also fun fact: Lea Salonga who voiced the mother in this also did the singing voice for Princess Jasmine in Aladdin and also the singing voice for Mulan.