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My Neighbor Totoro1988

This statement began to spread around February 2007. In fact, there are many settings and stories in the animation Totoro. It's up to the individual. There are many versions that everyone speculates, one of which is that the two sisters actually died in the middle of the story, and then the father imagined that if the two sisters were alive, the story should be like this, and the novel written by the father in the animation is this” My Neighbor Totoro" manuscript. 
 

First of all, in fact, Totoro is the god of death, the messenger of the underworld, and anyone who encounters Totoro will die soon or immediately. Then, the blueprint of the Qiguoshan Hospital where the mother was admitted to the hospital in the story, the Bakuoshan Hospital actually exists. If you check it on the Internet, you can find that this hospital mainly accommodates terminally ill and mentally ill patients. During the story, the younger sister Satsuki found her slippers in the pool when she disappeared. In fact, the younger sister had drowned in the pool at that time. When the older sister Gaoyue saw her sister’s slippers, she dared not face the reality, so she said "this It's not Satsuki..." lie. And after the scene of the slippers in the pool, the two sisters appeared without a shadow, and then came to the place where they met Totoro in order to find Satsuki
 

"Please...let me See My Neighbor Totoro"
"My Neighbor Totoro, Satsuki is lost
I can't find her after searching
Please help me find Satsuki!! Now...he must be crying somewhere...
What should I do?"
“It turns out that everyone can't see...”
 

After this series of lines, sister Satsuki opened the gate of the underworld by herself. The Totoro bus that came to carry the soul took the elder sister Satsuki to the younger sister's place. And the scene where the mother was in the hospital at the end "Now, in that tree, I seem to feel that Satsuki and Satsuki are smiling there." , I don’t know if only the mother seemed to see the two of them. Why did the two of them not meet their mother when they were nearby, but put corn with a message? In fact, both of them died at that time. There is a saying that it is the Japanese homophony of corn, Just happens to be very similar to "Killing Children". (どうもろこし (corn) こどもころし (killing children)) 
 

After Satsuki disappeared, Satsuki disappeared.

The last scene made everyone younger, but that was not the case It's not a story after the event, but the scene before it was made to look like a happy end.

The stage of the whole Totoro story is Tokorozawa in Saitama Prefecture, Japan

In Tokorozawa In the Showa 60s, there was a Sayama incident where a pair of sisters were tortured and killed.My Neighbor Totoro is based on this Sayama incident

The names of the two sisters: 
Sister Gaoyue (satuki) = May in Japanese
Satuski= May = May in English
(Both of these dictionaries can be found)

And the Sayama incident happened on May 1st.
 

First, my sister disappeared, and Witnessed her sister looking for her sister in a panic, the next day her sister was found in the forest and killed with 16 knives, and her sister was hit hard. When she made a statement to the police, she said a bunch of "cat monsters" I saw a big civet cat monster" and so on, the meaning is unclear, and the mother has died of illness and is a single-parent family, etc., and the story of Totoro has a lot in common

When this saying was first spread, I heard Said that someone called Giblin to ask about it, and the Giblin staff just admitted it with a smile. And recently, as soon as the news spread, Giblin received a lot of inquiries, "Is Totoro the God of Death?" It was announced above: there is no shadow because it is judged that there is no need for shadows in the painting of this place, so there is no painting.
 

I think the two should be related, but This will never affect my good impression of Totoro. It just lets us know that there is such a tragic story behind this beautiful story. Maybe Hayao Miyazaki's original intention is to let us get rid of the dark realm and remember their innocence, kindness and beauty in the images of the two little girls. 
Let life go on. 

The inside story has been exposed, so it is not bad for everyone to pay attention to these details when watching Totoro. This also makes me admire the profound skills of the old man Hayao Miyazaki.