Studio Ghibli re-releases Hayao Miyazaki's original watercolor drawing My Neighbor Totoro

Studio Ghibli's beloved My Neighbor Totoro (1988) is arguably one of the most iconic films the company has ever produced. As a testament to the film's lasting legacy, Donguri Sora has reissued two sets of Totoro-themed postcards originally created for the Totoro “Homeland” foundation — an environmental conservation group based in Saitama prefecture of Japan.

Ghibli's official online store, Donguri Sora, recently added both sets of official My Neighbor Totoro “Merchandise Fund” postcards, all featuring adorable artwork of Totoro and the spirits. Other colorful nature spirits appear in the film. Notably, the sextet features stunning original watercolor images created by Totoro writer-director Hayao Miyazaki. Two of these cards honor two famous scenes — one in which Totoro plays a gentle melody on his ocarina, and another in which he takes protagonists Satsuki and Mei on a joyous flight midnight glow across the sky. The five-panel “Flowers” postcard collection has a unifying nature theme, often depicting Totoro and other characters in vibrant, foliage-filled settings. Including tax, each set costs a modest 550 yen ($3.51).

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Studio Ghibli's real-life conservation project has a connection to my neighbor Totoro

Nature conservation has always been a major theme of Ghibli co-founder Miyazaki. In April 1998, his studio established the Totoro no Furusato National Trust, which eventually became the Totoro Hometown Foundation. Both groups were founded to preserve and protect the Sayama Hills – a lush forest in the area that inspired Totoro's quaint rural setting. Just like the animated version, Sayama Hills includes lush forests, wetlands, and vast fields covered with rice paddies. By the time the Totoro Hometown Foundation officially launched in 1998, the organization had purchased a significant portion of the area through public donations. Today, the company continues to preserve the natural beauty of Sayama Hills for the benefit of future generations. Miyazaki's watercolor postcards were released to raise both money and public awareness of the group.

My Neighbor Totoro revolves around 10-year-old Satsuki and 4-year-old Mei, two sisters who move to a new house in the countryside to be closer to their hospitalized mother. While investigating their new home, they discover that it is filled with “sooty spirits” – shy spirits that often lurk in old, abandoned houses. This is just the first of many remarkable encounters that Mei and Satsuki have with the nature spirits that inhabit their new forest home. Besides Totoro, another famous symbol of the movie is Catbus – a large, multi-legged cat that serves as Totoro's means of transportation. The Catbus eventually inspired a Totoro sequel short film titled “Mei and the Baby Cat Bus,” produced exclusively for the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan.

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My Neighbor Totoro, in addition to the rest of Studio Ghibli's film collection, is available on Max for viewers in the US and Japan. Netflix already makes movies available to viewers in most other major territories, including Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Australia.